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Exploring touch-based phone interaction with tagged physical objects : exemplified using near-field communication
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Today, mobile phones provide a versatile platform that is able to support a multitude
of new applications. However, an inherent obstacle with mobile phones is their limited
output capabilities. This poses constraints on the user's ability to find and interact with
the software applications installed due to factors such as the limited screen size of the
device. The goal of the herein work is to extend the phone's user interface to the
physical environment. The user's interactions with the physical environment are
through phone touches; thus, explicit and direct. Moreover, in addition to the
environment providing spatial awareness visually, the phones also lend their
capabilities (e.g. input modalities, display, storage, etc.) to the interaction.
The approach taken in this thesis is to support touch-based object interaction through
the use of tagging technologies. This involves augmenting the physical environment
with devices that can be sensed by the phone. If the data stored on the device
represents the physical object, the phone can effectively sense this object.
Furthermore, the advantage of tagging technologies is the freedom provided to create
a variety of different user interfaces. Currently, the majority of implemented solutions
focus on single-tag interaction paradigms whereby the phone reads only one tag to
accomplish a goal. In order to explore the potential of touch-based mobile interaction
further, mUltiple touches (using multiple tags) could be concatenated to achieve
expressive interactions. The contribution of this project is the fut1her analysis of
touch-based object interactions and the creation of guidelines for the development of
such systems, as well as to establish developer supp0l1 for the future development.
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