Handheld Communication Interfaces

Introduction Over the years, it has been design education’s purpose to focus on developing the skills necessary to design and develop the physical form of objects. The profession is largely focused on the creation of form, with an understanding that form has the power to evoke interaction. With the growing complexity and increased use of ‘responsive’ threedimensional products such as cellular phones, PDAs, and digital cameras, designers must shift their focus from design as simply a form-giving process, to design as a process of enabling interaction [1]. The way we use a product is as important as what that product can do, or what it looks like, thus the issue of what an object means or causes one to do with it has moved to the foreground.