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The Lack of Intelligent Design in Mobile Phones

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Mobile Human-Computer Interaction - MobileHCI 2004 (Mobile HCI 2004)

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This paper describes how the organization of the development of mobile phones may reduce usability and user satisfaction, and it suggests possible improvements to the development process. It compares the evolution of mobile phones with the evolution of animals and plants, and it describes how the evolution of mobile phones is driven by the competition between specific characteristics of phones; similar to the way organic evolution is driven by the competition between genes. It describes how characteristics of mobile phones compete both in markets and in development organizations, and criteria that determine which characteristics survive and spread in development organizations.

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 1, DK-2100, Cph. O., Denmark

    Georg Strom

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  1. Glasgow Interactive Systems Group, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, UK

    Stephen Brewster

  2. Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, G1 1XH, Glasgow, Scotland

    Mark Dunlop

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Strom, G. (2004). The Lack of Intelligent Design in Mobile Phones. In: Brewster, S., Dunlop, M. (eds) Mobile Human-Computer Interaction - MobileHCI 2004. Mobile HCI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3160. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28637-0_67

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