Mobile Interaction Design - Softcover

Matt Jones; Gary Marsden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470090898 ISBN 13: 9780470090893

Publisher: Wiley, 2005

Synopsis

Mobile Interaction Design covers important issues relating to this ever-changing technology, including, developing interfaces and devices with a great deal of sensitivity to human needs, desires, and capabilities. This book is written to inspire and challenge designers' preconceived notions of this marketplace and to convey lessons learned, and principles involved, in the development and deployment of interactive systems to the mobile environment.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

Mobile or cell phones, handheld computers, RFID tags or even implants. What could or should the wireless future be?

Already, mobiles are an essential part of life for two billion users.
We are told that wireless devices will help us to communicate and relate in better ways, become more creative, better educated and more efficient and effective in our working lives. Yet often with new developments or devices the hype is followed by some small successes, and a great deal of disappointment.

This book is about catering to the everyday needs people have, about shifting the design perspective away from 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.

Presenting key interaction design ideas and successes in an accessible, relevant way, and containing exercises, interviews and case studies, this book is a must have for students on Mobile Design and HCI courses, for designers keen to make the mobile even more powerful and easy to use, and for anyone who wants to broaden their understanding of effective human-centered design in the increasingly vital context of mobile systems.

Already, mobiles are an essential part of life for two billion users.
We are told that wireless devices will help us to communicate and relate in better ways, become more creative, better educated and more efficient and effective in our working lives. Yet often with new developments or devices the hype is followed by some small successes, and a great deal of disappointment.

This book is about catering to the everyday needs people have, about shifting the design perspective away from 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.

Presenting key interaction design ideas and successes in an accessible, relevant way, and containing exercises, interviews and case studies, this book is a must have for students on Mobile Design and HCI courses, for designers keen to make the mobile even more powerful and easy to use, and for anyone who wants to broaden their understanding of effective human-centered design in the increasingly vital context of mobile systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470090898
• ISBN 13: 9780470090893
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 406