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Mona Singh
Anuj K. Jain
Munindar P. Singh
Electronic Commerce
Proceedings of the 1st ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Denver, Colorado, United States
Pages: 177 - 186
Year of Publication: 1999
ISBN:1-58113-176-3
Excepr of Abstract: [...] Communicators pose major technical challenges because of their physical limitations and likely modes of usage. They offer small screens for presentation, difficult input, low bandwidth, and intermittent and unreilable connectivity. Further, people use theur Cimminuicators while on the run, in awkward situations, and may break, lose, or have their Communicators stolen. We describe an approach that addresses the above challendes while retaining the convenience of using Communicators. This approach integrates innovations in user interfaces and backend systems for information acces and transactions.
My Discussion:
Seems to have been written before smartphones were on the radar. Their concept smartphone is actually quite big and has a keyboard, which makes the keyboard entry problem easier than it actually is right now. The interesting attribute that you don't see discussed much in other papers is that communicators can be damaged or lost, and that hus it should be possible to reconstruct the users' world on a new machine. The way they achieve this and other input-easing tricks is by assuming every Smartphone is paired with a server deciated to the smartphone that keeps much iof the user's transactions and data. (Just like ... does now.) The novel idea for easing website e-commerce transactions is 'shortcuts' which is almost a form of scripting: it involves letting the user look at the browsing history tree and amalgamate the entries to be performed in sequence including form entry as a macro. This would make navigating to known areas easier (do log-in in portal, go to home page, select buy item in portal page, etc), where then new input can be given.
Mona Singh
Anuj K. Jain
Munindar P. Singh
Electronic Commerce
Proceedings of the 1st ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Denver, Colorado, United States
Pages: 177 - 186
Year of Publication: 1999
ISBN:1-58113-176-3
Excepr of Abstract: [...] Communicators pose major technical challenges because of their physical limitations and likely modes of usage. They offer small screens for presentation, difficult input, low bandwidth, and intermittent and unreilable connectivity. Further, people use theur Cimminuicators while on the run, in awkward situations, and may break, lose, or have their Communicators stolen. We describe an approach that addresses the above challendes while retaining the convenience of using Communicators. This approach integrates innovations in user interfaces and backend systems for information acces and transactions.
My Discussion:
Seems to have been written before smartphones were on the radar. Their concept smartphone is actually quite big and has a keyboard, which makes the keyboard entry problem easier than it actually is right now. The interesting attribute that you don't see discussed much in other papers is that communicators can be damaged or lost, and that hus it should be possible to reconstruct the users' world on a new machine. The way they achieve this and other input-easing tricks is by assuming every Smartphone is paired with a server deciated to the smartphone that keeps much iof the user's transactions and data. (Just like ... does now.) The novel idea for easing website e-commerce transactions is 'shortcuts' which is almost a form of scripting: it involves letting the user look at the browsing history tree and amalgamate the entries to be performed in sequence including form entry as a macro. This would make navigating to known areas easier (do log-in in portal, go to home page, select buy item in portal page, etc), where then new input can be given.
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