Diploma Thesis
November 2006

Modelling Advanced Mobile Interaction
with the Real World

Friederike Otto

Supervisors: Paul Holleis, Albrecht Schmidt

Abstract

Model based evaluation played and plays a vital role in designing usable applications. Additionally the rise of mobile phones leads to more and more applications built for mobile interactions. So far it is hardly possible to apply the strong advantages of model based evaluation to the design process of mobile applications because these models have mostly been constructed and evaluated for desktop interactions. One aspect to rank and compare interactions is the user performance time which becomes even more significant when people want to accomplish a task whilst they are on the run or the mobile phone interaction is just a side task amongst others. In this work we will provide a Mobile Phone Keystroke- Level- Model (KLM) to predict the user performance time for advanced mobile interactions on the keystroke level. Is it possible to model mobile HCI accurately and how can models approved for desktop interactions (e.g. Card et al. KLM) be modified and expanded to face the new challenges of mobile phone interactions are just a few questions addressed in this work.

Report

Modelling Advanced Mobile Interaction with the Real World: (... to come ...)

Final Presentation (in German only): (pdf)

Implementation

The source implementation will be free to download. (... to come ...)

Publications

Full paper accepted at CHI '07: Keystroke-Level Model for Advanced Mobile Phone Interaction, P. Holleis, F. Otto, H. Hussmann, A. Schmidt

Contact

For more information please contact
Paul Holleis (paul @ hcilab.org, http://www.hcilab.org/paul) or
Dr. Albrecht Schmidt (albrecht @ hcilab.org, http://www.hcilab.org/albrecht)

Diploma Thesis November 2006

Modelling Advanced Mobile Interaction with the Real World Friederike Otto Supervisors: Paul Holleis, Albrecht Schmidt