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AnyPhone: mobile applications for everyone

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Eric Paulos,

August Joki,

Parul Vora,

Anthony BurkeAuthors Info & Claims

DUX '07: Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing for User eXperiences

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Published: 05 November 2007 Publication History

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The mobile phone is one of the most commonly carried pieces of personal, readily accessible digital technologies. Beyond just voice calls, they function as digital cameras, PDAs, internet consoles, and email and instant messaging clients. The demand for improved operating systems and programming languages has given rise to a wide range of hardware and programming APIs. However, the designers of these mobile phone applications are continuously challenged with two inescapable aggravations: (1) how will users locate and download the application to their mobile phone and (2) will the application be compatible with their phone's hardware? We undertook the challenge to discover the design space of mobile phone applications that required no downloading or installation procedure and would operate on any mobile phone regardless of the phone's network, carrier, operating system, age, or hardware. We developed and deployed two such applications - Tree-Map Arrival Information and Group Voting.

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DUX '07: Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing for User eXperiences

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DOI:10.1145/1389908

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Bishop J(2011)The Role of Augmented E-Learning Systems for Enhancing Pro-Social Behaviour in Socially Impaired IndividualsAssistive and Augmentive Communication for the Disabled10.4018/978-1-60960-541-4.ch009(248-272)Online publication date: 2011
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-541-4.ch009
Hussain ZSlany WWang JBoujemaa NRamirez NNatsev A(2010)Analyzing real mobile web usage of a multimedia streaming application through log filesProceedings of the international conference on Multimedia information retrieval10.1145/1743384.1743452(401-404)Online publication date: 29-Mar-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1743384.1743452

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