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Widely Usable User Interfaces on Mobile Devices with RFID

Widely Usable User Interfaces on Mobile Devices with RFID

Francesco Bellotti, Riccardo Berta, Alessandro De Gloria, Massimiliano Margarone
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781605660523|ISBN10: 1605660523|EISBN13: 9781605660530
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-87828-991-9.ch078
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Bellotti, Francesco, et al. "Widely Usable User Interfaces on Mobile Devices with RFID." Human Computer Interaction: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Chee Siang Ang and Panayiotis Zaphiris, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 1234-1250. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-87828-991-9.ch078

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Bellotti, F., Berta, R., De Gloria, A., & Margarone, M. (2009). Widely Usable User Interfaces on Mobile Devices with RFID. In C. Ang & P. Zaphiris (Eds.), Human Computer Interaction: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1234-1250). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-87828-991-9.ch078

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Bellotti, Francesco, et al. "Widely Usable User Interfaces on Mobile Devices with RFID." In Human Computer Interaction: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Chee Siang Ang and Panayiotis Zaphiris, 1234-1250. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-87828-991-9.ch078

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Abstract

Diffusion of radio frequency identification (RFID) promises to boost the added value of assistive technologies for mobile users. Visually impaired people may benefit from RFID-based applications that support users in maintaining “spatial orientation” (Mann, 2004) through provision of information on where they are, and a description of what lies in their surroundings. To investigate this issue, we have integrated our development tool for mobile device, (namely: MADE, Bellotti, Berta, De Gloria, & Margarone, 2003), with a complete support for RFID tag detection, and implemented an RFID-enabled location-aware tour-guide. We have evaluated the guide in an . ecological context (fully operational application, real users, real context of use (Abowd & Mynatt, 2000)) during the EuroFlora 2006 international exhibition (EuroFlora). In this chapter, we describe the MADE enhancement to support RFID-based applications, present the main concepts of the interaction modalities we have designed in order to support visually impaired users, and discuss results from our field experience.

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