The Role of Physical Affordances in Multifunctional Mobile Device Design

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sorin Adam Matei ◽  
Anthony Faiola ◽  
David J. Wheatley ◽  
Tim Altom
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Computing ◽  
Full Advantage ◽  
Mental Models ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Cognitive Models ◽  
Device Design ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
New Device

As designers of mobile/media-rich devices continue to incorporate more features/functionality, the evolution of interfaces will become more complex. Meanwhile, users cognitive models must be aligned with new device capabilities and corresponding physical affordances. In this paper, the authors argue that based on HCI design theory, users approach objects by building mental models starting with physical appearance. Findings suggest that users who embrace a device’s multifunctionality are prevented from taking full advantage of an array of features due to an apparent cognitive constraint caused by a lack of physical controls. The authors submit that this problem stems from established mental models and past associated behaviors of both mobile and non-mobile interactive devices. In conclusion, users expressed a preference for immediate access and use of certain physical device controls within a multi-tasking environment, suggesting that as mobile computing becomes more prevalent, physical affordances in multifunctional devices may remain or increase in importance.

The Role of Physical Affordances in Multifunctional Mobile Device Design

2012 ◽  
pp. 306-324
Author(s):  
Sorin Adam Matei ◽  
Anthony Faiola ◽  
David J. Wheatley ◽  
Tim Altom
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Computing ◽  
Full Advantage ◽  
Mental Models ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Cognitive Models ◽  
Device Design ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
New Device

As designers of mobile/media-rich devices continue to incorporate more features/functionality, the evolution of interfaces will become more complex. Meanwhile, users cognitive models must be aligned with new device capabilities and corresponding physical affordances. In this paper, the authors argue that based on HCI design theory, users approach objects by building mental models starting with physical appearance. Findings suggest that users who embrace a device’s multifunctionality are prevented from taking full advantage of an array of features due to an apparent cognitive constraint caused by a lack of physical controls. The authors submit that this problem stems from established mental models and past associated behaviors of both mobile and non-mobile interactive devices. In conclusion, users expressed a preference for immediate access and use of certain physical device controls within a multi-tasking environment, suggesting that as mobile computing becomes more prevalent, physical affordances in multifunctional devices may remain or increase in importance.

Haunting Hands

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M. Cumiskey ◽  
Larissa Hjorth
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
Depth Study

From natural disasters to private funerals, digital media are playing a central role in the documentation and commemoration of shared significant events and individual loss experiences. Yet few studies have fully engaged with the increasing role mobile media play in making meanings related to traumatic events across different individual and collective contexts. Haunting Hands provides the first in-depth study into understanding the role of mobile media in memorialization and bereavement as a cultural and social practice. Throughout the chapters in this book, we explore how mobile devices are both expanding upon older forms of memory-making and creating new channels for affective cultures whereby the visual, textual, oral, and haptic manifest in new ways. Encompassing everything from phones to tablets, mobile media are not only playing a key role in how we represent and remember life, but also in how we negotiate the increasingly integral role of the digital within rituals in and around death. Haunting Hands posits how, during times of distress, mobile media can assist, accompany, and at times augment the disruptive terrain of loss. The book expands upon debates in the area of online memorialization in that the mobile device itself takes prominence, not only for its communicative or social function, but also for the ways in which it can contain as well as generate an intimate space within it. In this way, the device becomes an important companion for mobile-emotive grief as the bereaved engage with emotionally charged digital content in solitary, sometimes secretive, and sometimes shared ways.

Creativity in Teams: The Role of Shared Mental Models

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. Arreola ◽  
Erika Robinson-Morral ◽  
Danielle A. S. Crough ◽  
Ben G. Wigert ◽  
Brad Hullsiek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Models ◽  
Shared Mental Models

scholarly journals Internet of Vehicles Empowered Mobile Media: Research on Mobile-Generated Content (MoGC) for Intelligent Connected Vehicles

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3538
Author(s):  
Zhiyuan Yu ◽  
Doudou Jin ◽  
Chao Zhai ◽  
Wan Ni ◽  
Desheng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Production Capacity ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Connected Vehicles ◽  
New Production ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Internet Of Vehicles ◽  
News Source ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
Content Generation

With the rapid growth of mobile media, large quantities of mobile content have been generated by moving entities. Some content generation patterns become popular for users and professional organizations, e.g., user-generated content, professionally-generated content, machine-generated content. However, due to the limitations of device types and functions, it is necessary to explore the new production tools and further inspire the content potential in mobile scenarios. According to the production capacity supported by Internet of Vehicles, intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) emerge as new content generated devices in sustainable cities. In this paper, we propose the concept of Mobile-Generated Content (MoGC) as a new part of production patterns. First, we analyze the relationship between MoGC and existing patterns from the perspectives of entity and workflow. Second, the unique functionality and social property of MoGC are revealed, i.e., ICVs play the role of middle platform with data and technology offices. The current dominant discourse created by the professional institutions (e.g., media agency or governing authority) will transfer to the vehicle users. In this way, the content generation system has been further enriched in omni-media environments through efficiently integrating productivity tools and resources. Besides, MoGC not only contributes to social governance by enlarging the news source and coverage, but also strengthen the personal discourse in mobile scenarios.

Individual learning: the role of mental models in the learning of software developers

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 503
Author(s):  
Letícia Rodrigues Da Fonseca ◽  
Marcelo Ribeiro Silva ◽  
Sheldon William Silva ◽  
Guilherme Marques Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Mental Models ◽  
Individual Learning ◽  
Software Developers

Collaboration between France and the UK in R&D and Technology Transfer

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Nicolaon
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Full Advantage ◽  
National Economy ◽  
National Agency ◽  
Transfer Of Technology ◽  
Technology Group ◽  
The Uk

Recent analyses in France and the UK of the role of R&D and technology transfer in the national economy have emphasized different problems but the same conclusion. Both governments recognize that the transfer of technology has to be improved to take full advantage of the national R&D effort. The author assesses the extent of collaboration between the two countries and considers activities of ANVAR, the French National Agency for Innovation, and the British Technology Group to enhance interaction and increase the effective commercialization of innovations.

scholarly journals Digital Genealogies: Understanding Social Mobile Media LINE in the Role of Japanese Families

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630511770381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kana Ohashi ◽  
Fumitoshi Kato ◽  
Larissa Hjorth
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Media Platform

This article explores the emergence of the dominant mobile social media platform in Japan, LINE. In particular, the article focuses upon its usage to maintain familial ties, especially between matriarchal connections. Drawing upon ethnographic work with 12 families over 3 years, this article seeks to provide a detailed and nuanced sense of how social mobile media is deployed intergenerationally.

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