RECON: capturing mobile and ubiquitous interaction in real contexts

  • Authors:
  • Kasper Løvborg Jensen

  • Affiliations:
  • Aalborg University, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Evaluating the user experience of mobile and ubiquitous applications is a challenging task. They are becoming increasingly complex and tightly interwoven into the fabric of everyday life and thus cannot easily be taken out of context and evaluated in controlled experimental environments. Methods for studying the user experience of such applications in the field tend to be cumbersome and expensive with regard to time and manpower, and they generally do not scale well with number of users and duration of studies. RECON addresses these challenges and provides an addition to the methodological and practical toolbox from which researchers and practitioners can draw when conducting field experiments. It facilitates automated capture of general usage and application specific interaction augmented with information about the context in which it occurs. RECON enables researchers and practitioners to conduct large scale remote studies of mobile and ubiquitous applications in real contexts.