Designing for context: usability in a ubiquitous environment

  • Authors:
  • Jenna Burrell;Paul Treadwell;Geri K. Gay

  • Affiliations:
  • Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY;Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY;Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

  • Venue:
  • CUU '00 Proceedings on the 2000 conference on Universal Usability
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Freeing users from the desktop is now a practical reality in many environments. The implications for mobility are both far-reaching and under-realized in many of the current scenarios we have seen. Our work has focused on the integration of user input into the iterative design process used to develop a contextually aware application for use in an educational environment. We discuss the design and development of Semaphore, a contextually aware tool for use in wireless networked environments, and the unique opportunities an iterative design process presents for our work.