Course Description
Video Introduction
Session 1: Understanding Mobile Interaction Design
Audience and Benefits:
For developers and designers: the course will give challenging, fresh perspectives on the goals of and approaches to mobile interaction design.
For industrial and academic researchers: the course will provide provoking questions about the form and function of effective mobile user experiences.
For students: people engaged in graduate studies in the mobile area will benefit from seeing the 'bigger picture'. The design methods and perspectives presented will provide useful tools for anyone involved in developing concept and prototype systems.
For mobile business and marketing analysts and strategists: the session will offer an interesting analysis to help explain previous hits and flops as well as pointing the way for successful future innovation.
Features:
- an exploration of mobile design philosophies, principles and perspectives;
- critiques of existing mobile concepts, prototypes and services; and
- a survey and evaluation of methods and tools for mobile interaction design.
Session 2: Mobile Interaction Design Practice
Audience and Benefits:
For developers and designers: these participants will be exposed to tried-and-tested design solutions for key and emerging mobile applications and services.
For industrial and academic researchers: the course will present a set of research pointers. Those working on the topics of information access, image access and mobile communities will be given insights into the current and evolving thinking surrounding these application areas.
For students: the attraction is a dynamic 'literature review' of areas where there is still active, useful research going on.
For mobile business and marketing analysts and strategists: will benefit from insights and inspirations from the research community.
Features:
- hands-on exploration of tools and techniques for assessing or developing new mobile services and products;
- case-studies, worked-examples and guidelines to help participants understand critical issues in the successful design of key emerging mobile application areas; and
- examples of research applied practically.
Presenter
Presenter Biography
Gary Marsden is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Besides his academic interests in designing interaction for mobile computers, a large part of his time is spent in examining how mobile computers can be used for upliftment in the developing world. He is the Interactions Magazine 'Developing World' editor and was awarded the ACM SigCHI Social Impact Award in 2007.