2019
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Chapter 5.23
User-Centered Mobile
Computing
Dean Mohamedally
City University London, UK
Panayiotis Zaphiris
City University London, UK
Helen Petrie
City University London, UK
INTRODUCTION
Mobile computing and wireless communications
continue to change the way in which we perceive
our lifestyles and habits. Through an extensive
literature review of state-of-the-art human-com-
puter interaction issues in mobile computing
(Mobile HCI), we examine recent pertinent case
studies that attempt to provide practical mobile
capabilities to users. We thus contribute to the
reader a primer to the philosophy of developing
mobile systems for user centred design.
User centred design elicits the needs and
requirements of end users. Its purpose in mobile
systems is to enable useful computing and com-
municating experiences for diverse types of users,
anywhere at anytime and on demand. We shall
therefore illustrate to the reader some of the key
constraints of mobile devices such as limited
visuals, contextual awareness and mobility itself,
and more importantly how they can be overcome
through innovative design and development.
INFORMATION VISUALISATION
One of the most fundamental objectives in the
miniaturisation of computer technologies is to
present a platform from which users can maintain
usable levels of interaction with their data from
wherever they are. Information visualisation
has come a long way since the days of two-co-
lour text-only format screens. Yet constraints
determined by factors of physical engineering