Application of Mobile GUI Design Theory to the Development of an Open Source Touchscreen Smartphone GUI

Daniel Jovan Sooknanan; Ajay Joshi

doi:10.24297/ijmit.v10i7.595

Authors

Daniel Jovan Sooknanan University of the West Indies
Ajay Joshi University of the West Indies

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24297/ijmit.v10i7.595

Keywords:

Graphical User Interface, Human-Computer Interaction, Mobile Computing, Mobile Environments

Abstract

It can be argued that the focal point of every smartphone is its GUI. The Graphical User Interface is the aspect of any touchscreen smartphone with which users directly interact. Of late, the touchscreen smartphone has become ubiquitous. As such there is a myriad of smartphone platforms, each of which boasts a user-friendly GUI in its own accord. This paper outlines the design and development of an open source touchscreen smartphone GUI, implemented on an Embedded Linux development board, which serves as a hypothetical smartphone. It gives an overview of GUI design theory and mobile usability studies and shows the application of this theory in the programming process for an embedded platform. This paper goes in depth into the development process for an ARM-based Linux platofrm. The major outcomes of this study include the successful formulation and design of a hierarchical, touchscreen GUI suitable for a smartphone, as well as successful development and target-specific implementation of this GUI on an Embedded Linux, ARM-based platform, by adopting of an open source philosophy.

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Author Biographies

Daniel Jovan Sooknanan, University of the West Indies

B.Sc. (Hons) Electrical and Computer Engineering (2013) majoring in Computer Systems Engineering and Communication Systems Engineering from the University of the West Indies. Currently pursuing M.Phil. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UWI, St. Augustine.

Ajay Joshi, University of the West Indies

Ajay Joshi holds a Ph.D. in Advanced Computer Architecture from the University of Mumbai, India in 1996. He is currently with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. Earlier, he was Head of Technology at IBM Advanced Training Centre at Nasik, India. His publications are in the field of embedded systems hardware related to memory and parallel processing. He is an IEEE member since 2004 and has chaired a session in IADAT Conference in Spain. Currently he is a Principal Investigator of NVIDIA CUDA center at the University.