Living for the Global City: Mobile Kits, Urban Interfaces, and Ubicomp

Mainwaring, Scott D.; Anderson, Ken; Chang, Michele

doi:10.1007/11551201_16

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“…Mainwaring et al [8] conducted an ethnographic study across three major cities to examine the personal connection between the items that people carried and how these items were used in their daily context with surrounding people and interfaces. Items were classified into various categories such as those which distracted the user from the environment (music players, phones and books), personal belongings (wallets, keys, make-up) and professional tools (laptop, PDAs).…”

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The Impact of Encumbrance on Mobile Interactions

Brewster

Williamson

2013

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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Abstract. This paper investigates the effects of encumbrance (holding different types of objects while using mobile devices) to understand the interaction difficulties that it causes. An experiment was conducted where participants performed a target acquisition task on a touchscreen mobile phone while carrying different types of bags and boxes. Mobility was also evaluated since people carry items from one place to another. Motion capture hardware was used to track hand and arm postures to examine how holding the different types of objects caused excessive movement and instability therefore resulting in performance to decline. The results showed encumbrance and mobility caused target accuracy to decrease although input while holding the box under the non-dominant arm was more accurate and exerted quicker targeting times than holding no objects. Encumbrance affected the dominant hand more than the non-dominant hand as targeting error significantly increased and caused greater hand instability. The issues caused by encumbrance suggest the topic requires more attention from researchers and users would benefit greatly if better interaction techniques and applications are developed to counteract the problems.

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The Impact of Encumbrance on Mobile Interactions

Brewster

Williamson

2013

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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“…As Mainwaring et al (2005) emphasize, daily life in the developed world now exposes us to a multitude of physical and informational infrastructures, each of which requires some kind of token to mediate. Simply to get through the day, we carry keys, cash, credit cards, debit cards, transit passes, parking receipts, library cards, loyalty programme cards and so on, and the list is anything but comprehensive.…”

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Some guidelines for the ethical development of ubiquitous computing

Greenfield¹

2008

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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At a time when both the landscape of everyday life and the choices available to us there are increasingly conditioned by ubiquitous information processing systems, it seems wise to articulate some general principles guiding their ethical design and deployment. I here enunciate five broad guidelines for the designers of such systems, including recommendations that they be devised in such a way as to default to harmlessness , be conservative of time , be conservative of face , be self-disclosing and be deniable . I conclude with some observations about the likelihood of any such principles winning usefully widespread voluntary adherence.

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“…Moreover, no attempt has been made to generalise them so that we could, for example, compare a class of behaviours in different settings. Mainwaring et al [2005] studied "urbanites" in three major cities as somehow representative and thus a basis for comparing them. While this informal study gives a flavour of aspects of city life in different places, we aim to develop a basis for more systematic comparisons.…”

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Instrumenting the City: Developing Methods for Observing and Understanding the Digital Cityscape

O’Neill

Kostakos

Kindberg

et al. 2006

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. We approach the design of ubiquitous computing systems in the urban environment as integral to urban design. To understand the city as a system encompassing physical and digital forms and their relationships with people's behaviours, we are developing, applying and refining methods of observing, recording, modelling and analysing the city, physically, digitally and socially. We draw on established methods used in the space syntax approach to urban design. Here we describe how we have combined scanning for discoverable Bluetooth devices with two such methods, gatecounts and static snapshots. We report our experiences in developing, field testing and refining these augmented methods. We present initial findings on the Bluetooth landscape in a city in terms of patterns of Bluetooth presence and Bluetooth naming practices.

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Living for the Global City: Mobile Kits, Urban Interfaces, and Ubicomp

Cited by 43 publications

References 21 publications

The Impact of Encumbrance on Mobile Interactions

The Impact of Encumbrance on Mobile Interactions

Some guidelines for the ethical development of ubiquitous computing

Instrumenting the City: Developing Methods for Observing and Understanding the Digital Cityscape

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