Mobile User Interfaces: Strategies, Trends and Opportunities

Digital Vector
November 1, 2004
235 Pages - SKU: DG1070462
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Mobile User Interfaces: Strategies, Trends and Opportunities

 
Mobile user interfaces (MUI) have attracted considerable investments from the wireless industry. Mobile applications are key to successful wireless service offerings and the success of applications in turn depends on effective MUIs. This is because the MUI provides the medium for interacting with the applications being accessed. With the proliferation of handheld devices such as PDAs, mobile phones etc., MUIs have become very important. A uniform MUI may not serve the purpose of all devices or all categories of users, necessitating the need to customization. Basically firms could build a group of generic MUIs and can then extend the same depending on usage. In building effective MUIs, firms could face challenges in terms of display resolution, display size, data interaction method, power usage, cost etc. This calls for a rationalization of features and benefits to arrive at a portfolio of offerings to suit different usage needs. Moreover the MUIs should be intuitive and easy to use for the end user with minimal support from the associated user manuals. Some other considerations while building MUIs include the following: security, authentication, input/output devices, future applications, entertainment, price, location-based services etc.