Mobile Human-Computer Interaction - MobileHCI 2004: 6th by Christopher Campbell, Peter Tarasewich (auth.), Stephen

By Christopher Campbell, Peter Tarasewich (auth.), Stephen Brewster, Mark Dunlop (eds.)

MobileHCI is a discussion board for lecturers and practitioners to debate the demanding situations and power strategies for e?ective human-computer interplay with cellular platforms and companies. It covers the layout, evaluate and alertness of te- niques and techniques for all cellular computing units and providers. MobileHCI 2004 was once the 6th within the sequence of meetings that used to be begun at Glasgow U- versity in 1998 via Chris Johnson. We formerly chaired the convention in 1999 in Edinburgh (as a part of have interaction 1999) and in 2001 in Lille (as a part of IHM-HCI 2001). The final years observed the convention movement to Italy, ?rst - der the chairmanship of Fabio Patern` o in Pisa then less than Luca Chittaro in Udine. In 2005 the convention will circulation to Austria to be chaired through Manfred Tscheligi. every year the convention has its personal web site hosted by way of the convention chair, but the deal with www. mobilehci. org will continuously element to the following (or present) convention. The variety of submissions has elevated each year. This yr we got seventy nine complete papers (63 have been acquired final yr) from which we authorized the simplest 25. We had eighty one brief papers and posters submitted (59 final 12 months) and authorized 20 of those as brief papers and 22 as posters. We got nine workshop, four instructional and a pair of panel proposals, from which five, 2 and a couple of, respectively, have been accepted.

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For example, the speech instruction for the screen in Figure 1 is “From the Western Lecture Theatre, if you look right, you’ll see a large chimney. ” Audio is presented using the device’s built-in speaker. The “View Map” button shows a simplified map of the route as shown on the right in Figure 1. The position of the landmark in the photograph is marked with a red dot (dark grey and circled in Figure 1). The “Restart” button returns the user to first screen at the beginning of the route. 40 J. Goodman et al.

G. 4] or a reduction in resources for information processing [9]. Good memory abilities should be of central importance for the use of devices with only a small display since the user has to memorize the functions and their location within the menu. Indeed, in a recent study it was shown that the higher users’ memory capacity, the better their performance using a cellular phone [3]. Further, spatial abilities have proven to decrease over the lifespan. For example a decline in mental rotation ability of 96% was shown in a study comparing 19 to 27 year olds with 66 to 77 year old participants [5].

I have a PhD in computer science but I still had a sense of helplessness. The battle for domination will be won S. Brewster and M. ): MobileHCI 2004, LNCS 3160, pp. 25–37, 2004. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004 26 M. Ziefle and S. ” Matt Jones, New Zealand. Older adults’ difficulties, however, seem to be located at a more fundamental level. For an insight into their specific problems, differences between younger and older people have to be considered regarding the basal cognitive requirements for the handling of a hierarchical information structure such as the cellular phone menu.

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