THE ARTICLE: UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR MOBILE PHONES: A CASE STUDYBy Plos Ornella and

Buisine Stéphanie

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A CASE STUDY

Adapting mobile phones’ physical device to people with: Visual impairment Hearing impairment Dexterity impariment

Avoid the stigmatizing effect

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USER NEEDS ANALYSIS

The existing products are usually expensive, socially discriminating or unknown to the user

Large-scale survey which problems/preferences

The product needs to be both stylish and functional

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RESULTSVisually impaired people

Hard-to-feel buttonsTo small font size on screen and

keyboardBad luminosity and/or contrast

Hearing imparied peopleVideophone is not widespreadPrefer numerical keyboard and

predictive text-input system (T9)Visual and vibrating alerts are

necessary

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RESULTS

Elderly people Use mobile phones for spoken communication Need large font size on screen and keyboard Too small key space Insufficent audio ring volume

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DESIGN TRENDS ANALYSIS Mobile phones are submitted to design

trends

They intended to design a mobile phone with a high simplicity and a moderate innovative design

6 designers gathered a large sample of pictures of existing mobile phones Organized them into a semantic map

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CONCLUSION

Selected 4 mobile phones which were made into mock-ups• 1. mockup: positiv feedback on the asymmetry• 2. mockup: minimal buttons, can be used for

navigation

The mock-ups do not look like existing products

Limitation; no graphical designer on the team

The study needs analysis and design spedifications

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MOCK-UPS

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OUR PROJECT -LOPOTLocationbased Profile Updating Service/Lokasjonsbasert ProfilOppdateringsTjeneste

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OUR IDEA

Get the location of your friends at campus

Get students in touch with each other

Use the cell phone to get a users position View on a map or in a list

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OUR QUESTIONS TO ANSWER

Who are the target group? Student and employees at UiO

Are there any negative consequences with a location based service? Criminality Privacy Awkward situations

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OUR QUESTIONS TO ANSWER

Is there a need for this kind of service? Survey on students use of social communities

Which similar services do already exist? Google Latitude, Brightkite Facebook and Twitter are launching

locationbased applications

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OUR QUESTIONS TO ANSWER

It this possible to implement? Technology

Outside; GPS Inside; WLAN/Bluetooth

Platforms Affordable/Accessible Android Symbian Windows Mobile

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TO BE CONTINUED…

Decide accuracy Design a prototype Second survey

Evaluation

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