Machine
Marketing
Mass communication
Material (sozai)
Mathematical Model
Merchandising
Mobile
Mode
Mono(Japanese for "thing")
Multimedia
Mobile
Mobile originally meant&sbquo "to move." In German&sbquo for example&sbquo the word mobel(furniture) has the same root as mobile. Furniture was movable in Germany&sbquo which means that mobility was demanded in furniture. Recently the term has been established to mean mobility as in "portability and transportability" with the emergence of the computer and diffusion of networks. It has become a word of cover&sbquo especially as an IT term&sbquo everything from various devices related to the cell phone network and portable communication&sbquo and connectivity with the Internet&sbquo to the hardware and software in general for such systems&sbquo and has also become a symbolic prefix. Mobile music&sbquo mobile protocol and mobile chip&sbquo for example&sbquo all strongly suggest "communication from a moving body&sbquo" and the essential meaning as portability and transportability is becoming weak.
Returning once again to its history&sbquo today's symbolic meaning of mobile can be seen in a type of artwork called the mobile&sbquo which is composed by suspending pieces of metal in exquisite balance. That is&sbquo the quality of balance is most important in a communication environment from a moving body&sbquo and the harmony and order of resented by the words with mobile as their prefix. Unfortunately&sbquo however&sbquo it is difficult to say that today's array of systems covered by the word mobile is perfectly equipped with this harmony and order. Design will be most involved in creating new concepts of portability and the format and contents of the connection with mobility&sbquo and moreover in embodying them. That is&sbquo the design concepts of mobile interface and mobile interaction&sbquo a