The new usability: the challenge of designing for pervasive computing

Authors:
Peter Thomas;Harold Thimbleby
Affiliations:
UCLIC, University College London Interaction Centre, 26, Bedford Way, LONDON, WC1H 0AP;UCLIC, University College London Interaction Centre, 26, Bedford Way, LONDON, WC1H 0AP
Venue:
ICCC '02 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Computer communication
Year:
2002

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Abstract

This paper proposes the idea of new usability. It suggests that a radically new approach is required to address usability for emerging technologies. The paper suggests that new usability must emerge from a fundamental reassessment of existing methods, theories and tools to arrive at an approach that is suitable to a dynamic environment characterised by dramatically shortened product timescales, immense growth centred around the explosion of digital media content, a move toward mass consumer markets, pervasive access to information and communications and the global digital trading of knowledge-based products and services.