User Research and User Centered Design; Designing, Developing, and Commercializing Widget Service on Mobile Handset

Mobile widget is a new paradigm for interactive idle screen service on mobile handset. Currently the standardization of widget is being discussed by W3C; Widget is globally accepted as a tiny web application. In Korea, however, mobile widget business is being expanded prior to that of web/PC widget though it has lots of issues to be solved: issues of usability, technology, and business model. In order to resolve these issues, user research and user centered design process were derived by KTF through the development of mobile widget. While using newly developed Widget, user can easily set and unset widgets by just pushing Widget key and change background images without changing one single widget. User can also personalize his/her widget adjusting its spot, size, opacity, theme, and color.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: HCI
• Authors: Sung Moo Hong
• Keywords: HCI 2009, Human Computer Interaction, Mobile Widget, Mobile Widget Business, Widget Key