20. Can the mobile user interface be enhanced in the future?

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  • The characteristics of mobile user Interface (UI)

Mobile handsets are limited on their hardware features unlike big wired devices. For example, smaller screen and memory capacity, lower CPU speed, etc. As a result, mobile handset UI has been poor and required advanced technologies in the area of voice recognition, key input methodology, platform and service UI, etc.

  • Voice Recognition (VR)

In Korea, KAIST Voice Interface Laboratory and ETRI is studying actively voice recognition (VR) based technology. Korean government has invested in voice recognition area since 2001.

Voice recognition technology has proven its values in the industry area as well as academic values. There are competitive Korean VR companies like VoiceWare, SL2, etc. Their VR success rate reaches to 97% and continued VR is possible.

VR industry now is very interested in embedded voice technology market. Voice chips will be embedded in small products such as handset, PDA, appliances, etc.

  • Platform Technology

The platform technology has made progress in platform and service UI. The following is one of the examples and other platforms will also enhance their competitiveness in UI.

Just a few years ago, mobile phone users were introduced to basic user interface (UI) customization capabilities that allowed them to personalize their devices with ringtones and wallpapers. Industry research confirmed that the consumer market was ready and willing to quickly adopt these basic mobile data services. Unfortunately, many of these exciting new data services from device manufacturers and operators were buried deep in the native UI or mobile device browser. This required end users to go through many steps beyond the home screen and main menus of the native UI to actually locate and enable the service. It was at best, a very frustrating user experience.

Today, QUALCOMM’s uiOne addresses the issue by providing the deepest, richest consumer experience ever offered on a mobile device. uiOne can be leveraged across a wide range of handset tiers which benefits everyone in the value chain – device manufacturers are able to meet operator’s customized UI requirements faster, more cost-efficiently and with deeper reach into device capabilities while continuing to differentiate their handsets; operators are able to customize and brand their devices across a broad portfolio of handsets; and end users get one one-click access to the best data services available. This is uiOne.

Voice Interface Laboratory http://vilab.kaist.ac.kr/
BREW uiOne http://brew.qualcomm.com/brew/en/about/uione.html

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