A mobile tool for in-situ prototyping

Sá, Marco de; Carriço, Luís

doi:10.1145/1613858.1613884

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“…Research Methods that rely on data collection from participants in situ, while their daily lives unfold, are seeing wide adoption from researchers in a variety of different fields, ranging from clinical psychology [16] to human computer interaction [7]. Methods to do so include diaries, where participants are instructed to log events, as well as the Experience Sampling Method [15] and its variants.…”

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Considerations for computerized in situ data collection platforms

Batalas

Markopoulos

2012

Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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Computerized tools for in-situ data collection from study participants have proven invaluable in many diverse fields. The platforms developed within academic settings, eventually tend to find themselves abandoned and obsolete. Newer tools are susceptible to meeting a similar fate. We believe this is because, although most of the tools try to satisfy the same functional requirements, little attention has been paid to their development models also keeping in line. In this paper we propose an architectural model, which satisfies established requirements and also promotes extensibility, interoperability and cross-platform functionality between tools. In doing so, we aim to introduce development considerations into the larger discussion on the design of such platforms.

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Considerations for computerized in situ data collection platforms

Batalas

Markopoulos

2012

Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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“…In contrast, high-fidelity prototypes improve the testing experience and the quality of the evaluation results [8,16], but increase the costs and the time needed for creating them [5].…”

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Building interactive prototypes of mobile user interfaces with a digital pen

Holzmann

Vogler

2012

Proceedings of the 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction

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Paper prototyping is commonly used to identify usability problems in the early stages of user interface design, but it is not very well suited for the evaluation of mobile interfaces. The reason is that mobile applications are used in a rich realworld context, which is hard to emulate with a paper prototype. A more powerful technique is to test the design on a mobile device, but building a functional design prototype requires much more effort. In this paper, we try to get the best of both worlds by building interactive prototypes with a digital pen. We developed a system which allows for sketching a user interface on paper and manually associating the interface elements with functionality. This enables designers to bring their design ideas to paper without any restrictions, define the meaning of selected interface elements, and test them on a mobile device instantaneously. We conducted a user study in which the participants had to design and test a small application with our system. The results provide evidence for the feasibility and positive aspects of our approach, but also showed some limitations and missing functionalities of its current implementation.

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“…Other approaches focusing on providing building environments for rapid mockups and prototypes (e.g., DENIM [4], SILK [3], Sketch Wizard [1], POP 4 ) usually lack the support of multi-touch gestures in addition to lacking multiple platform support. In contrast, de Sa and Carrico [2] provide a promising approach for in-situ prototyping that particularly enables rapid prototyping. Unfortunately, the prototypes need to be drawn directly in the tool and there is no support of standardized screen transitions and interaction elements so far.…”

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“…Looking at the challenges of current mobile environments, it is desirable to have interactive mockups, which should run on mobile devices and be used in the actual usage context [2] while properly providing the underlying interaction schema. Moreover, these mockups should allow in-situ evaluation in order to get early feedback in the design and development stages.…”

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i2ME

Humayoun

Hess

Kiefer³

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Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices and Services

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Providing interactive mockups of mobile applications in designing phases introduces new challenges for interaction designers compared to the traditional way of static mockups. In particular, the complexity of this process increases when it comes to enabling the user to actually explore the intended user experience of the mobile environment by enhancing traditional handmade sketches or tool-generated wireframes with concrete mobile interaction elements. We introduce a framework, called i2ME (interactive Mockup-Building for Mobile Environment), for building interactive mockups with concrete mobile interaction elements. The framework enhances the static mockups (handmade or tool-generated) with screen transitions and multi-touch gestures, and enables the deployment of the resulting HTML5+JavaScript based interactive mockups to multiple platforms and device classes.

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A mobile tool for in-situ prototyping

Cited by 19 publications

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Considerations for computerized in situ data collection platforms

Considerations for computerized in situ data collection platforms

Building interactive prototypes of mobile user interfaces with a digital pen

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