Mobile Fair Diary: hybrid interface for taking, browsing and sharing context-aware notes

This paper describes the Mobile Fair Diary (MFD), which is designed to allow a housing fair customer to make a personalized digital recording of his/ her visit to a hectic fairground for later use. The MFD is a hybrid interface service comprising of an application for a camera equipped smart phone and a website accessed by a PC. The smart phone application is used for taking context-aware notes such as visual codes, photos, dictations and text. The notes are uploaded onto a website, where they can be viewed with a PC in a contextually ordered view for browsing, organizing and sharing. The MFD was empirically evaluated in a real-life environment of use with genuine end users by a large-scale field trial at a national housing fair. The results testify to the very successful design of the MFD with high usefulness. Keywords Hybrid interface Á Context awareness Á Taking notes Á Testing in real-life environment

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: PUC
• Authors: Jani Korhonen, Timo Ojala, Annu Ristola, Manne Kesti, Vesa Kilpelänaho, Mikko Koskinen, Eveliina Viippola
• Keywords: Housing Fair, Hybrid Interface, PUC 2007, Smart Phone