The Smart Phone: A Ubiquitous Input Device

  • Authors:
  • Rafael Ballagas;Jan Borchers;Michael Rohs;Jennifer G. Sheridan

  • Affiliations:
  • RWTH Aachen University;RWTH Aachen University;Swiss Federal Institute of Technology;Lancaster University

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Pervasive Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Smart phones provide a rich set of tools that let users control and interact with their environments. Because these feature-packed mobile phones are pervasive, they might become the default physical interface for ubiquitous computing applications, providing the foundation for new interaction paradigms. A brief tour illustrates the technologies currently available for using the smart phone as an input device. The overview structures existing interaction techniques in a preliminary design space that helps identify the range of existing techniques as well as key design considerations for deploying these interaction techniques in real-world applications. Such an analysis can help inspire applications beginning to use these technologies and inform the design of future smart phone interaction techniques.