CN17: Mobile Interaction Design

Wednesday, 8 April 2009, 9:00

2 units

Instructors

Matt Jones, University of Wales, Swansea

Audience and Benefits

• For developers and designers: the course will give challenging, fresh perspectives on the goals of and approaches to mobile interaction design.
• For industrial and academic researchers: the course will provide provoking questions about the form and function of effective mobile user experiences.
• For students: people engaged in graduate studies in the mobile area will benefit from seeing the "bigger picture". The design methods and perspectives presented will provide useful tools for anyone involved in developing concept and prototype systems.
• For mobile business and marketing analysts and strategists: the course will offer an interesting analysis to help explain previous hits and flops as well as pointing the way for successful future innovation.

Origins

Fully updated for CHI 2009. Course materials presented previously at CHI 2008, CHI 2007, Mobile HCI 2005 and other venues. Material developed over several years in conjunction with the instructors' book (Mobile Interaction Design, John Wiley & Sons, 2006).

Features

FEATURES

• An exploration of mobile design philosophies, principles and perspectives
• A review of interface and interaction technologies available to mobile developers (from visual displays to haptic output)
• An Exploration of notions of 'use', 'usefulness' and 'user experience' in the mobile context
• Critiques of existing mobile concepts, prototypes and services
• A survey and evaluation of methods and tools for mobile interaction design

Presentation

interactive lectures and case-studies.

Instructors' background

Matt Jones is a Reader at the Computer Science Dept, University of Wales Swansea and currently Visiting Fellow at Nokia Research in Finland. An active researcher in the field, he is an editor of the International Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing and on the steering committee for the Mobile HCI conference series. He is the co-author (with Gary) of Mobile Interaction Design (John Wiley & Sons, 2006).
http://www.undofuture.com

Gary Marsden is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He is the Interactions Magazine 'Developing World' editor and was awarded the ACM SigCHI Social Impact Award in 2007. Besides his academic interests in designing interaction for mobile computers, a large part of his time is spent in examining how mobile computers can be used for upliftment in the developing world.
http://www.hciguy.net