Mobile Interaction Design

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Wiley, Jun 14, 2006 - Computers - 400 pages
Advanced new generation mobile devices - smart phones - and services will be widely available within the next year or so, and there will be lots of hype, some successes, and lots of user disappointment. This book is about catering to the everyday needs people have; about shifting the design perspective away from the technology and to concentrate on usability; in other words, developing interfaces and devices with a great deal of sensitivity to human needs, desires and capabilities. The book is written to inspire and challenge designers preconceived notions of this marketplace and to convey lessons learnt, and principles involved, in the development and deployment of interactive systems to the mobile environment.

About the author (2006)

Matt Jones has been working on novel, emerging interactive technologies for the past 12 years. He is a member of the British Computer Society Ethics Committee, IFIP Social Accountability Committee and is editing an ACM ToCHI journal special issue on social issues. Matt has written for popular magazines (including Wired) and newspapers, broadcast for the BBC and had work on mobile interaction exhibited in the National Science Museum of the UK.

Gary Marsden has a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction and is associate professor at the University of Cape Town. He has taught several undergraduate and postgraduate courses on interface design and consults privately with various companies such as Orange and Reuters on mobile computing interface design issues.

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