Designing Tangible User Interfaces for NFC Phones. (23rd January 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pyykkönen Pyykkönen, Mikko Mikko; Riekki Riekki, Jukka Jukka; Alakärppä Alakärppä, Ismo Ismo; Sanchez Sanchez, Ivan Ivan; Cortes Cortes, Marta Marta; Saukkonen Saukkonen, Sonja Sonja
• Other Names: Kiyokawa Kiyokawa Kiyoshi Kiyoshi Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Advances in human-computer interaction. Volume 2012(2012)
• Publication Date: 2012-01-23
• Subjects: Human-computer interaction -- Periodicals; Human-computer interaction; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 004.019
• DOI: 10.1155/2012/575463
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1687-5893

Abstract

Abstract : The increasing amount of NFC phones is attracting application developers to utilize NFC functionality. We can hence soon expect a large amount of mobile applications that users command by touching NFC tags in their environment with their NFC phones. The communication technology and the data formats have been standardized by the NFC Forum, but there are no conventions for advertising to the users NFC tags and the functionality touching the tags triggers. Only individual graphical symbols have been suggested when guidelines for advertising a rich variety of functionality are called for. In this paper, we identify the main challenges and present our proposal, a set of design guidelines based on more than twenty application prototypes we have built. We hope to initiate discussion and research resulting in uniform user interfaces for NFC-based services.