(New Book) Mobile Interactions in Context, by Jesper Kjeldskov

I am pleased to announce the latest title in Morgan & Claypool's series on
Human-Centered Informatics:



Mobile Interactions in Context: A Designerly Way Toward Digital Ecology
Jesper Kjeldskov, Aalborg University
Paperback ISBN: 9781627052252, $40.00
eBook ISBN: 9781627052269
November 2013, 119 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00584ED1V01Y201406HCI021 

Abstract:

This book presents a contextual approach to designing contemporary
interactive mobile computer systems as integral parts of ubiquitous
computing environments. Interactive mobile systems, services, and devices
have become functional design objects that we care deeply about. Although
their look, feel, and features impact our everyday lives as we orchestrate
them in concert with a plethora of other computing technologies, these
artifacts are not well understood or created through traditional methods of
user-centered design and usability engineering. Contrary to more traditional
IT artifacts, they constitute holistic user experiences of value and
pleasure that require careful attention to the variety, complexity, and
dynamics of their usage. Hence, the design of mobile interactions proposed
in this book transcends existing approaches by using the ensemble of form
and context as its central unit of analysis. As such, it promotes a
designerly way of achieving convergence between form and context through a
contextually grounded, wholeness sensitive, and continually unfolding
process of design.  <http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00584ED1V01Y201406HCI021>
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