A Critical Review on Participation in Mobile Interaction Design Research

This paper presents a review on participation in mobile interaction design research, analyzing 158 publications regarding user involvement and design method. Results show that user involvement in general is applied when evaluating interaction artifacts. In the typical mobile interaction design study a prototype is developed and 14 students are recruited for user testing. They have to fill out a questionnaire and are asked about their op nion in a concluding interview. Additional user participation during the design process could lead to new insights for mobile interaction design and provide new knowledge to the research community. Here I discuss three opportunities for further participation |n mobile interaction design research.