| Download | - View accepted manuscript: A technique for incorporating dynamic paths in lab-based mobile evaluations (PDF, 421 KB)
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| Author | Search for: Crease, Murray; Search for: Lumsden, Joanna; Search for: Longworth, B. |
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Proceedings title | Proceedings of The 21rst British Computer Society (BCS) HCI Annual Conference |
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| Conference | The 21rst British Computer Society (BCS) HCI Annual Conference, September 3, 2007, Lancaster, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract | Increasingly, lab evaluations of mobile applications are incorporating mobility. The inclusion of mobility alone, however, is insufficient to generate a realistic evaluation context since real-life users will typically be required to monitor their environment while moving through it. While field evaluations represent a more realistic evaluation context, such evaluations pose difficulties including data capture and environmental control which mean that a lab-based evaluation is often a more practical choice. This paper describes a novel evaluation technique that mimics a realistic mobile usage context in a lab setting. The technique requires that participants monitor their environment and change the route they are walking to avoid dynamically changing hazards (much as real-life users would be required to do). Two studies that employed this technique are described, and the results (which indicate the technique is useful) are discussed. |
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| Publication date | 2007 |
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| Language | English |
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| NRC number | NRCC 49366 |
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| NPARC number | 8914004 |
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| Export citation | Export as RIS |
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| Report a correction | Report a correction |
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Record identifier | 6deb17a9-e15e-4836-b19b-871978af4ef8 | | Record created | 2009-04-22 |
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| Record modified | 2020-08-12 |
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