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Studying and Tackling Temporal Challenges in Mobile HCI
Joel Fischer, University of Nottingham
CHI 2010 Doctoral Consortium, Atlanta, GA
10-15 April 2010
Summary
In this paper, the author discusses research he has done and hopes to continue in the area of timing delivery of messages, updates, or other communication to mobile device. This was done, to date, in the context of SMS game Day of the Figurines on mobile platforms, notably the Android OS. Data collection was done by short questionnaires spread over a long period of time, a technique designated Experience Sampling Method.
The objective pitched was to understand how users communicate through their mobile devices over the spaces Who, To Whom, What, How, Where, When, In Which Channel, With What Effect. That is, in spite of the title the actual proposal at the end was not for a strictly temporal study but expanding to other areas.
Discussion
Mr. Fischer is fond of using really large words to describe really simple concepts. There really isn't much here beyond explaining that he had conducted a time based study of mobile device usage patterns using short surveys and wished to expand it into dimensions besides time, padded to two and a half pages.
While the information is certainly useful, I fail to see where it would have an advantage over allowing the user to choose when they wanted to receive inputs/messages from the phone. Simple to implement (effectively done now, and I'm sure a widget to not mute certain numbers when the phone is set to "silent" in general would be easy), and still at least as effective as anything this research is likely to produce.
With that noted, I think the direction I would take this project would be to expand out of gaming rather than expanding out of time. I'm sure there is some useful data to be mined there, perhaps more useful than the spatial data. Certainly, I think the detail would increase the usefulness more than the broadness.
Day of the Figurines image, from
via GIS
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