Life Goes Mobile!

 

MobiLife's goal is to bring advances in mobile applications and services within the reach of users in their everyday life, based on the evolving capabilities of 3G systems and beyond. The user-centric R&D in MobiLife includes applications and services frameworks with innovative applications and services, enabling technologies and service components, user and industry evaluation, and exploring and removing hurdles between service development and deployment.

Approach 

• Look at the world from the user's perspective!
• Try to understand the user's needs,
• How these needs can be transferred to technological and non-technological requirements, and
• How the product development process can be elaborated to iteratively and interactively take those needs and requirments into account.

As users are participating in varying social contexts in everyday life, we need a facility to maintain such relations: to communicate, to share items and time, and to manage today’s complex lifestyles. This mandates the development of group awareness support enabling the automatic and meaningful (self) organisation of communication means, view and use of shared items, adapted to the relevant context. Equally important, this requires new privacy and trust models, so that such solutions can gain user acceptance. These models must also be understandable to the users.
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To make these services and applications real, the project will likewise investigate key application enablers and technologiesdeemed crucial for their implementation, keeping in mind the qualitative constraints such as the very large number of end-users and their diversity. Technologies for maintaining a “shared cognition”amongst groups of users, such as modelling and reasoning for contextual awareness, technologies for facilitating and maintaining privacy and trust, and technologies for creating and sharing various kinds of content and media related to everyday life belong to key areas covered in the project. The enablers and technologies will be embodied in application experience prototypes, thus providing the project further opportunities to learn interactively how they can facilitate providing sustained added value to the end-users.None of the services and applications developed in the project will ever reach the end-users, if they cannot in practise be created and provided by some value network consisting of network operators, service operators, content providers, integrators, and others as may be needed. Therefore, the full service lifecyclecovering service creation, packaging, configuration, provision, and support is addressed by the project, thus complementing the user-centric view with the equally decisive value network view. In the context of the marketplace dynamics, the project will also study the relevant business models and societal issues, in particular potential legal problems and their solutions.

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