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Future
Applications Lab
Nostalgia
for an age yet to come
>>> Previous events & news
For current news, please visit the Future Applications
Lab blog!
News from 2004-2005 are available here.
News from 2002-2003 are available here.
Also be sure to visit the Publications &
Presentations page!
2007
September
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FAL presented two papers at ECSCW
2007, the European Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative
Work:
Gifts from friends and strangers: A study
of mobile music sharing
by Maria håkansson, Mattias Rost and Lars Erik Holmquist is a
study of the Push!Music
system for mobile music sharing
Seeing ethnographically: Teaching ethnography as part of CSCW by
Barry Brown (UCSD), Johan Lundin, Mattias Rost and Lars Erik Holmquist
describes findings from the iDeas project, a
collaboration with Göteborg IT University and Stanford
ECSCW
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Mattias Jacobsson presented the GlowBots at the Wired NextFest in Los
Angeles, USA on September 13-16.
GlowBots are small wheeled robots that develop complex relationships
between each other and with their owners. They were designed using the Transfer Scenarios method,
presented at CHI 2007, and are a
result in the European project ECAgents
- Embodied Communicating Agents.
Wired NextFest is a four-day festival of innovative products and
technologies that are transforming our world....
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July
May
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Lars Erik Holmquist, Kristina Höök, Oskar Juhlin and Annika
Waern presented the paper The
Mobile Services Ecosystem: A Research Foundation for Mobile Life
at the Global
Mobility Roundtable 2007 in Marina Del Rey, USA. The paper outlines
the research program for the new Mobile
Life Center at Stockholm University, which is led by the four
co-authors.
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Lalya Gaye co-organized the 4th International Mobile
Music Workshop in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The programme of the
workshop consisted of keynote presentations from invited
speakers,
peer-reviewed paper presentations, poster sessions, in-depth
discussions about the crucial issues of mobile music technology, demos
of state-of-the-art projects, break-out sessions and live events.
Follow it on the official blog and on Flickr!
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Sara Ljungblad and Lars Erik Holmquist presented the paper Transfer
Scenarios: Grounded Innovation with Marginal Practices at CHI
2007, the annual ACM conference on computer-human interaction. Transfer
scenarios support the design of innovative technology
by involving groups that are not the intended users in the design
process. One example is designing novel robot applications by studying
owners of extreme pets, such as snakes and spiders...
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Also at CHI, Lars Erik Holmquist co-chaired Interactivity
together with Tom Igoe,
where the CHI community can experience the
year's most exciting interactive works. Together
with Barry
Brown
he also co-chaired alt.chi,
CHI's
breathing hole where
alternative and unusual work can be presented in an open format. CHI
took place in San Jose, California on April 28-May 3...
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Check out the CHI
2007 Interactivity video on YouTube!
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January
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In January 2007 Maria Håkansson presented the paper Facilitating Mobile Music Sharing and
Social Interaction with Push!Music at HICSS-40
in Hawaii, USA. Maria took part in the minitrack Using Information: New
Technologies, Ways, & Means chaired by Dan Russell, Google Inc,
and Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Research. The paper presents the results
from the initial user study of the Push!Music music
sharing application and is written by Maria Håkansson, Mattias
Rost, Mattias Jacobsson and Lars Erik Holmquist...
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2006
October
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New findings in the Context
Photography project will be presented at NordiCHI 2006, the
Fourth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, on October
14-18. The paper More Than Meets the
Eye: An Exploratory User Study of Context Photography reports on
a user study performed by Maria Håkansson, Sara Ljungblad, and
Lalya Gaye. Subjects used our camera prototype during an
extended period of time, and the results show how they developed
new strategies for taking photos and that context photography can
become
an alternative means for picture taking...
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August-September
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The Leonardo Electronic Alamanac
has published a special issue on Locative Media. FAL's Lalya
Gaye participates with the essay Performing
Sonic City: Situated Creativity In Mobile Music Making, which
reports on a user study of the Sonic City
system. The essay shows how Sonic City mediates a new type of
personal experience of urban space and embeds electronic music making
in the everyday. Leonardo Electronic Almanac is the electronic arm of
the pioneer art journal, Leonardo -
Journal of Art, Science & Technology, published by MIT
Press...
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Sara Ljungblad presented the paper Designing
Personal Embodied Agents with Personas at RO-MAN 06, the
15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive
Communication. The paper shows how studying unusual groups, for
instance owners of novel pets such as snakes and spiders, helped us to
design new and innovative applications
for everyday robots. Mattias Jacobsson and Katarina Walter also
contributed. The results are part of the ECAgents project, sponsored by
the Future and Emerging Technologies program of the European Community.
RO-MAN 06 takes place in Hertfordshire, UK, on September 6-8...
