Peter Lönnqvist

Wireless Foresight: Scenarios of the Mobile World in 2015

Preface.1. Introduction.The Wireless Industry at a Crossroads.Be prepared for 2015.Scenarios of the Wireless World of 2015.Challenges for the Future.Creating Scenarios.Guide to the book.PART I: SCENARIOS.2. Wireless Explosion - Creative Destruction.A Sunny Berlin day in 2015.The Wireless Scene in 2015.3. Slow Motion.Ordinary Life in Stockholm and Business Life in Shanghai.The Wireless Scene in 2015.Wireless Technology in 2015.4. Rediscovering Harmony.A Weekday Morning in a Small Scandinavian Village.The Wireless Scene in 2015.Wireless Technology in 2015.5. Big Moguls and Snoopy Governments.Early April morning, Green Haven Gated Community, New York, US.The Wireless Scene in 2015.Wireless Technology in 2015.PART II: DRIVERS OF DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS.6. Trends and Fundamental Drivers.Fourteen Trends Shaping the Scenarios.Fundamental Drivers.Theories Supporting Fundamental Drivers.7. Technological Conclusions from Scenarios.System Technology in 2015.Mobile Terminals in 2015.Mobile Services in 2015.Part III - Challenges for the Future.8. Challenges for Technical Research.Low Cost Infrastructures and Services.Seamless Mobility.New and Advanced Services.Usability and Human-Machine Interface.Health and Environment.A Need for Cross-disciplinary Research.9. Challenges for the Wireless Industry.Introduction.The Challenges.10. Challenges for Key Regions.US.Europe.China.Japan and South Korea.Part IV - Moving Into the Future With Scenarios.11. Scenario Thinking and Scenario Making.Logics of Scenario Creation.Making our Scenarios.Other Studies About the Future.12. Summary and Concluding Remarks.The Book in Brief.Moving into the Future.Appendix A: User Segments.Appendix B: Wireless Foresight at Wireless@KTH.Glossary.References.Author Biographies.Index.

A Ubiquitous Service Environment with Active Documents for Teamwork Support

We present a ubiquitous service environment for teamwork, supported by Active Documents. The environment consists of a physically dressed conference room and a software architecture based on Java and Jini. At the application level, mobile agent technology provide Active Documents that utilize context information and distributed resources to support users. We also present a prototype and preliminary results from observations in a meeting scenario.

Understanding Social Intelligence

Believable social interaction is not only about agents that look right but also do the right thing. To achieve this we must consider the everyday knowledge and expectations by which users make sense of real, fictive or artificial social beings. This folk-theoretical understanding of other social beings involves several, rather independent, levels such as expectations on behaviour, expectations on primitive psychology, models of folk-psychology, understanding of traits, social roles and empathy. Implications for Socially Intelligent A gents (SIA) research are discussed.

Intrusiveness management for focused, efficient, and enjoyable activities

When technologies for distributed activities develop, in particular the rapidly developing mobile technology, a larger part of our time will be spent connected to our various distributed contexts. When we meet physically we bring technology, both artifacts and services, which enable us to participate in these non-local contexts. Potentially this is a threat to focused and efficient activities due to the intrusiveness of the technology. Our aim is to contribute to the restoration of a number of the desirable properties of traditional local technology-free contexts. The intrusiveness itself is caused by at least four typical phenomena that have influenced current technology: Focus-demanding and clearly distinguishable artifacts like phones or PCs explicitly mediate interaction with the distributed context The functionality of services is traditionally based upon the assumption that communication is a deterministic flow of passive information, which for example, does not include information of the participants´ current context Services in general perform individually and without coordinated communication schemes The switches between contexts introduce a high cognitive load as each distributed context typically has its own system of characteristic objects and rules. In the FEEL project, we have developed a system called “Focused, Efficient and Enjoyable Local Activities with Intrusiveness Management” (FEELIM) that constitutes an intermediate alternative between the technology-dense and technology-free environments, which addresses the problems cited above. This research is based on a collaborative and cooperative setting where problems of intrusiveness management are confounded by several users meeting and cooperating together as opposed to isolated users dealing with similar problems of interruption management (Chen 2004; Ho 2005).