Mobile Life SSF project

Mobile Life I was an SSF-funded project, 2002 - 2005, where the aim was to develop innovative mobile services and the corresponding supporting technology and platforms. Our research method involved moving beyond the creation of individual services, forming general design approaches, methods, and middleware. Initially, we focused on five such general design approaches: how to exploit affect in mobile settings, how to create social mobile services, how to exploit mobility in entertainment services, how to improve mobile services through multimodal interfaces, and how to support collaboration through articulation of mobile activities. Through separating the sustainable design approaches from the innovation of individual services, we can place the research questions on an appropriate level. By joining the three major Swedish research groups in this area, the interaction lab at SICS, mobility at Interactive Institute, and FAL at Viktoria institute, a sustainable approach to applied research on mobile services was created.

This project was the base of the Mobile Life Competence Centre at Stocholm University starting in 2007.

MOBILE LIFE VINN Excellence Center The Mobile Life Centre at Stockholm University in Kista does research in mobile services and ubiquitous computing through joining forces with local research organization such as SICS and Interactive Institute. The topic of the Centre includes research on consumer-oriented mobile and ubiquitous services spanning all areas from entertainment and socialization to work and society. It has major partners from the IT and telecom industry, including Ericsson Research, TeliaSonera, Sony Ericsson and Microsoft Research Ltd. Partnerships in the public sector, including City of Stockholm Municipality and Kista Science City will secure societal relevance, and collaboration with Stockholm Innovation and Growth ensures that results are integrated in the innovation system. In the Centre, this academic, industrial and public partnership will be able to jointly work on strategically important projects that can provide a sustainable growth for Sweden. The center is funded by VINNOVA on a 10 year grant, 2007 - 2016. The center builds on the results from a previous SSF-grant (read about some of the results in a Halfway Report from 2004), 2002 - 2007, and results from the EU-funded iperg project.