Designing Software for the Mobile Context

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Designing Applications for 3G Mobile Devices

   • Avril Hodges, Jolie Bories, Ronan Mandel

   Pages 1-31

3. Designing Voice Application

   • Jennifer Balogh, Nicole Leduc

   Pages 33-53

4. Designing J2ME™ Applications: MIDP and UI Design

   • Annette Wagner, Cynthia Bloch

   Pages 55-77

5. Designing Multimodal Applications

   • David Cuka, Tasos Anastasakos

   Pages 79-108

6. Heuristics for Designing Mobile Applications

   • Roman G. Longoria, Mick McGee, Eric Nash

   Pages 109-134

7. A Development Process for Advanced User Interfaces of Wireless Mobile Devices

   • Aaron Marcus

   Pages 135-150

8. Back Matter

   Pages 151-152

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Roman Longoria The goal of this book is to provide a useful and timely guide to the practitioner who designs or develops mobile applications. The contributors to this book are leaders in the user interface (UI) community actively working in mobile platform technol­ ogy and mobile application design. Thus, this book offers the reader unique insight into the latest technologies, market trends, design ideas, and usability data. We provide the reader with the latest information that will have direct and immediate impact on a broad scope of product design decisions, including those for voice, phone, and personal digital assistant (PDA) applications. In other words, this book is written by practitioners, for practitioners. When I approached my coauthors about writing a chapter, I had only a few criteria. First, each author should have unique experience and expertise about a certain aspect of mobile applications. Second, that the authors be able to provide an introduction to the technologies with which they work. Third, that each chapter include case studies and lessons learned from empirical usability evaluations. And fourth, that each author include in the chapter some fundamental knowledge that they wish they had known when they got started designing for the mobile context.

• Telecommunications
• User interfaces and HCI
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• mobile communications
• mobile design
• mobile technologies
• multimodal interaction
• usability
• user interface

• Computer Associates Intl., Houston, USA

  Roman Longoria

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