Experimental platform for mobile information systems

Interaction design is a major issue for mobile information systems in terms of not only the choice of input-output channels and presentation of information, but also the application of context-awareness. To support experimentation with these factors, we have developed a platform that supports the rapid prototyping of multi-channel, multi-modal, context-aware applications. The paper presents the main components of the platform and describes how it was used to develop a tourist information system for an international arts festival where interaction was based on a combination of speech input-output and interactive paper. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.4.3 [Information Systems Applications]: Communications Applications—information browsers; H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces— prototyping; H.5.4 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Hypertext/Hypermedia—architectures, navigation, user issues General Terms Design, Experimentation Keywords Mobil...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: MOBICOM
• Authors: Rudi Belotti, Corsin Decurtins, Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer, Ljiljana Vukelja
• Keywords: Information System, MOBICOM 2005, Mobile Information System, Rapid Prototyping