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What is Interaction Modality

Chapter 43
Handbook of Research on Mobility and Computing: Evolving Technologies and Ubiquitous Impacts
the type of input or output that is associated to a specific interaction with a system. For instance, text input through a keyboard and text output through a terminal is a modality for interacting with a command-based user interface.
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Unobtrusive Interaction with Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Systems through Kinetic User Interfaces
Vincenzo Pallotta (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-042-6.ch043
Abstract
Unobtrusiveness is a key factor in usability of mobile and ubiquitous computing systems. These systems are made of several ambient and mobile devices whose goal is supporting everyday life users’ activities, hopefully without interfering with them. We intend to address the topic of obtrusiveness by assessing its impact in the design of interfaces for mobile and ubiquitous computing systems. We will make the case of how unobtrusive interfaces can be designed by means of Kinetic User Interfaces: an emerging interaction paradigm where input to system is provided through coordinated motion of objects and people in the physical space.
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