Content and Web services converge: a unified user interface

The smart phone is thus a new class of computing device, correspondingly demanding a new class of user interface. The smart phone is truly personal t's carried by just one individual and at all times. However, we need to personalize it not only for the individual user but also for the wireless operator delivering a custom bundle of wireless services. The new UI must be easy to customize, update, and maintain. We propose a new UI solution in which the Web browser broadens its role beyond browsing external content to also function as the handset UI. Seen in context, this is only the next step in the continuing evolution of today's wireless ecosystem. Here we describe trends in mobile Web browsing that culminate in the browser as the handset UI.     

一种基于安卓与云平台的智能家居系统设计

针对传统智能家居系统安装复杂、功能单一、携带性差等问题,提出了一种基于安卓和云服务技术的智能家居系统设计方案。该系统以Arduino Mega2560控器作为硬件平台,实现对室内各电器设备的控制和数据采集。手机App采用低功耗蓝牙与硬件平台进行数据和指令交互,通过使用手机App可实现对室内电器设备的智能控制。PC端云服务器将手机App上传的室内环境信息保存在数据库中,以供查询和管理。实验结果表明,该系统操作方便、携带性好,能较好地实现对室内家居设备的智能控制。     

User interface guidelines for the control of interactive television systems via smart phone applications

There are a growing number of smart phone applications allowing the user to control their television, set-top box or other entertainment devices. The success of these applications is limited. Based on findings from media studies in Austria and France focusing on how people currently use their TV and iTV systems and associated devices, this article describes recommendations for the design of a smart phone application enabling users to control Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) systems including all connected entertainment devices. Recommendations include the need to allow users to control devices that are related to the IPTV experience (not only the set-top box or television set) and the focus on scenarios of usage like supporting listening to music, enjoying a movie or controlling the connected home. Based on similarities and differences found in the two samples, future smart phone applications for controlling TV will only succeed if they provide meaningful functionalities that satisfy the (varying) user needs, support personalisation and personal usage and respect the limitations of mobile phones with respect to possible parallel activities performed.     

A soft computing based location-aware access control for smart buildings

The evolution of wireless communications and pervasive computing is transforming current physical spaces into real smart environments. These emerging scenarios are expected to be composed by a potentially huge amount of heterogeneous smart objects which can be remotely accessed by users via their mobile devices anytime, anywhere. In this paper, we propose a distributed location-aware access control mechanism and its application in the smart building context. Our approach is based on an access control engine embedded into smart objects, which are responsible to make authorization decisions by considering both user location data and access credentials. User location data are estimated using a novel indoor localization system based on magnetic field data sent by user through her personal phone. This localization system implements a combination of soft computing techniques over the data collected by smartphones. Therefore, our location-aware access control mechanism does not require any intermediate entity, providing the benefits of a decentralized approach for smart environments. From the results obtained, we can consider our proposal as a promising approach to tackle the challenging security requirements of typical pervasive environments.     

而向用户体验的老蝴能手机界面设计

文章以老年人生理和心理特征为基础,结合老年人智能手机界面设计原则,分析比较市场现有的主流老年人智能手机界面,针对老年人智能手机界面的视觉设计,采用面向用户体验的界面设计方法来设计老年人智能手机界面。得出符合老年人生理和心理特征的手机界面设计方法。让老年人在手机使用中获得更好的用户体验。     

Factors affecting the smartphone users to use the mobile portal services: focusing on Korean mobile portals

This study aims to clarify whether and how the portal sites in wired Internet environments can enhance their positions as market leaders in the mobile environment.The result may explain that the user’s trust in the mobile services of portal sites (the mobile portal services) is related to the site’s quality and the site’s brand equity significantly and is a mediator to increase the user’s intention to use mobile portal services. This study also explains that the user’s experience with a smartphone can encourage portal users to expect that the mobile portal services are useful and that the experience can link brand equity in certain business environments to trust in the brand in other business environments. Site quality including the design quality of portal sites can affect the user’s trust in the mobile services of the portal sites directly and can affect the user’s intention to use the mobile portal services under certain conditions. Practically, this study suggests that portal sites should focus on designing and developing more usable sites with high-quality UI components—convenient menu navigation, a proper UI design, and usable content rather depend on their current position as the leading companies in the wired Internet environment.     

A factor combination approach to developing style guides for mobile phone user interface

This paper proposes a systematic approach to developing comprehensive guidelines for mobile phone user interface, and presents a case study to validate the approach. The approach applies a systematic combination of three critical factors: general usability principles, UI components and guideline properties to developing guidelines. In the case study, this factor combination approach was very effective in collecting experts’ ideas, creating guidelines and editing them. The resulting style guide can provide comprehensive and useful guidelines for designing mobile phone UI.

