Goal
- Finding a tool for the user experience study, with:
- a visual feed of the tablet screen
- full control of the tablet functionality
- fast connection (preferably through USB)
- no internet required for the operation
- Exploring tools for later prototyping
Tested tools
- DroidMote
- Controls PC from tablet/phone
- Only partial multitouch funcionality
- WifiMouse
- Controls PC from tablet/phone
- Full mouse & keyboard control + extra keys & commands
- Works very smooth & easy
- TeamViewer
- Controls PC from tablet/phone
- With smooth visual feed
- Awesome!
- Super easy & fast
- Needs active internet connection
- TeamViewer QuickSupport
- Controls tablet/phone from PC
- Comparable to the regular TeamViewer
- Too bad it needs an active internet connection as well
- Synergy
- Controls tablet/phone from PC
- No visual feed
- Full mouse & keyboard control
- Droid VNC Server + TightVNC
- Controls tablet/phone from PC
- Did not work on my devices
- MyMobiler
- Controls tablet/phone from PC
- Smooth visual feed
- USB / Wifi / LAN connection
- Full mouse & keyboard control
- Full tablet/phone control
- Issues: instable connection, distorted screen (offset)
- VMlite + RealVNC
- Controls tablet/phone from PC
- Slow visual feed
- USB / Wifi / LAN connection
- Full mouse & keyboard control
- Full tablet/phone control
- External viewer or webbased viewer through html5 or java
- Paid license
Results
Based on the criteria, only MyMobiler and VMlite are valid candidates for the user tests. Below a video of MyMobiler in action. With a mobile phone, the screen of the laptop that took over the phone is being filmed. This creates a quite cool mirror-to-mirror effect, but also shows the visual feedback is fairly smooth.Based on the criteria, only MyMobiler and VMlite are valid candidates for the user tests. Below a video of MyMobiler in action. With a mobile phone, the screen of the laptop that took over the phone is being filmed. This creates a quite cool mirror-to-mirror effect, but also shows the visual feedback is fairly smooth.
After buying and installing VMlite android app, setup was easy. Web access and access through RealVNC work well. Below a video of actions performed on the tablet, which become visible on the controlled window on the laptop. The image refresh rate is rather low... Stability precedes smoothness however, since we only require the image to capture the user test output.
The final vote goes to VMlite!
And...sometimes you got to go a bit too far to get what you want...
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