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KISS the Tram: Exploring the PDA as Support for Everyday Activities

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Most of today’s common PDA applications do not leverage the prospects of the PDA. We want to explore PDAs and other mobile devices as new media, focusing on their unique qualities, not as limited PCs. Moreover, we focus on support for everyday life. We present a user test of an application for catching the tram based on this approach, as well as guidance from the ever relevant principle “Keep it simple, stupid!”

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  1. Norwegian Computing Center (NR), Oslo, Norway

    Thorstein Lunde & Arve Larsen

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  1. College of Computing and GVU Center, Georgia Tech, 801 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280, USA

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Lunde, T., Larsen, A. (2001). KISS the Tram: Exploring the PDA as Support for Everyday Activities. In: Abowd, G.D., Brumitt, B., Shafer, S. (eds) Ubicomp 2001: Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2201. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45427-6_19

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