Human-Computer Interaction in Context-Aware Mobile Handheld Devices

Context-aware devices, which detect the use context in order to adapt the device behavior in appropriate means, provide challenging design tasks in the field of humancomputer interaction. Especially, mobile handheld devices form a potential group for context-aware applications, since they are used in various different kind of situations, and the prioritized applications and interaction styles can change dynamically. Special care for interaction and user interface design is needed for the limited size of input and output methods. Also, the device has to meet user’s demands as well in efficiency and acceptability as with the ethical issues in privacy and control. This paper draws together aspects of human-computer interaction in context-aware mobile handheld devices, and introduces author’s research plan for the considered topic.