Swedish Institute of Computer Science has engaged in a joint research project with Ericsson Research. The new collaboration will be centered on information technology for the family and will include communication, sharing of common information, and other family based services.
As families adopt information technology at an increasing rate—using cellular phones and new mobile computing technologies such as advanced multimedia terminals and 3G mobile networks—new services will be required.
“Families are tight and complex social structures. Family members share a history and know each other’s personalities and preferences. In a not too distant future, all of the devices and services may be interconnected all the time, thus creating a social awareness between family peers that will support family communication,” says Dr. Per Persson of SICS.
“This calls for a new kind of thinking in terms of designing services and in terms of designing the platforms for deploying the services,” says Mr. Fredrik Espinoza, head of the OASIS group at SICS.
The new project will investigate
and design IT-support for family life. The two main issues of the project
are to develop real and prototype applications and services demonstrating
technology enabled social awareness and to investigate the platform requirements
needed to create applications and services for the family. The latter includes making the service
platforms developed by OASIS (Sview) and (OSG) compatible,
and continuously discussing general features of open service platforms.
Contact:
Fredrik Espinoza (OASIS group at SICS)
Per Persson (Social Computing Group at SICS)
Lori Robertson (Warplab at Ericsson Research Applications)
lori.robertson@era.ericsson.se