Interface Personalization

Linked Internet UIBy: Gerry Celeste

Introduction

• Do you use a Social Networking Service (SNS)?

• Many different communication channels– Twitter– Facebook– Flickr– LinkedIn

User Interfaces

• Mobile devices support communication and social services through three major user interfaces:– Mobile Web Browser– Mobile Applications– Mobile Widget

New Mobile UI

• LinkedUI– A new mobile UI to deliver social services and to

support communication channels– Fetches and links content from existing services– Uses hypertext navigation for presentation and

interaction

Two Key Ideas

• Service Aggregation– Combining multiple services or communication

channels in one system or UI• Hypertext Navigation– The structure of nodes and links as a medium of

thinking and communication for users

Hypertext Navigation

User Study

• 12 users (8 male, 4 female)

• Recruited through a mailing list

• Paid for their time

Experiment

• Test the usability of the benchmark device against the device with LinkedUI

• Three Tasks– Openly browse and think aloud– Follow a contact– Locate a Flickr photo and a Twitter post

Results

• 11 out of 12 participants preferred LinkedUI compared to the benchmark device.

Conclusions

• Users preferred the new approach• Eliminates shortcomings of web browser– Switching between apps– Delays loading web pages– Web pages not optimized for small screen

• Problems– Information overload

Critique

• Recent article- September 2010– Modern technology

• SNS are very popular• Easy to relate to the article• No strange vocabulary• Great use of images and graphs

Demonstration

• http://research.nokia.com/page/5457