Supporting serendipitous integration in mobile computing environments

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2003.12.003

Supporting serendipitous integration in mobile computing environments

2004-05-01

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DOI：10.1016/j.ijhcs.2003.12.003

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In the richly networked world of the near future, mobile computing users will be confronted with an ever-expanding array of devices and services accessible in their environments. In such a world, we cannot expect to have available to us specific applications that allow us to accomplish every conceivable combination of devices that we may wish. Instead, we believe that many of our interactions with the network will be characterized by the use of general purpose tools that allow us to discover, use, and integrate multiple devices around us. This paper lays out the case for why we believe that so-called serendipitous integration is a necessary fact that we will face in mobile computing, and explores a number of design experiments into supporting end user configuration and control of networked environments through general purpose tools. We present all iterative design approach to creating such tools and their user interfaces, discuss our observations about the challenges of designing for such a world, and then explore a number of tools that take differing design approaches to overcoming these challenges. We conclude with a set of reflections oil the user experience issues that we believe are inherent in dealing with ad hoc mobile computing ill richly networked environments. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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