Customizing User Interaction in Smart Phones

  • Authors:
  • Panu Korpipaa;Esko-Juhani Malm;Tapani Rantakokko;Vesa Kyllonen;Juha Kela;Jani Mantyjarvi;Jonna Hakkila;Ilkka Kansala

  • Affiliations:
  • Technical Research Centre of Finland;Technical Research Centre of Finland;Technical Research Centre of Finland;Technical Research Centre of Finland;Technical Research Centre of Finland;Technical Research Centre of Finland;Nokia Multimedia;Avantone

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

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Abstract

Emerging input modalities could facilitate more efficient user interactions with mobile devices. An end-user customization tool based on user-defined context-action rules lets users specify personal, multimodal interaction with smart phones and external appliances. The tool's input modalities include sensor-based, user-trainable free-form gestures; pointing with radio frequency tags; and implicit inputs based on such things as sensors, the Bluetooth environment, and phone platform events. The tool enables user-defined functionality through a blackboard-based context framework enhanced to manage the rule-based application control. Test results on a prototype implemented on a smart phone with real context sources show that rule-based customization helps end users efficiently customize their smart phones and use novel input modalities.