Understanding Mobile Contexts

Tamminen, Sakari; Oulasvirta, Antti; Toiskallio, Kalle; Kankainen, A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-45233-1_3

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“…Mobile, urban contexts are very different from indoor con texts such as offices and meeting rooms, and involve various spatial and temporal patterns of activities (e.g., hurrying, wait ing, and sidestepping) [16]. To design mobile crowdsourcing environments that motivate participation, it is important to ask people in the right way as wall as at the right time and at the right place.…”

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A context-aware approach to microtasking in a public transport environment

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Ohno

Sasao

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Communications and Electronics (ICCE)

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Despite the pervasiveness of smart devices, mean ingful data cannot be collected easily without an effective platform that meshes with human activities. In this paper, we explore the design space for mobile applications that recommend microtasks in public spaces. In particular, we take a close look at a public transportation environment and suggest some of the contexts in which microtask requests could be embedded. We then discuss a context-aware approach to microtasking in a city, as well as its implications for citizens.

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Section: B Studies On Mobile Context and Crowdsourcingmentioning

confidence: 99%

A context-aware approach to microtasking in a public transport environment

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Ohno

Sasao

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Communications and Electronics (ICCE)

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“…Central to achieving efficient, effective and satisfying product solutions is an understanding of the context within which product use takes place [7]. However the sheer variety of contexts experienced by mobile product users makes it very difficult to capture context in a form useful for informing product design [12]. In order to articulate context in a meaningful way, this paper uses the concept of mobility to explore how contextual factors shape current use of mobile ICT within the construction industry.…”

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Using mobility as a conceptual framework for informing the design of mobile ICT for construction professionals

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Bowden

et al. 2006

Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Human-Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices and Services

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“…The dynamic nature of clinical work, however, presents new challenges with regard to usability evaluations of future solutions. Recent studies suggest that in order to assess the usability of applications and systems supporting mobile users, the design solutions must be evaluated in realistic use situations [3][4][5]. When evaluating mobile ICT for hospitals, this means that aspects that are characteristic for clinical work, such as nomadic use, interaction between clinicians and patients, and frequent context shifts must be reflected in the setting in which the evaluation takes place.…”

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Toward a best practice for laboratory-based usability evaluations of mobile ICT for hospitals

Alsos

Dahl

2008

Proceedings of the 5th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Building Bridges

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The dynamic nature of clinical work makes it challenging to assess the usability of mobile information and communication technology (ICT) for hospitals. To achieve some of the realism of field evaluations, combined with the control of laboratory-based evaluations, we have conducted usability tests of prototypes in a laboratory custom designed as a full-scale ward section. Nurses and physicians acting out simulated clinical scenarios have used the prototypes. This paper reports on the general methodological lessons learned from three such formative usability evaluations. We have learned that the physical test environment, the test scenarios, and the prototypes form three variables that need to reflect a sufficient amount of realism and concreteness in order to help generate valid test results. At the same time, these variables are tools that can help control and focus the evaluation on specific issues that one wants to gather data on. We have also learned that encouraging reflection among participants and using detailed multi-perspective recordings of usage can help form a more precise understanding of how mobile ICT can accommodate clinical work.The current paper aims to inform work toward a best practice for laboratory-based evaluations of mobile ICT for hospitals.

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Understanding Mobile Contexts

Cited by 34 publications

References 12 publications

A context-aware approach to microtasking in a public transport environment

A context-aware approach to microtasking in a public transport environment

Using mobility as a conceptual framework for informing the design of mobile ICT for construction professionals

Toward a best practice for laboratory-based usability evaluations of mobile ICT for hospitals

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