Diploma Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Communications -
Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, grade: 1,3, LMU Munich (Institut
für Informatik), course: Medieninformatik, language: English, abstract:
Radio frequency identification (RFID) still owns a "black-box" image in
the mental models of most people. With the current trends to enhance
this technology with other functionalities and sensors, this mystical
image even gets worse. Despite the fact that there is relative constant
amount of scientific publications working with the RFID technology, only
few accurately classified works exist, that provide an holistic
understanding of this technology. From the view of an user interaction
designer it is hardly possible to utilize the remarkable benefits of
RFID technology with the current state of science. By an exemplary
design of wireless devices, this thesis investigates the RFID technology
and draws an in-depth picture of its current state. This is done on a
theoretical level with the introduction of the 2013 RFID taxonomy, as
well as with three series of enhanced RFID tag prototypes, that have
been built to gain practical knowledge in this field. The final
prototype implements a music player that is controlled by a set of RFID
control widgets. This also is a first application of the Tesla User
Interface idea. By comparing and evaluating these approaches, the
usefulness for human computer interaction (HCI) was verified, even
though this should be done attentively. A whole spectrum of concrete
future work in the field of electronic engineering, networking and HCI
are proposed as an important result of this work.
