Applying Hci Design Patterns to Pda Applications on Art Museums

Abstract

Mobile activities such as m-commerce, m-learning, etc, are being increasingly adopted by people. Actually, new mobile activities are being explored, and one of them is supporting Augmented and Immersive Reality (A&IR) features on physical spaces. An example of this vision is exposed in at The Cutlery Museum in Albacete, know as MCA in Spain. Based on users' suggestions and usability reports, we discovered a set problems and improvements that could leverage HCI in a future new version of the application. To design the new version we used HCI design patterns for Space Structured Applications (SSA). As MCA application is a SSA, this paper presents a proposal of a new version of UI for the MCA application applying these patterns.