NDLI: Usability and Implementation Experiences with COTS Products used as a Distributed Client Platform

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Wagner, S. Nielsen, C.C.
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: Proces Data A/S, Silkeborg (Nielsen, C.C.) \|\| Eng. Coll. of Aarhus, Aarhus (Wagner, S.)
Abstract	This paper conveys some of the experiences with using commercial off-the-shel (COTS) products as clients to Bluetooth enabled devices, which have no user interface of their own, but relies on the COTS products for user interaction. The COTS devices used include several different vendors' models of the microsoft Pocket PC platform (also known as windows mobile professional or classic) running .NET compact framework, as well as a number of different models of Java enabled cell phones from nokia, siemens and sony-ericsson. The specific case study is with the Taxmaster4 Windows mobile product used with BMW automobiles as a driving log application. The paper concludes that many usability problems exist when using COTS products. These may to some extend be overcome by pragmatic design decisions, but it is necessary that the COTS products hardware platform and application programming interfaces should become better suited to support distributed user interfaces than is the case today. This includes better support for basic user interface elements as well as supporting Bluetooth and other wireless technologies more reliably. These issues should be addressed by the vendors and manufactures of these platforms, not the application programmers.
Starting Page	399
Ending Page	404
File Size	878716
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424420209
DOI	10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783619
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-10-06
Publisher Place	Egypt
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Pervasive computing Wireless Java Bluetooth ActiveSync Automobiles PDA cell phone Programming profession Vehicles HCI mobile computing Windows Mobile usability Cellular phones COTS Pocket PC User interfaces Usability Personal digital assistants
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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