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Service History: The Challenge of the `Back button' in Mobile Context-aware Systems

Hinze, A., M�ller, K. and Buchanan, G.

    This paper discusses the challenge of providing effective interaction for navigating a user's browsing history in context-aware mobile services. Mobile systems are often composed of a number of services, and navigation must be understood both in terms of a single service and of movement between different services over time. The semantics of simple navigational steps such as �back" and �forward" becomes much more complex than on traditional interfaces, and there is also a need to understand the difference between navigation based on the user's actual physical context (i.e. their real location) and exploratory navigation at a different virtual site. The challenges of composition and geography both need to be effectively addressed to build a complete and usable history of a user's interaction with the system.
Cite as: Hinze, A., M�ller, K. and Buchanan, G. (2012). Service History: The Challenge of the `Back button' in Mobile Context-aware Systems. In Proc. Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC 2012) Melbourne, Australia. CRPIT, 126. Shen, H. and Smith, R. T. Eds., ACS. 89-90
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