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Chapter 17
Empowering People Rather
Than Connecting Them
Roderick Murray-Smith
University of Glasgow, Scotland
ABSTRACT
This article discusses the consequences for the fundamentals of interaction design given the introduc-
tion of mobile devices with increased sensing capability. Location-aware systems are discussed as one
example of the possibilities. The article provides eight challenges to the mobile HCI research community,
and makes suggestions for how the International Journal of Mobile HCI could contribute to the field.
INTRODUCTION
my perspective on the fundamentals of interaction
design and the challenges we face, and which I
believe we need to address with our research and
development effort in the coming years.
The history of mobile interaction has been largely
about creating smaller and smaller devices with
more and more computing power, faster con-
nections and better displays. Now, increasingly,
mobile phones are being better equipped with more
sensing capability via physical sensors, and they
are accessing further information from the Internet
via sources which can be viewed as 'virtual sen-
sors'. These developments give users the chance
to create embodied interaction loops in a range
of novel ways. In this article I try to summarise
INTERACTION AS CLOSED-
LOOP DESIGN
In this article, one of the basic assumptions about
the fundamentals of interaction is that a user's be-
haviour is about them controlling their perceptions
(Powers, 1973). We view the closed loop between
user and phone as a dynamic system, where
designers can alter the feedback mechanisms in
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