Mobile HCI
Amit Singh Yadav

1876!
Graham Bell’s!
Telephone
1896!
Telephones that!
became rarely popular!
in countries like Swedenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e522NK7gcM
http://www.arctos.com/dial/
1930s!
Rotary Dial!
Telephones

1963!
Touch tone!
telephones
1979!
Sony Walkman TPS L2!
1983!
Motorola DynaTAC !
8000X

1996!
Nokia 8110!
(Popularised in Matrix)!
2001!
iPod!
2007!
iPhone

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/the-evolution-of-cell-phone-design-between-1983-2009/

Currently, 4.55 billion!
mobile phone users !
and 1.75 billion!
smartphone users!

Seven waves of Mobile Computing
Portability!
Miniaturisation!
Connectivity!
Convergence!
Divergence!
Apps!
Digital Ecosystem

Distinctive features of Mobile Interactions
Limited Input - Output capabilities (Keyboard, Screen,
Processing Power etc.)!
Context has much deeper effect on mobile interaction!
Human Factors !
• Information about the user
• User’s social environment
• User’s tasks (current activity, goals, etc.)
Physical Environment !
• Location
• Infrastructure
• Physical conditions

References!
• Kjeldskov, Jesper (2013): Mobile Computing. In: Soegaard, Mads and Dam, Rikke Friis (eds.). "The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer
Interaction, 2nd Ed.". Aarhus, Denmark: The Interaction Design Foundation. Available online at http://www.interaction-design.org/
encyclopedia/mobile_computing.html
• Chittaro L. Distinctive aspects of mobile interaction and their implications for the design of multimodal interfaces. Journal on
Multimodal User Interfaces 3, 3 (2010), 157-165.
• Chittaro, Luca “Designing Visual User Interfaces for Mobile Applications”. Available at dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=199655
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-interface/
• Marcus, Aaaron “Mobile User-Experience Design Trends”
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