Emerging research frontiers in mobile interface design

Summary form only given. Mobile devices offer today crucial support to a plethora of daily activities for nearly everyone. Ranging from checking business mails while traveling, to accessing social networks while in a mall, to carrying out business transactions while out of office, to using all kinds of online public services, mobile devices play the important role to connect people while physically apart. Modern mobile interfaces are therefore expected to improve the user´s interaction experience with the surrounding environment and offer different adaptive views of the real world. In this talk I will discuss some of the emerging challenges in designing mobile interfaces, with special focus on how human physical, cognitive and social needs can be leveraged so as to provide reach and pleasant interaction features.