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Mattias Rost presented a new system, Push!Photo,
at UbiComp 2006 the
Eight
International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. The demonstration,
co-developed with Mattias Jacobsson, is
called Push!Photo: Informal Photo
Sharing in Ad-Hoc Networks. It generalizes the type of
autonomous file-sharing already found in Push!Music to
other types of media, such as personal photographs. UbiComp takes place
in Orange
County, California on September 17-21...
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June
Mobile
Life Center receives 10 years funding from VINNOVA
The Mobile Life Center at Stockholm
University is one of 15 competence centers that have been selected by
the Swedish Governmental Agency for
Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) to become a so-called VINN
Excellence Center. Each center will receive up to 70 MSEK funding
from VINNOVA over a period of 10 years. For Mobile Life, the Stockholm
University and the industrial partners will contribute an equal amount
each, bringing the total funding up to 210 MSEK (roughly 30 million
USD). The center will be based at the Department
of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) in Kista, and partners
include SICS, KTH, Ericsson Research, TeliaSonera, Sony Ericsson,
Microsoft Research, Municipality of Stockholm, Kista Science City, FOI
and Stockholm Innovation and Growth. Read the full press release here.
The Mobile Life Center will become
a world-renowned focal point for research in mobile
services and ubiquitous computing. It will adopt a fundamentally
user-oriented perspective to design services for a sustainable web of
work, leisure and ubiquitous technology we can call the mobile life. The Centre's
academic, industrial and public partners will jointly work on
strategically important projects that can provide a sustainable growth
for Sweden. For more information, read the original research
program submitted to VINNOVA.
Mobile Life started in 2002 as a
project funded by the Swedish
Foundation for Strategic Research (for more information, download
the project's halfway
report.) The Mobile Life Center will be an extension and expansion
of the original Mobile Life project. The leaders of the center are
Professor Kristina Höök, manager of the Interaction Laboratory
at SICS and professor in Human-Machine Interaction at Stockholm
University; Associate Professor Lars Erik Holmquist, leader of the Future Applications Lab at the
Viktoria Institute; Associate Professor Oskar Juhlin, director of the Mobility Studio at the
Interactive Institute; and Dr. Annika Waern, coordinator of the iPerg project as SICS and
director of the Game Studio at
the Interactive Institute.
For the Future Applications Lab, this means that we have a steady base
of funding for at least 10 years. We also have a great opportunity to
join forces and work more closely with the other researchers of the
Mobile Life Center. FAL will gradually migrate its research activities
the Mobile Life Center in Kista, and the doctoral education will in the
future be based at Stockholm University. At the same time, we hope to
keep a presence in Göteborg, but how this will be achieved is yet
to be determined.
For more information about the Mobile Life Center, contact Kristina Höök. For
more information about the Future Applications Lab's role in the
center, contact Lars Erik
Holmquist.
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During the final stretch of
the Volvo Ocean Race on
June 14-18, FAL demonstrated a special version of Ubiquitous Graphics, based on map
data from the Lindholmen area. The system allows users to collaborate
around large and complex graphics, using a combination of large and
small displays. It has been demonstrated at many venues including
SIGGRAPH 2005. During Volvo Ocean Race, you could see Ubiquitous
Graphics
in the Volvo IT tent...
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May
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The short paper Ubiquitous Graphics:
Combining Hand-held and Wall-size Displays to Interact with Large
Images by Johan Sanneblad and Lars Erik Holmquist will be
presented at the Advanced
Visual Interfaces conference. Unfortunately neither Johan nor Lars
Erik are able to attend but Mattias Rost and Mattias Jacobsson will be
there to give a demo of the system. AVI 2006 takes place in Venice,
Italy on May 23-26...
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April
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Several researchers from FAL presented at CHI 2006, the premier international
conference for human-computer interaction:
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March
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FAL co-organised the 3rd International
Workshop on Mobile Music Technology, in collaboration with the
University of Sussex, the University of Salford, the Pervasive and
Locative Arts Network and Futuresonic. The workshop took place
in Brighton, UK on 2-3 March and gathered an international crowd of
researchers, artists, designers and industrials. The program included
talks by invited speakers, work-in-progress feedback sessions, in-depth
discussions and hands-on activities...
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January
>>> Mattias
Jacobsson presented the short paper When
Media Gets Wise: Collaborative
Filtering with Mobile Media Agents at the conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. The
paper discusses a system for autonomous sharing of music files on
mobile
devices and was co-authored by Maria Håkansson and Lars Erik
Holmquist. The conference took place on January 29 to February 1 in
Sydney, Australia...
>>> Also at the Intelligent User Interfaces
conference, Kavita Thomas, Pierre
Proske and Mattias Rickardsson presented the short paper Intelligent
Fridge Poetry Magnets. All three were summer interns at
FAL in
2005,
working in
the ECAgents project. They constructed a system where "intelligent
fridge magnets" evolve a vocabulary and grammar through user
interaction. The
project is part of ECAgents
and was also recently reported by ABC News...
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