Relevance to Industry

UI designers can use the results of the study as a practical method to develop style guides for mobile phone UIs. The approach taken in the study will also be helpful in managing complex guideline information systematically.     

The smart phone: a ubiquitous input device

We show how modern mobile phones (Weiser's tabs) can interact with their environment, especially large situated displays (Weiser's boards). Smart phones' emerging capabilities are fueling a rise in the use of mobile phones as input devices to such resources as situated displays, vending machines, and home appliances. Mobile phones' prevalence gives them great potential to be the default physical interface for ubiquitous computing applications. We survey interaction techniques that use mobile phones as input devices to ubiquitous computing environments. We use smart phone to describe an enhanced mobile phone. Our analysis blurs the line between smart phones and PDAs such as the Palm Pilot because the feature sets continue to converge.     

When Cell Phones Become Computers

Atom-powered cell phones are a likely consequence of the current mobile-processor design trends. By integrating a smart phone with a logical frame-buffer architecture and wireless display, they're well positioned to overcome current user interface limitations, and provide mobile users with a full x86 compatible PC experience. On the other hand, check out all the latest reviews of Moorestown, and judge for yourself. Is Atom just another processor family that will support a market for low-end laptops, or is it a game changer for cell phones that will revolutionize how we think about pervasive computing, and make smart phones even smarter?     

Mixed reality participants in smart meeting rooms and smart home environments

Human–computer interaction requires modeling of the user. A user profile typically contains preferences, interests, characteristics, and interaction behavior. However, in its multimodal interaction with a smart environment the user displays characteristics that show how the user, not necessarily consciously, verbally and nonverbally provides the smart environment with useful input and feedback. Especially in ambient intelligence environments we encounter situations where the environment supports interaction between the environment, smart objects (e.g., mobile robots, smart furniture) and human participants in the environment. Therefore it is useful for the profile to contain a physical representation of the user obtained by multi-modal capturing techniques. We discuss the modeling and simulation of interacting participants in a virtual meeting room, we discuss how remote meeting participants can take part in meeting activities and they have some observations on translating research results to smart home environments.     

基于Android和Pachube的智能家居远程监控系统设计

设计了一种可远程控制的智能家居监控系统,采用XBee模块组成ZigBee网络传输智能家居控制网络,由Netduino plus搭建的家庭网关实施控制,Android远程控制端通过Pachube对网关进行访问。该系统组网方便,能通过手机远程监控智能家居的运转,具有很好的应用前景。     

基于WEB和移动设备的学生安全平台设计

针对学生的安全监管问题,通过对学生使用的智能手机进行定位,基于高德地图开放API与WEB技术,建立一个让学生、家长和老师共同使用的安全平台,使家长可以随时掌握学生的动态,并对学生的不安全行为进行有效控制,老师也可以和家长进行交流。平台可以实现三方的有效互动,最大限度的保证了学生的日常安全。     

Android平台手机防盗系统的安全解决方案

在Android移动应用开发中,手机防盗是一项重要的安全技术。基于Android手机平台,提出并设计了一种手机防盗的安全解决方案,利用一种手机云平台的相关技术,实现了防盗追踪、远程控制和即时通信三个功能模块。首先介绍了整个系统的框架结构,然后详细分析了各个模块的具体实现,最后在手机上进行了测试。实现了通过Web网页的形式对被盗手机进行远程控制,为用户找回手机提供重要的线索。     

基于3G网络的智慧社区分布式视频监控系统研究

用户在家中安装一台嵌入式多媒体中心即可随时随地使用PC客户端或智能手机App查看所属社区的公共视频监控资源和用户自家私有的视频资源。设计实时监控视频分析处理软件,检测家中的弱势群体是否出现危险的情况,将3G智能手机与互联网结合应用,当危险发生时软件将在第一时间做出智能判断并对危险情景进行截图,然后通过互联网将截图以及报警信息发送给相关监护人用户,为用户的迅速判断以及合理决定提供可视化的数据支撑。     

Can eye-tracking data be measured to assess product design?: Visual attention mechanism should be considered

