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Enrico Rukzio, Gregor Broll, Sergej Wetzstein
The Physical Mobile Interaction Framework (PMIF)
The Physical Mobile Interaction Framework (PMIF)
Technical Report LMU-MI-2008-2, München, December 2008, ISSN 1862-5207

Mobile interactions with the real world, meaning a person using her mobile device as a mediator for the interaction with smart objects, is becoming more and more popular in industry and academia. Typical technologies supporting this kind of interactions are Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Near Field Communication (NFC), visual marker recognition, or Bluetooth. Currently, there is only very little tool support for developing systems based on this kind of mobile interactions. In this paper we motivate such tool support, discuss its requirements and present the architecture and implementation of the Physical Mobile Interaction Framework (PMIF). This framework comprises several components that support different implementations of the interaction techniques touching, pointing, scanning and user-mediated object selection. In addition to that PMIF also abstracts from specific techniques and technologies and provides a generic framework for the uniform integration and simple use of the supported interaction techniques Furthermore we discuss seven prototypes that were implemented using PMIF which show the maturity of the framework.