CSCI-588: Specification
and Design of User Interface Software
Fall 2004
Team
22: Remote Control Cellular Phone
Team
Member
1) Huan-Chi Lin
2) Qi Guo
3) Shen Liu
While
wireless internet access becomes more common today, its high
cost,
for both the equipments and service, makes it a not very
accessible
communication gateway for most of the users who desire for
mobility. The
contemporary cellular network is one of the most common and
well-established telecommunication networks, which is designed
for mobility of
communication at an affordable cost. As Figure 1 shows, our
system will
allow users using the existing cellular network to dial-in
and establish
communication interface with their home computer and perform
pre-programmed
tasks on the computer remotely. Potentially, if the interfaces
are
established between various home appliances, such as air
conditioner, and
the home computer, our system can send command to the home
appliances as
well. Beside the technical challenges within the establishment
of the
communication interface between the cellular phone and the
home computer,
there are several user interface challenges within our system.
For
example, the size of the cellular phone’s display will dictate
the amount
of information that we can display, thus a challenge for
our system’s user
interface that reside on the phone. Our system must provide
a well-
designed GUI for users from different backgrounds to program
the functions
that they can later perform remotely on the computer. The
same GUI will have to be able to dynamically
create the user interface for the cellular
phones, so that users can interact with an up-to-date list
of pre-programmed functions on their phones. Our preliminary
research indicates
that such system does not exist in either the public research
or the
commercial product domain.
