InEar BioFeedController: a headset for hands-free and eyes-free interaction with mobile devices
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Neither desktop computers nor the hundred-dollar laptop are the new mass computation platform of this world - mobile phones are. 4 Billion of them. So how come we still use PCs? Mobile devices have a major limitation: mobility requires smallness. Initially, miniaturization of hardware drove miniaturization at a fast pace, but limitations are not primarily technical anymore: today, it is almost exclusively human factors. Screens need to be large enough to be seen, keyboards large enough to be typed on. These factors, however, are practically invariant. In this presentation, I take a closer look at the research that emerges from the tension between the desire to perform complex tasks and the desire for mobility. Is it possible for mobile users to perform those complex tasks that today's users still perform on "large screen" desktop computers? What range of applications can we adapt by visually compressing them? What applications resist such an adaptation and why? In the second half of the talk, I am trying to look into the future of mobile device hardware, devices ten times smaller than today's devices.