Designing Interaction Styles for a Mobile Use Context

  • Authors:
  • Steinar Kristoffersen;Fredrik Ljungberg

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • HUC '99 Proceedings of the 1st international symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Direct manipulation, which is the dominating "interaction style" for mobile computers, fails to meet the conditions of many mobile use situations. In particular, it demands too much visual attention of the user. We introduce a new, complementing interaction style (and system) for mobile computers, called MOTILE, which addresses three main requirements of interaction with mobile computers: (1) no visual attention needed; (2) structured, tactile input, and; (3) the use of audio feedback. MOTILE relies on only 4 buttons for user input and "hands free" audio for feedback.