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MobPro

MobPro is an internationally acknowledged award winning prototyping and evaluation environment of mobile user interfaces. It includes tools that allow designers to create low-fidelity (e.g., sketch-based) and high-fidelity prototypes for mobile user interfaces, also providing the ability to interact with them on actual devices.

Sketches can be augmented with behaviour and used on mobile devices, gathering data both passively (e.g., logs) and actively (e.g., ESM, questionnaires).
MobPro also supports the analysis of the gathered data and other techniques such as contextual card-sorting.

Technology:
Desktop - C#, XML, SQL Server
Mobile – C# Compact Framework 3.5, XML

Applications:
MobPro has been used by several design teams during the design of mobile applications for various domains.

OmniSCOPE

OmniSCOPE is an award winning set of tools that extend SCOPE’s goals by including multimodalities, behaviour and design guidelines to support the design, by end-users, of mobile, multimodal, proactive applications.

The design process is wizard-based and supported by mobile design guidelines (e.g., layout, element size and location).
OmniSCOPE includes video, audio, images and text elements that can be augmented with behaviour (e.g., interactive images, gestures) improving adequacy to specific domains and contexts.

Technology:
Desktop - C#, XML, SQL Server
Mobile – C# Compact Framework 3.5, XML

Applications:
OmniSCOPE is being tested and used by speech and aphasia therapists, physiotherapists and psychotherapists.

SCOPE

SCOPE’s goals were to endow psychotherapy experts with the ability to configure and develop personalized tools to support Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy on mobile devices (Java/PalmOS).

The resulting tools for desktop support patient management and therapy definition. For the mobile devices (PalmOS/Java), therapists can create annotations and patients can complete homework

Technology:
Desktop – Java, PL-SQL, ASP, HTML
Mobile – Java ME, MIDP 1.0/2.0
Sync  – Java Conduits and JDBC

Applications:

Used by therapists and patients for anxiety and depression associated disorders in PalmOS mobile devices and desktop computers.

JoinTS

JoinTS aimed at providing therapists with tools to manage and support group therapy sessions by including tools for mobile devices (e.g., TabletPCs, UMPCs and PDAs) that allow the distribution of content to session participants that can be viewed and user on their mobile devices.

The user interfaces were specifically designed and optimised for Touch Screen devices.

An alternative versions was also developed and user to support m-learning and e-learning activities (e.g., for school classes and outside activities).

Technology:
Desktop – C#, XML, SQL Server
Mobile  – C# Compact Framework, XML
Sync – XML

Applications:
Used by therapists and teachers.

ScWiz

JScWiz is a tool that allows end-users (e.g., psychotherapists) to create mobile applications for patients to engage on diagnosis and therapy procedures while away from the therapist.
The wizard supports a step-by-step design including the definition of the mobile tools’ presentation and interaction options.

Technology:
Desktop - C#, SQL Server, XML
PocketPC – C#, XML

Applications:

Used by psychotherapists and their patients to treat pain associated disorders. User in a hospital to treat oncology patients.

Mobile Prototype(r)

The mobile prototype(r) is parte of the MobPro framework and its goals are to support in-situ prototyping and the adjustment of interactive prototypes for mobile devices directly on the mobile devices that they target.

The resulting tools include means for users to adjust, add and remove visual components, configure navigation constraints and integrated UI design guidelines that support on-the-fly design sessions.

Technology:
Mobile – C# Compact Framework 3.5, XML

Applications:

Mobile UCD

Researched and introduced several contributions to the field of Mobile Interaction Design acknowledged at the most relevant HCI conferences, through journals and book chapters.
Techniques and contributions applied in several real world projects (e.g., digital white cane for the visually impaired; mobile GPS; Elderly mobile companion).

• Techniques for in-situ mobile prototyping
• Techniques for out-of-the-lab contextual evaluation
• Video capturing kits
• Scenario and Persona Generation Frameworks
• New models for context representation
• Active and Passive evaluation techniques
• Guerrila mobile evaluation approaches