THE ARTICLE: UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR MOBILE PHONES: A CASE STUDY By Plos Ornella and Buisine Stéphanie 1

A CASE STUDY Adapting mobile phones’ physical device to people with: Visual impairment Hearing impairment Dexterity impariment Avoid the stigmatizing effect 2

USER NEEDS ANALYSIS The existing products are usually expensive, socially discriminating or unknown to the user Large-scale survey which problems/preferences The product needs to be both stylish and functional 3

RESULTS Visually impaired people Hard-to-feel buttons To small font size on screen and keyboard Bad luminosity and/or contrast Hearing imparied people Videophone is not widespread Prefer numerical keyboard and predictive text-input system (T9) Visual and vibrating alerts are necessary 4

RESULTS Elderly people Use mobile phones for spoken communication Need large font size on screen and keyboard Too small key space Insufficent audio ring volume 5

DESIGN TRENDS ANALYSIS Mobile phones are submitted to design trends They intended to design a mobile phone with a high simplicity and a moderate innovative design 6 designers gathered a large sample of pictures of existing mobile phones Organized them into a semantic map 6

CONCLUSION Selected 4 mobile phones which were made into mock-ups 1. mockup: positiv feedback on the asymmetry 2. mockup: minimal buttons, can be used for navigation The mock-ups do not look like existing products Limitation; no graphical designer on the team The study needs analysis and design spedifications 7

MOCK-UPS 8

OUR PROJECT -LOPOT Locationbased Profile Updating Service/Lokasjonsbasert ProfilOppdateringsTjeneste 9

OUR IDEA Get the location of your friends at campus Get students in touch with each other Use the cell phone to get a users position View on a map or in a list 10

OUR QUESTIONS TO ANSWER Who are the target group? Student and employees at UiO Are there any negative consequences with a location based service? Criminality Privacy Awkward situations 11

OUR QUESTIONS TO ANSWER Is there a need for this kind of service? Survey on students use of social communities Which similar services do already exist? Google Latitude, Brightkite Facebook and Twitter are launching locationbased applications 12

OUR QUESTIONS TO ANSWER It this possible to implement? Technology Outside; GPS Inside; WLAN/Bluetooth Platforms Affordable/Accessible Android Symbian Windows Mobile 13

TO BE CONTINUED… Decide accuracy Design a prototype Second survey Evaluation 14