A technique for incorporating dynamic paths in lab-based mobile evaluations

Murray Crease; Jo Lumsden; Bob Longworth

A technique for incorporating dynamic paths in lab-based mobile evaluations

Murray Crease, Jo Lumsden, Bob Longworth

Computer Science Research Group

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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 reallife 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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	People and computers XXI HCI...but not as we know it
Subtitle of host publication	proceedings of HCI 2007 : the 21st British HCI Group annual conference
Editors	Linden J. Ball, M. Angela Sasse, Corina Sas, Thomas C. Ormerod, Alan Dix, Peter Bagnall, Tom McEwan
Publisher	British Computer Society
Pages	99-108
Number of pages	10
Volume	1
ISBN (Print)	978-1-902505-94-7, 978-1-902505-95-4
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	21st British HCI Group annual conference - University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom Duration: 3 Sept 2007 → 7 Sept 2007

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Conference	21st British HCI Group annual conference
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Lancaster
Period	3/09/07 → 7/09/07

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Crease, M., Lumsden, J., & Longworth, B. (2007). A technique for incorporating dynamic paths in lab-based mobile evaluations. In L. J. Ball, M. A. Sasse, C. Sas, T. C. Ormerod, A. Dix, P. Bagnall, & T. McEwan (Eds.), People and computers XXI HCI...but not as we know it: proceedings of HCI 2007 : the 21st British HCI Group annual conference (Vol. 1, pp. 99-108). British Computer Society .

Crease, Murray ; Lumsden, Jo ; Longworth, Bob. / A technique for incorporating dynamic paths in lab-based mobile evaluations. People and computers XXI HCI...but not as we know it: proceedings of HCI 2007 : the 21st British HCI Group annual conference. editor / Linden J. Ball ; M. Angela Sasse ; Corina Sas ; Thomas C. Ormerod ; Alan Dix ; Peter Bagnall ; Tom McEwan. Vol. 1 British Computer Society , 2007. pp. 99-108

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Crease, M, Lumsden, J & Longworth, B 2007, A technique for incorporating dynamic paths in lab-based mobile evaluations. in LJ Ball, MA Sasse, C Sas, TC Ormerod, A Dix, P Bagnall & T McEwan (eds), People and computers XXI HCI...but not as we know it: proceedings of HCI 2007 : the 21st British HCI Group annual conference. vol. 1, British Computer Society , pp. 99-108, 21st British HCI Group annual conference, Lancaster, United Kingdom, 3/09/07.

A technique for incorporating dynamic paths in lab-based mobile evaluations. / Crease, Murray; Lumsden, Jo; Longworth, Bob.
People and computers XXI HCI...but not as we know it: proceedings of HCI 2007 : the 21st British HCI Group annual conference. ed. / Linden J. Ball; M. Angela Sasse; Corina Sas; Thomas C. Ormerod; Alan Dix; Peter Bagnall; Tom McEwan. Vol. 1 British Computer Society , 2007. p. 99-108.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Conference publication

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