The Era of Mobile Devices Consider a mobile device (such as a smartphone or tabl

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The Era of Mobile Devices Consider a mobile device (such as a smartphone or tablet). What difficulties might people encounter in using the device for the first time? What difficulties might people have in understanding how to use it and what to do with it? How would they go about learning how to use it? Write short notes (about one side of a page) on some of these issues you have identified, classifying them as anthropometric, behavioral, cognitive, or social. Think about what design changes you might make to the device to make it easier for novices to use. The World Around Us Select something you use every day that you think is well designed. Think about why this is well designed. You may wish to consider esthetics, mappings of actions to responses, how you learned to use it, and what kinds of mistakes or errors you still make. Your Personal Homepage As a student registered in INFSCl 2545, you are required to build your personal homepage using weebly.com (strongly advised) or wix.com. Your homepage should be only one HTML file.

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Hand anthropometry:
Different hand anthropometries measured for mobile phone and keypad design factors.
1.Users with small hands might find it difficult to hold large mobile phones and users with large hands might find it difficult to hold small mobile phones,
2. Hand breadth was measured to test if it affects users` satisfaction towards mobile phone design factors.
Hand breadth was measured at the distal ends of the metacarpal bones (the joints of index finger to the little finger) with the hand held straight and flat
3.Thumb length might affect users` reachability of the keys whereas users with large thumbs might find it cumbersome keying in messages via the tiny keys.
Thumb length was measured from the second joint of the thumb to the tip of the thumb whereas thumb circumference was measured at the widest point of the thumb

The effect of hand anthropometry carried out on on SMS satisfaction based on hand-size, thumb length and circumference measurements helped to draw following results :

• Smaller hand-sized users are more satisfied with the mobile phone dimensions than larger hand-sized users, with regards to holding the mobile phone and messaging at the same time,
• The increase of thumb circumference decreases users` satisfactions towards key size and space between keys as messaging becomes tedious due to accidentally hitting the wrong keys,
• The increase of thumb length decreases users` satisfactions towards keypad layout as accessing some of the keys becomes difficult and sometimes causes pain in the thumbs,
• All the above problems were reported regardless of the text entry method used to enter text.

Customized mobile phones have been designed to suit the elder people (Croasmun, 2005) and also kids (Budnick, 2005) to improve usability and increase satisfactions.
With this in mind, the results can be used to design customized mobile phones that suit users with larger hands and thumbs or
even enhance the current designs to increase the satisfaction among all mobile phone users.

Behaviour and Cognitive problems faced by First time mobile phone users -

1. Downloading too many apps that you forget which page they’re on.
2. Unlocking your phone with a pin code but you can’t reach it with your thumb.
3. Getting a phone that won’t fit in your pocket.
4. Getting a SIM card and the seller can’t cut to fit nano format
5. Downloading a file which has numbers as its name, and you can’t find it later on.
6. Low battery and there aren’t any electrical sockets in sight.
7. Free WiFi but it’s slower than your grandmother.
8. Wanting to download a mobile game but being really stingy on your data.
9. Wanting to post a Snapchat update but data connection is weak.
10. Going to the toilet but you forget to bring your phone in with you.
11. Not having enough memory on your phone so you have to delete some apps.
12. Wanting to take a picture from a distance but zooming kills the clarity.

Question 2 - 'Faith' developed between me and My parents -

I would refer Faith as well designed object which helps me to take every step in order to succeed in life.
This faith which i have developed in me due to immense love provided by my parents helps me to take each and every action with the confidence.
I get a feeling that i will surely score positiveness in whatever i do.
My parents taught me to be proud of my rainy heritage and to never give upon my dreams.
I thank my parents for showing me that Spirit of god's love is endless and his kindness will always be with me.
They taught me how to be fearless in the face of fear and enculcated the strenght in me to face all the challlenges with the spirit to conquer them.
It is all because of their faith in me that i am a respectable citizen today in this world.

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