Addressing the Context of Use in Mobile Computing: a Survey on the State of the Practice

Integration of Mobile Learning and Project-Based Learning in Improving Vocational School Competence

“…These findings indicate that device devices to access information and communication technology services are available and adequate (Foley & Reveles, 2014). Android applications are preferred by students to access the internet than web applications, students like the android application (Eshet & Bouwman, 2014). These findings state that mobile learning applications can be implemented in the learning process in the department of computer and network engineering.…”

Three is a crowd? Our experience of testing large-scale social software in a usability lab

“…Early system and concept testing is a core part of user centred design (Rogers et al 2007). It is also apparent that context is (or may be) an important element in system testing of all kinds (Kjeldskov et al 2004;Greifeneder 2011;Eshet et al 2014); the concept of living labs, for example, is based entirely in the value of context (Bergvall-Kareborn et al 2009). These two demands are often in competition: to test early requires relatively simple, inexpensive testing; in contrast contextual testing requires time and effort (Kjeldskov et al 2003;Eshet et al 2014).…”

“…This contrasts sharply with a non-mobile comparison of remote and labbased user testing (Greifeneder 2011), which shows that remote user testing gets results that are at odds with labbased testing. Whatever the advantages and disadvantages, lab-based testing is more common than field-based testing even for context-aware mobile systems, probably due to cost and difficulty gathering field-based data (Kjeldskov et al 2003;Eshet et al 2014).…”

The role of organizational strategy in the user-centered design of mobile applications

“…The new mobile era, labeled the "mobile apps era" (Eshet & Bouwman, 2015), introduces challenges to the UCD practice of mobile interactive systems (i.e., mobile applications), specifically regarding designers' effort to gain relevant insights on users and their use contexts. In contrast to the typically single use context in stationary computing (e.g., desktop and Web applications), mobile computing devices such as smartphones feature multiple use contexts (Henfridsson & Lindgren, 2005).…”

“…Lastly, application stores such as those that Apple and Google provide have democratized the development and distribution of mobile applications, which has resulted in an increasingly competitive and dynamic mobile market (Bergvall-Kåreborn & Howcroft, 2011). Moreover, developers have increasingly begun to adopt agile approaches to design and develop mobile applications (Eshet & Bouwman, 2015), though the agile principle on short system-delivery cycles limits the time one has to understand users (Seffah, Desmarais, & Metzker, 2005). Given the competitive pressures and resource constraints for UCD practice, effectively and efficiently using user and context data becomes more strategically important.…”