Designing Software for the Mobile Context

A Practitioner’s Guide

Buch | Softcover

152 Seiten

2004 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Springer London Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85233-785-8 (ISBN)

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Roman Longoria The goal of this book is to provide a useful and timely guide to the practitioner who designs or develops mobile applications. The contributors to this book are leaders in the user interface (UI) community actively working in mobile platform technol ogy and mobile application design. Thus, this book offers the reader unique insight into the latest technologies, market trends, design ideas, and usability data. We provide the reader with the latest information that will have direct and immediate impact on a broad scope of product design decisions, including those for voice, phone, and personal digital assistant (PDA) applications. In other words, this book is written by practitioners, for practitioners. When I approached my coauthors about writing a chapter, I had only a few criteria. First, each author should have unique experience and expertise about a certain aspect of mobile applications. Second, that the authors be able to provide an introduction to the technologies with which they work. Third, that each chapter include case studies and lessons learned from empirical usability evaluations. And fourth, that each author include in the chapter some fundamental knowledge that they wish they had known when they got started designing for the mobile context.

1 Designing Applications for 3G Mobile Devices.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 The Designer’s Role.- 1.3 Understanding the Industry.- 1.4 Understanding the User.- 1.5 Understanding the Technology.- 1.6 Understanding Devices.- 1.7 User Interface Elements.- 1.8 When and What to Use (Markup, Native OS, or Messaging).- 1.9 Tips.- 1.10 Outtakes from Usability Testing.- 1.11 References.- 2 Designing Voice Applications.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Requirements Definition.- 2.3 High-Level Design.- 2.4 Detailed Design.- 2.5 Production.- 2.6 Tuning and Validation.- 2.7 Case Studies.- 2.8 Guidelines.- 2.9 References.- 3 Designing J2ME™ Applications: MIDP and UI Design.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 J2ME Platform Architecture.- 3.3 MIDP Overview.- 3.4 MIDP Application Overview.- 3.5 Creating a MIDP Application.- 3.6 Using Abstract Commands.- 3.7 Using MIDP User Interface Components.- 3.8 Handling Deployment and Usage Issues.- 3.9 Conclusion.- 4 Designing Multimodal Applications.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Motivation: Multimodal Interaction Use Cases.- 4.3 Discussion of Interaction Modes.- 4.4 Contextual Information as an Input Modality.- 4.5 Degrees of Multimodality.- 4.6 Multimoda1 Synchronization: What Makes Multimodality Work?.- 4.7 Solutions for Voice and Graphical Interfaces.- 4.8 Design of Multimoda1 Applications for Mobile Devices.- 4.9 Internationalization and Localization.- 4.10 Usability.- 4.11 Design Artifacts.- 4.12 Testing Mu1timodal Applications.- 4.13 Tutorial Example: Designing and Implementing a Multimodal Color Chooser.- 4.14 Summary.- 4.15 References.- 5 Heuristics for Designing Mobile Applications.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Summary of the Heuristics.- 5.3 Heuristics in Detail.- 5.4 Conclusions.- 6 A Development Process for Advanced User Interfaces of Wireless Mobile Devices.- 6.1Introduction.- 6.2 Project Details.- 6.3 Solution Details.- 6.4 Post-Project Results.- 6.5 Acknowledgements.- 6.6 References.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.6.2004
Reihe/Serie	Computer Communications and Networks
Zusatzinfo	59 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 152 p. 59 illus.
Verlagsort	England
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
ISBN-10	1-85233-785-0 / 1852337850
ISBN-13	978-1-85233-785-8 / 9781852337858
Zustand	Neuware