Handheld devices for cooperative educational activities

Sá, Marco de; Carriço, Luís

doi:10.1145/1141277.1141549

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“…The goal was to provide students with tutorials, educational artifacts and assessment tools that could be used while at school, at home or ubiquitously. The application targeted handheld devices such as PDAs or SmartPhones [19].…”

Section: Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lessons from early stages design of mobile applications

Sá¹,

Carriço²

2008

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices and Services

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This paper presents a set of lessons that resulted from the design process of several mobile applications. It starts by addressing the difficulties that emerged through the data gathering, prototyping and evaluation stages also stressing the absence of adequate techniques and methods to support these activities. We explain how these problems and challenges were solved and how they can be applied in other domains and future projects. As a result, we provide a set of guidelines for designers to apply on the development and design of mobile applications and user interfaces. The paper also addresses three case studies in which these guidelines and procedures were validated, stressing their contributions and results.

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Section: Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lessons from early stages design of mobile applications

Sá¹,

Carriço²

2008

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices and Services

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“…On the first, psychotherapy, we developed low and high-fidelity prototypes for several therapeutic tools [3]. On the second, education, teachers used the framework to create different elaborated prototypes [22].…”

Section: Case Studiesmentioning

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A mixed-fidelity prototyping tool for mobile devices

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Carriço²,

Duarte³

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Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

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In this paper we present a software framework which supports the construction of mixed-fidelity (from sketch-based to software) prototypes for mobile devices. The framework is available for desktop computers and mobile devices (e.g., PDAs, Smartphones). It operates with low-fidelity sketch based prototypes or mid to high-fidelity prototypes with some range of functionality, providing several dimensions of customization (e.g., visual components, audio/video files, navigation, behavior) and targeting specific usability concerns. Furthermore, it allows designers and users to test the prototypes on actual devices, gathering usage information, both passively (e.g., logging) and actively (e.g., questionnaires/Experience Sampling). Overall, it conveys common prototyping procedures with effective data gathering methods that can be used on ubiquitous scenarios supporting in-situ prototyping and participatory design on-the-go. We address the framework's features and its contributions to the design and evaluation of applications for mobile devices and the field of mobile interaction design, presenting real-life case studies and results.

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“…Throughout various experiences, on mobile design, the application of these techniques, suggested by the used UCD methodologies, posed problems and proved to be inadequate to some of the settings and activities that were being addressed. On pervasive and mobile activities as those that were targeted on the projects at hands (e.g., thought registration and activity scheduling during user's daily lives, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, homework), these data gathering techniques failed to provide sufficient detail and reliable data for designers to use (Sá & Carriço, 2006). Globally, these difficulties pointed the need for adjusted and more flexible means and techniques do gather data and analyse requirements on mobile and ubiquitous settings, especially for pervasive activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The few examples available in literature apply common techniques with no particular emphasis on the specific characteristics of the devices and their interaction. Recently, research directed to this stage of design, applied to mobile devices (Hanington, 2006;Holmquist, 2005;Weiss, 2005) including some of the experiences that originated this work (Sá & Carriço, 2006) has addressed these issues. Given mobile devices' portability and adequateness to intensive usage and their physical characteristics and peculiar interaction modalities, the distinction between the device and the UI, although rarely addressed and implemented, seems to be crucial to take into account while creating mobile low-fidelity prototypes.…”

Section: Prototypingmentioning

confidence: 99%