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Micro-interactions with NFC-Enabled Mobile Phones

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This paper coins the term micro-interactions to refer to the class of small exchanges between devices that occur almost instantaneously. For example, a mobile payment using near-field communication (NFC) is a micro-interaction. The arrival of NFC on smart phones makes possible a wide array of applications using micro-interactions, from sharing photos between a phone and a TV to checking a car into a valet parking service by touching two phones.

This paper addresses the challenge of how to create intuitive, frictionless micro-interactions that require no pre-configuration for a large class of applications. We deliver a consistent tap-and-share interface for many forms of micro-interactions through several concepts. We propose interaction manifests as universal descriptors of multi-party, cross-platform applications. Zero-click overheads are made possible by automatically using the foreground application as the context for the micro-interactions. We extend the concept of connection handovers to allow NFC-enabled applications to run unmodified on devices lacking NFC. We also show how these abstractions make it easy to create a variety of applications. All the application and library code is available as open source.

We demonstrate that by focusing on micro-interactions, our mobile phones can provide a single focal point that enables sharing of our digital identity, assets, applications, and personality with friends (with their mobile phones) as well as the larger-screen PCs and TVs all around us.

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    Ben Dodson & Monica S. Lam

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Dodson, B., Lam, M.S. (2012). Micro-interactions with NFC-Enabled Mobile Phones. In: Zhang, J.Y., Wilkiewicz, J., Nahapetian, A. (eds) Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services. MobiCASE 2011. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 95. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32320-1_9

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