{"title":"Simplifying the making of probes, prototypes and toolkits in mobile interaction research using tasker","authors":"S. Stigberg","doi":"10.1145/3098279.3122133","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a technique to support the making of mobile interaction interfaces for controlling the smartphone. We often use smartphones while moving, resulting in non-optimal or even unsafe interactions. Better mobile interactions need to be created with locomotion in mind and experienced in practice. But making and testing new interaction interfaces is time-consuming. It often involves the making of an input device; establishing a connection between device and smartphone; and implementing an application on the phone for testing interactions with the input device. This paper reports from three ongoing projects on how a commercial available automation tool called Tasker can be used for coupling phone functionalities to new input devices, eliminating the need for implementing a complete phone application, and enabling flexible, reusable, and easy making of interaction interfaces for smartphones.","PeriodicalId":120153,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3098279.3122133","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper presents a technique to support the making of mobile interaction interfaces for controlling the smartphone. We often use smartphones while moving, resulting in non-optimal or even unsafe interactions. Better mobile interactions need to be created with locomotion in mind and experienced in practice. But making and testing new interaction interfaces is time-consuming. It often involves the making of an input device; establishing a connection between device and smartphone; and implementing an application on the phone for testing interactions with the input device. This paper reports from three ongoing projects on how a commercial available automation tool called Tasker can be used for coupling phone functionalities to new input devices, eliminating the need for implementing a complete phone application, and enabling flexible, reusable, and easy making of interaction interfaces for smartphones.