The latest edition, June 2008, of ACM’s Communications has a bumper selection of articles about Organic User Interfaces (OUIs). Organic User Interfaces have “non-planar displays that may actively or passively change shape via analog physical inputs”. The lead article describes these major attributes of OUIs:
Input equals output: where the display is the input device
Function equals [...]
Nokia concept video demonstrating adaptive form factors. Also a nice example of lo-fi video concepting.
(for those on the RSS, click the link for the video)
Link: YouTube – Nokia 888 Design (youtube.com)
“Let�s say user typed 25. It can be the beginning of the phone number. It may be 25 minutes timer. Or perhaps it�s 25 dollars he wishes to convert in some european currency. Or some code he doesn�t want to forget.”
Link: Adaptive Task-based Interface (mobiface.com)
So your mobile device is loaded with reams of data. How to get the stuff back out of it? Search it, of course. It seems to me, though, that the most of the useful data on mobile devices isn’t in text form.
“One strategy for dealing with this problem is to bring search capabilities to handsets. [...]
Published by Gabriel White.