MARISIL – User Interface Framework for Future Mobile

Mobile mediaphone is personal wireless telecommunication device foreseen to come within the next three to five years along the 3 generation broadband mobile networks, known as UMTS and IMT2000. The mediaphone will enable a range of advanced multimedia services, such as personal navigation, mobile shopping, multimedia entertainment, interactive games, and telepresence. Mediaphone concept design poses a difficult tradeoff between physical size, weight, functionality and usability. Reducing size and weight can be done as long as usability is there, but going further, it is becoming more difficult for people to use a terminal and its services. Yet the mediaphone will be richer in features than any portable device before. A novel approach is proposed to come out of the difficult tradeoff between physical dimensions, functionality and usability. Our approach is based on augmented reality extension of the user interface and image processing based user interaction scheme. We propose a table-driven MARISIL sign language mechanisms to be employed. In this short paper we describe the basic principles.