Thomas Rochford, Jisc Regional Support Centre

Mobile Users and Handheld Devices

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Some Issues ….

• Users or Devices ?

• Moving or Stationary ?

1. What do we mean by ‘Mobile’ ?

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Mobile Users

… may wish to access their information from a very wide range of locations and devices. They may not always be Human!

Mobile Devices

… can be trivially moved, virtually or physically between these locations. These locations may have no geographic co-ordinates, i.e. cloud-based

Some Issues ……

• Diversity of Devices

• Wearable, driveable, flyable, embedded, handheld and even laptops & desktops

• Diversity of Platforms

• Android, Apple, Windows

• Diversity of Locations

• Internet Availability issues

• Public vs. Private spaces

• Indoors vs. outdoors

• Diversity of Accessibility

• Permanent vs. Short term.

2. Coping with Diversity

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Focus on two extremesTesco Hudl

•Entry level Tablet (£119)

•Well featured (Android 4.2.2.)

•Good Build

•Good Battery Life

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Android Mini PC (K9, MK809)

•Very Cheap (under £40)

•Well featured Android 4.2.2

•Needs ‘monitor’, power & input device

•Highly customisable

Supporting Diversity

»HTML 5 + CSS 3 for Design and Delivery

»Javascript for Animation

»XML for Data.

»Cloud/Web Storage. (Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive etc).

»MP4 (video), MP3 (audio).

»PNG or GIF (Graphics), JPG (Photos).

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Thank you!

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