What is the future of Mobile Interface
We had keypads and now everything is TOUCH. Will there be more to see on touch or the way you control or interact with your mobile phone is going to change soon or in the near future??
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Alvin W.
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Hi Santosh,
Touch interfaces will evolve and become a mainstay of how humans interact with objects in the future. From the iphone with it's attractive touch interface from a mobile standpoint to iphone clones to Windows from microsoft featuring windows 7 touting touch interfaces to new hardware equipment such as PCs nowadays coming with touch screens, the premise is "to interact". This will be the precursor to a technology lifestyle that epitomises the sense of touch being elevated up into the spotlight as the next leap into human-device interaction.
From visual where we look at the screen, aural when we listen to music, we can observe the evolution of devices built that are meant to evoke human senses in it's nascent form, growing to incorporate all facets possible of existing human senses. Probably the next big leap will see sense of smell being integrated and being pushed into the forefront with mimicking of actual real life situations whether you are trekking through a rubbish infused dump and able to smell the stankiness of the surroundings as part as the virtual experience playing a FPS or inhaling the sweet scent of green after a downpour in a forest as a cinematic experience accompaniement.
One possible element of interaction with mobile phones is to do away with the ability to touch, leapfrog it and from user handsigns, be able to access shortcuts on the phone or dial a number with a particular handsign integrated with a lightweight mobile device that is worn by the human being which can interpret hand signs. That would be the next possible leap in mobile interface unless we come out with technology that enables humans to give commands via brain waves to devices with equipment capable of detecting human brain waves and converting that to machine language that sends commands wirelessly over to another device, that would be the ultimate evolution i think.
Mobiles aided with NFC, touch, bluetooth and all round interactivity are going to create waves and ripples to bring about a revolution in the way we interact in physical and virtual worlds. The applications, interactions are limited to one's imagination.
A teaser article http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/11/02/digitalbiz.rfid/
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A hologram functionality embedded in handsets.
We have to bear in mind that what we nowadays consider as a Handset, a Terminal, a User Equipment, will in a very near future, embed lots of new technologies allowing to use the equipment by voice recognition (already existing, but is it really often used? ;-), why not linked with a hologram of the correspondant, or video-hologram functionalities, etc.
What we consider today as a end-user handset will act as a payment terminal, social security / medical card, video, broadband internet device, etc. without forgetting the initial Voice call function.
In fact, who knows?
As mobile devices become ubiquitous they will specialize and interface design patterns will emerge. Voice is definitely immature right now. My Blackberry’s voice dial feature has an extremely high error rate. There is no reason this couldn’t be improved, we have the technology. When doing tasks that require your hands to be free (like driving) voice is the best of the known paradigms.
Everyone is in awe of the iPhone touch interface. It has its advantages such as lack of moving parts and dynamic configuration of layout. However, touch isn’t the magic bullet. You can’t feel a touch screen to do touch typing. It’s hard to use one handed or while moving through an airport or in a bumpy car or train.
I think the real solution will be the evolution of both touch and keypads (like chorded ones), combined with voice and one more important thing—integration with other devices. The integration of Palm, and later RIM devices with desktops and servers was the key to their success. Sometimes the best solution is allowing users to grab information (Nokia E71 scans business cards) or interact with it via another device like a car dashboard or PC.
Once devices become more context aware they will also be able to be smarter, eliminating the need for some types of user input. They will just start reading things from the environment. I should be able to read barcodes or RFID tags and add them to my wish list on Amazon or my grocery list. My GPS enabled phone should know I’m driving to an appointment and offer directions to the address on my calendar.
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Rob M.
Senior Business Consultant EMEA - Telecoms Practice at RPOSearch (www.rpozone.com)
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Thought*
Sent from my 'subliminal thought' mobile management system.
*Patent pending
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Raja M.
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We have not explored much with speech.. watch the Nuance Mobile Open vSearch Demonstration. I could see lot of potential for speech, tactile and hybrid ones.
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suresh kumar A.
Optical Engineer ,Advanced Diabetes Care Technologies,BD Technologies at BD
Ya I would go with the voice interface to be used to send emails and messages ,as it might offer some potential
Beth L. suggests this expert on this topic:
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It is absolutely astonishing that the voice aspect of basic telephony is not used much more in mobile devices, both as voice-command (e.g., call up phone number, e-mail addresses, websites), or voice-text input and text-voice output (for messages, e-mails, documents).
This also should come into the laptop and desktop computing arena. When are we going to get rid of the keyboard and mouse?!?
Agree with Rob. Thought will be next. 60 minutes on last Sunday had a piece on PC brain interface.
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Sachendra Y.
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+1 for Thought :)
Voice-based UI won't be coming to mainstream anytime soon. Not just because of the technical problems but also because of the social and cognitive issues surrounding it.
Check out the link below that describes these issues in detail.
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I think that touch will still be the biggest thing as it evolves. I think it will complemented with adaptive UI capabilities, involving for example location and context. For example GDT tools that prioritize task based on you location and time (working hours at the office vs. weekend at the beach). But also used in command or shortcuts like used in Launchy (http://www.launchy.net/) or Quicksilver.(http://www.blacktree.com/) Or even how some services use twitter as an interface, like Remeber he Millk (http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/twitter/).
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Michael E.
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I like reading philosophical reasoning. It's entertaining.
Anyone have any cold hard facts we could peruse? Anyone?
The link to VoiceUI not being mainstream is not an answer. It's a link to someone Else's diatribe.
Anyone have anything concrete? hello? c'mon!
Here's what I know...
a. Half the people who use a voice app use it regularly. These are my own facts from my own experience, I didn't' make them up or philosophize about them, they're real.
b. Consumers WILL spend the time to make their lives more convenient (anyone have any counter evidence? post it along with your direct email address so I can respond).
c. Recognition doesn't have to be 100% for everyone. We're human. We're smart. "good enough" leads to an understanding, especially between known entities.
d. "Touch" sucks. It's better than what we "had" but not the ideal
So, that said, what is the real problem? Can you articulate the problem statement?
Is the problem really surrounding the input of information over a mobile phone or are you just doing market research?
I think the problem is that people tend to over think this.
