Paper Info
Title
Addressing mobile phone diversity in ubicomp experience development
Abstract
Mobile phones are a widely-available class of device with supporting communications infrastructure which can be appropriated and exploited to support ubicomp experiences. However mobile phones vary hugely in their capabilities. We explore how a single dimension of phone application type embodies the critical trade-off between capability and availability, i.e. between what can be done and the fraction of potential participants' phones that can do this. We describe four different mobile phone ubicomp experiences that illustrate different points along this continuum (SMS, WAP/Web, and J2ME, Python and native applications) and the common software platform/toolkit, EQUIP2, that has been co-developed to support them. From this we propose four development strategies for addressing mobile phone diversity: prioritise support for server development (including web integration), migrate functionality between server(s) and handset(s), support flexible communication options, and use a loosely coupled (data-driven and component-based) software approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.5555/1771592.1771618
UbiComp
Keywords
Field
DocType
server development,different point,phone application type,mobile phone,common software platform,software approach,mobile phone diversity,different mobile phone ubicomp,ubicomp experience development,development strategy,prioritise support
Mobile identification number,Mobile search,Mobile station,Computer science,Phone,Human–computer interaction,GSM services,Ubiquitous computing,Mobile phone,Mobile Web,Multimedia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4717
0302-9743
978-3-540-74852-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.52
18
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chris Greenhalgh12764339.22
Steve Benford25886696.64
Adam Drozd349252.21
Martin Flintham484590.56
Alastair Hampshire517319.44
Leif Oppermann615415.94
Keir Smith740.86
Christoph von Tycowicz818310.31