Monday, 31 March 2014

Topic 6: Ubiquitous devices positive and negative usability issues

SixthSense

Sixth Sense is an inch category wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around users with digital information and allows users to use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

The interaction type is “Exploring”.

The positive areas of usability are with simple hand gestures the users can zoom in and out, take photos and perform a multitude of tasks.

The negative areas of usability are as the hand gestures are dependent on the camera, the gestures might be able to be detected in low light or in the dark.






Samsung Galaxy Gear

The Samsung Galaxy Gear is an inch category based ubiquitous device.

The interaction type is “Manipulating”.


The positive areas are that it is easy to navigate across the different menus, by swiping left or right to traverse the screen for notification or music. By swiping down the camera and be accessed and upwards will display the dial pad to make calls. The user can wake up the device by raising their arm and looking at the display. 

The negative areas are that the notifications are only in the main clock display and to access the music controller the user has to tap a miniature icon to get to the tunes.










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