Workplan -
Embedded device development - Networking technologies and protocols - Communities and contexts - Interfaces and interactions - Settings -
System architecture, foundations and methods

Settings (WP5)

Our target is to design and implement real world experiments that expose ubiquitous computing systems to the challenge of supporting a multitude of concurrent and conflicting applications and user experiences.  The major objective of this workpackage is thus:

  • To study ambient systems in concrete settings to ensure that development of platforms and foundations remains firmly grounded in reality.

  • To develop innovative applications and user experiences.

Work will be performed on development of scenarios, on observation of people’s everyday settings, on prototyping and on evaluation. The concrete settings will investigate ambient system environments ranging from small and dense to large and sparse, and from tame and well provisioned to wild and digitally impoverished. The scenarios explored in these settings will not be focused on selected applications as such but on the complex situations that arise from interaction of diverse stakeholders with many different threads of activity.