Eye tracking probes user's perception of real-time reaction to products, while conventional methods (i.e. interviews, focus group, questionnaires and so on) have generally failed because they depend on users' willingness and competency to describe how they feel when they are exposed to a product. Two tasks were designed to explore the indexes of eye movement that can reflect user experience of product, and analyse the attention captured by product attributes and goal-oriented. In task one, participants just browsed two smart phone pictures and evaluated the whole user experience. Binary choices were used in task two to ask participants to select the smart phone picture with higher user experience and then click the mouse. The results showed that in the browsing task, participants had shorter time to first fixation for the smart phone picture with higher level of user experience than the lower. And pupil dilated significantly when participants browse smart phone picture with lower level of user experience. In goal-oriented task, participants' attentions were dominated by visual perception of task driven, mainly reflected on longer fixation time and larger pupil diameter when looking at the smart phone with higher level of user experience. These results support the notion that we cannot assess product design just by several eye-movement indexes without considering the effects of visual attention mechanism.Relevance to industryThe appearance of product plays an important role to attract user's attention and stimulate their intention to experience. And vision is the main channel for users to obtain product information. Hence a thorough research on the inherent mechanism of vision perception can provide technical support for product designers, which in turn can attract more consumers to experience the product, even buy it. Moreover, the seller can find out the real buyers and predict their desired products by tracking user's eyes.     

基于ZigBee技术的智能家居控制系统的设计

通过对近年来智能家居的研究,以S3C6410为智能网关的核心处理器,应用ZigBee无线传感器网络、嵌入式、Wi-Fi等多种技术,设计了一套智能家居系统。用户可利用手机远程监测家庭情况,并对家电设备等进行控制。实现了防盗自动报警、灯具自动控制、家庭环境监测、远程控制电器设备等功能。     

Andriod手机APP蓝牙控制智能车解决方案

在智能车遥控传统解决方案中,通常采用超再生遥控或者红外遥控的方案,而随着Andriod智能终端的普及,智能终端的短距离无线通信技术——蓝牙通信以及可以感知手机方位的方向传感器,结合单片机系统、蓝牙模块和电机驱动模块,实现基于Andriod手机APP的蓝牙控制智能车.这样每部安卓手机都成为了一部遥控器,经过多品牌和多版本手机的测试,系统都能很好地运行,同时本设计为智能机器人和智能家居提供一种新的思路.     

Usability risk level evaluation for physical user interface of mobile phone

The mobile phone has become an indispensable device in everyday life. However, many usability problems were generated by the multi-functionality of mobile phones. There was an important increase on the user interface (UI) design and usability. With the introduction of a variety of forms and keypads in mobile phones, the user's need of controllability, grip-stability, and usability were raised in the UI aspect. Therefore, in this study, we investigated the physical user interface (PUI) elements of mobile phones, and defined the degree of usability risk such as key level value, function level value, and grip level value. Also, this study proposed an evaluation framework to quantitatively measure the usability risk in the mobile phone PUI elements. For this, the mobile phone PUI elements were analyzed and classified by key type, function, and form-factor. Hence, in the case study was investigated and evaluated 133 mobile phones in the market by the proposed framework. As a result, the proposed evaluation framework enabled the measurement of the mobile phone usability risk level in the early stages of the concept design. This made possible the prediction of design problems related with the mobile phone PUI.     

Smart home safety handwriting pattern recognition with innovative technology

Intelligent home security control equipment has become indispensable in daily life. This study uses an innovative handwriting recognition technology to confirm user identity and to manage door security. Smart phones are used for security system management and control actions, and identity confirmation is performed in two stages. In the first stage, the user enters a user name and password into a smart phone and waits for successful identity recognition. In the second stage, the user must write a text or symbol pattern previously set into the smart phone. After successful identification in the second stage, the user is given permission to control the electronic lock and enter the door. The proposed home security system is implemented using a RNN (Recurrent Neural Network) with associative memory for training and recognition. The RNN used in the handwriting recognition step performs some recognition iterative processes.     

A Usability Checklist for the Usability Evaluation of Mobile Phone User Interface

In the last decade, the research of the usability of mobile phones has been a newly evolving area with few established methodologies and realistic practices that ensure capturing usability in evaluation. Thus, there exists growing demand to explore appropriate evaluation methodologies that evaluate the usability of mobile phones quickly as well as comprehensively. This study aims to develop a task-based usability checklist based on heuristic evaluations in views of mobile phone user interface (UI) practitioners. A hierarchical structure of UI design elements and usability principles related to mobile phones were developed and then utilized to develop the checklist. To demonstrate the practical effectiveness of the proposed checklist, comparative experiments were conducted on the usability checklist and usability testing. The majority of usability problems found by usability testing and additional problems were discovered by the proposed checklist. It is expected that the usability checklist proposed in this study could be used quickly and efficiently by usability practitioners to evaluate the mobile phone UI in the middle of the mobile phone development process.