May 2009
Awards Entry: Texture Messaging
Texture messaging is a cross-network, cross-platform messaging service that enhances SMS by allowing the user to attach different elements to their text message.
Using haptic technology, the user can control and manipulate the physical feedback the recipient feels when reading a message by choosing to attach and personalise five variables to their message; light, vibration, texture, […]
Awards Entry: Mobile Zakat Fitrah
Zakat Fitrah is alms given to the poor and needy, at the end of the fasting in the Islamic holy month of Ramadhan. It is obligatory on the head of the family to give Zakat Fitrah of all persons (including servants of both sexes of any cast or creed) that take food in his house.
Zakat […]
Awards Entry: Point’N’Seek
Point ‘n’ Seek provides user centred search facilities through its ‘Torchlight’ functionality where the region around the users or the object the user is pointing at is scanned by a search beam whose width is selectable by the use or alternatively a search beam is presented in the direction of the object the user is […]
Awards Entry: Delta II Keypad Matrix
The ingenious Delta II modified QWERTY matrix affords slim keypads having large buttons, fast typing speeds, short learning curve, and simple operation. Ideal for both touchscreen and button based phones.
Awards Entry: The Doo Phone
The ‘Doo Phone’ is a mobile phone interface that is the easiest in the world to use no matter what your capabilities. The motivation for developing this interface came from Rhys Cooper’s work with people who have an intellectual disability but the interface is suitable for everyone.
The phone interface works by firstly eliminating any menu […]
Video interview: Nuance and the user experience of multiple input modalities
Philippe Jeanrenaud, Marketing Director at Nuance, talks to Marek Pawlowski, founder of the MEX Conference, about the user experience of supporting multiple input modalities on mobile devices, including voice recognition and predictive text.
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Video interview: Immersion, haptics and the tactile experience
Terence Warmbier, Director of Business Development for Immersion Corporation, talks to Marek Pawlowski, founder of the MEX Conference, about touchscreens, haptics, tactile experience, emotional design and the user experience.
This video rel…
Awards Entry: SuperTV – the ideal mobile TV & VOD experience
SuperTV offers an unprecedented TV-like mobile experience designed and developed specifically based on user preferences for their ideal mobile entertainment service. Behind the aesthetic graphic interface, is a complex integration of intuitive user interface logic, content management and sophisticated exploitation of limited cellular environment to create this optimal mobile entertainment experience where, for the first […]