Location Aware Computing with Social Networking Olin College :: Human Factors and Interface Design :: 5 May 2005 Blue Team Mike Curtis Dan Lindquist Mikell Taylor

HFID Blue 2 Location-What? Social-Who? Location Aware… Information you get and your experience with device is context sensitive depending on your location Help users find their way around unfamiliar areas Find cool things to do

HFID Blue 3 Location-What? Social-Who? Social Networking Connect with and share information with a networks of others People you know People you have similar interests with People with specific interests of your choosing

HFID Blue 4Personas Oswald Charles Davidson –The persona formerly known as OCD –Control! Control! You must learn control! Reggie Colburn –Average user –Average tourist Skai Walker –Wanderlust –Off the beaten path

HFID Blue 5 First Steps Wanted to work on a device for Skai Make it subtle, natural Integrate social networking Decided to focus on device interface – not social networking interface

HFID Blue 6 Paper Prototyping D-pad -> scroll wheel Colors rethought 3 navigational modes –Wandering –Panning –Zooming

HFID Blue 7 Revised Interaction Flow

HFID Blue 8 First Interactive Prototype Improved interaction flow Added Select and Cancel buttons Hot, Hot Panning & Zooming

HFID Blue 9 Second Interactive Prototype Improved context: social networking Annotation selection algorithm Off-screen annotation pointers

HFID Blue 10 Would you like to see my prototype? Click here.

HFID Blue 11 Lessons Learned Original Concept Testing at every step of the design is important There is a tradeoff between simplicity in design and intuitiveness Consider the associations of colors and shapes Context is important

HFID Blue 12 What’s Next? To implement, or not to implement? –Port to existing device? Palm, PocketPC, iPaq? Cell phone? Entirely new interface design required –Looking into PC side issues and interface

HFID Blue 13 The End Thanks for stopping by…