Abstract
Direct manipulation, which is the dominating “interaction style” for mobile computers, fails to meet the conditions of many mobile use situations. In particular, it demands too much visual attention of the user. We introduce a new, complementing interaction style (and system) for mobile computers, called MOTILE, which addresses three main requirements of interaction with mobile computers: (1) no visual attention needed; (2) structured, tactile input, and; (3) the use of audio feedback. MOTILE relies on only 4 buttons for user input and “hands free” audio for feedback.
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The Mobile Informatics research program of the Swedish Information Technology Institute (SITI), and the MoBEE project with grants from the Research Council of Norway funded this research.
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Kristoffersen, S., Ljungberg, F. (1999). Designing Interaction Styles for a Mobile Use Context. In: Gellersen, HW. (eds) Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing. HUC 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1707. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48157-5_26
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