Mobile Office

In 2000, Fishkin et. al for the first time introduced the notion of “mobile office”. They argued that for a mobile device, such as a 3Com Palm Pilot, users need to be able to produce new data and view and browse the information space via peripheral devices. However current interface design techniques in handheld devices have been copied from large screen design techniques, e.g., Windows Icon Menu Pointer (WIMP). Thanks to John who has forwarded this link to me Future of Smart Phones we see smart phone programmers have started rethinking about mobile application design to improve current bad interfaces. Then later we should wait for a revolution in mobile phones. Treating a mobile phone like N95 as a mobile office is just impossible now. See my early post.