Right here Right now Kristina Höök Mobile Life director Professor at DSV in HMI

Mobile Life

Mobile Life?

Mobile Technology Life People

Mobile services development could (should?) be similar to tremendous internet development

Games Socialise Advertise Share photos Wikipedia Share stories Buy stuff Book tickets Chatting Arrange summer holidays Research Porn Blogging Read newspapers Stock quotes Reading Spelling checker B2C Education Programming Work

Why? Open platform Standards Device-independent access … but foremost: Many can create content, functionality and services Given time, meaningful practices have been established

Mobile technology?

Not a PC nor only internet here and now

RFID SenseCam GPS Wireless communication Bodysensors Digital cameras P2P Sensor- networks iPods Mobile phones Light sensors Accelerometers Haptics Bluetooth Handheld computers SMS MMS

Right here Right now

New generation of mobile services: exploring and engaging with unplanned activities, unfamiliar places, and brief encounters – right here and right now work, leisure and social activities blend together – shift to services providing both global and local access – for work and leisure

Right here, right now also in terms of physical self

Mind – Body Emotion – Thought Rational – Irrational

In common: Open for appropriation and meaning making User-generated content Bending the limits of technology – redefining its meaning

HOT & HYPED DISAPPPOINTMENT MATURE ON-GOING Mobile Media Mobile 2.0 Pervasive Gaming Traditional mobile gaming Social Mobile Services Speech SMS Navigation Web surfing Mail Photography Mobile TV Sensors BUBBLING Discussion

Why is the mobile life not here already?

Obstacles Payment models Operating system standardisations Interface design Regulations Value networks Interface standardisation Mobile service download & installation Mobile eco-system

How do we find the meaningful practices connecting here and now with mobile technology/services?

“Our role is not to judge what people choose to do, but to accept and study their practices” Oskar Juhlin

long-lasting friendships lomographers reptile owners video jockeys disc jockeys bikers teenagers elderly creating their own expressions dancers LARPers hunters Kista Galleria visitors

Study some practice Design Changed practice Change someone else’s practice

Pervasive technology entering the ‘here and now’ affects our values & design goals

Privacy Trust Accountability Reflection Good life Freedom Freedom of speech Space - Place Health Autonomy Independence

What allows for meaningful practices “right here, right now”? Invent new designs, design methods, technologies, mobile services to make it happen! Remove obstacles together – industry, academia, society!

Discussion: Can TeliaSonera be a Mobile Service provider? If not – what is your business wrt Mobile Services? How would you make money out of a Mobile 2.0 landscape? Native mobile applications vs. Internet- applications? What are the obstacles really?

Privacy Trust Accountability Reflection Good life Freedom Freedom of speech Space - Place Health Autonomy Independence Emotion

Mostly hate?

Hate back?

eMoto

Life style applications Affective Diary Affective Health

Affective Diary 1. Collecting memories – including body memorabilia mingled with mobile materials (SMS, MMS, photographs, music listened to, video, …) 2. Offering a diary medium in which those memories can be mirrored and organised 3. Empowering the user to create meaning and alter those representations

Cultural probe 12 informants Elderly Teenagers Dance teachers Lessons learnt About yesterday, today, tomorrow About someone/something Brooding, shedding, taking the lid off

Sketching

Carrying sensors

1. Body memorabilia Sensordata analysed as –movement –arousal (pos and neg) Represented as

2. Diary medium

3. Empowerment & creating meaning “It was right about there I started to think like this: ohhh, how I am going to make this work, this thing here with buying a present and da, da, da. So right here, there is so MUCH that is represented here: Oh, I am not going to make it this weekend, and not then nor then nor then. And then I just thought: it will sort itself. I’ll just grab something at Kista Galleria.”

… and now to demo!

Affective Health Real-time feedback on your mobile

Can TeliaSonera be a Mobile Service provider? User experience provider? Life style application provider?

Mobile Life research areas: Mobile 2.0 Health/affective applications involving your body Pervasive Games Generalised interaction models Mobile Eco-system

Thank you!