Physical Mobile Interactions: Mobile Devices as Pervasive Mediators for Interactions With the Real World

So far, mobile devices have mainly been used for interactions between the user, the device and the used service without considering the context of use. However, during the last years the authors have seen a huge interest in industry and academia in using mobile devices for interactions with things, places and people in the real world, termed physical mobile interactions in this paper. Until now there has been no comprehensive analysis of these interaction techniques and no user studies have been conducted to analyze when which interaction technique is preferred by which users.