The invisible computer
interactions
Reflections: did convergence kill the clock?
interactions
Uncovering the new wireless interaction paradigm
interactions
The invisible future
Information Appliances and Beyond
Information Appliances and Beyond
Mobile Usability: How Nokia Changed the Face of the Cellular Phone
Mobile Usability: How Nokia Changed the Face of the Cellular Phone
Mediating intimacy: designing technologies to support strong-tie relationships
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Mobile technologies in mobile spaces: Findings from the context of train travel
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
A study for usability risk level in physical user interface of mobile phone
UI-HCII'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Usability and internationalization
Usability risk level evaluation for physical user interface of mobile phone
Computers in Industry
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
The last decade has seen convergence marketed as one response to the challenge of users having to juggle an increasingly wide array of digital services, technologies and media. Key to this view is the assumption that by converging computer devices, and digital media, the value of technology for end users can be maximised whilst the overheads involved in purchasing, maintaining and orchestrating a variety of different technology solutions can be minimised. In contrast however, some authors have argued that convergence creates weak-general solutions, and rather we should be aiming for strong-specific technology by means of the deliberate design of multiple diverged devices. This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion of convergence and divergence. We discuss three apparently irreconcilable perspectives on the relationship between functionality and usability, and show that they are in fact complementary views of convergence. To ground this discussion we draw on the results of a recent cultural probes study of a cohort of early adopters of converged devices.