Whats happening

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Whats happening?

• Always online
• In Real Life and Virtual life converge
• Mobile
• Post PC era
• Position based service
• Ad hoc networks

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Whats new?

• The new key component is mobility

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Mobility Research what is it?

• 2 areas (cars and games)
• Support for collaboration
• Situation dependence
• Informing design of users practices through
  ethnographic fieldwork
• Walking away from the desktop computer
• Speed as a parameter

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Mobile Gaming
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Projects

• New game concepts with mobility as an key factor
• Multiplayer games
• Postion based games
• Converged games and cross media

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interactive highway

• Oskar Juhlin, Mark Ollila, Daniel
  Normark-Vesterlind, Mattias Ostergren, Tomas
  Blom, Liselott Brunnberg.
• Mobility STUDIO Interactive Institute

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work mobility

• Office Drivers Senja Edvardsson, Bo Erlandsson,
  Rivermen
• Mobility STUDIO Interactive Institute

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gaming

• Stalker
• Road conquer
• Car shoot em up
• Car quest
• Instant betting

• mobtainment, Design Tomas Blom, Mark Ollila.
  Software LiseLott Brunberg. Digital Bridges,
  Svenska Spel, MadSciLab
• Mobility STUDIO Interactive Institute

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Dog Talk

• Dog Talk, Design Mark Ollila, Tomas Blom, Kevin
  Bradshaw. Software Mark Ollila, Digital Bridges
• Mobility STUDIO Interactive Institute

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mobility project partners
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Project from other studios

• Hummingbird (Play studio)
• White Stone (Smart)
• Sixth Sense (Smart)

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Hummingbird

• Hummingbird Holmquist, L.E., Wigström, J. and
  Falk, J.
• PLAY STUDIO Interactive Institute

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White Stone

• White Stone, Design Olle Torgny, Konrad Tollmar,
  ID Model Lennart Andersson, Jakob Boije
• SMART STUDIO Interactive Institute

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Sixth Sense

• Sixth Sense, Design Konrad Tollmar, Lennart
  Andersson, Jakob Boije, Stefan Junestrand,
  Hardware Aurelian Bria, Software Olof Bendt,
  Konrad Tollmar
• SMART STUDIO Interactive Institute

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Interactive Institute Innovation

• Works with Partners
• Commercialise research results
• Work with Venture Capital
• Reward researchers and Studios
• Peter Albinson, Manager (peter.albinson_at_interactiv
  einstitute.se)

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Technical issues

• Peer2Peer
• Hotspot
• GSM, DAB, IR etc

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Scenario Peer2Peer 1/1
Peer2Peer  When 2 (or more) terminals are within
range, an ad hoc peer2peer network connection
will be established. This can be used for a
number of services for example VOIP, File
sharing, Multiplayer games and more
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Scenario Hotspot 1/2
Terminal
Hot spot area
The Net
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Scenario Hot spot 2/2

• Local high network capacity
• Used for a number of services
• Games that requires high bandwidth

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Scenario always online 1/2
UMTS,IR,DAB, GSM (GPS)
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Always online 2/2

• Varying network capacity
• Used for
• Real time dependent games
• Real time dependent applications or services

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Conclusion

• Always online but
• Capacity will vary
• Wireless techniques will vary. Many techniques
  will coexist.
• User needs of bandwidth will vary, depending on
  time and place
• Not PC- complex terminals
• More serverbased solutions

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Stalker
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Contact information

• tomas.blom_at_interactiveinstitute.se
• www.interactiveinstitute.se/mobility

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Zu ende
The Interactive Institute,P.O.Box 24081, SE-104
50 Stockholm. Visiting address Karlavägen
108.Phone [phone]. info_at_interactiveinstitu
te.se www.interactiveinstitute.se