EMTEL2 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Title: EMTEL2


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EMTEL2 European Media Technology and Everyday
Life Ubiquitous Computing IPTS
Marc Bogdanowicz - 15 June 2000
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EMTEL2 IPTS aims
IPTS project focuses on the increasingly
prevailing ubiquity of information and
communication technologies. Research will be
centred on the monitoring and analysis of
technological developments and their market
penetration. Seville will provide EMTEL with
comparative supply side data, and will draw on
the sociological work from other teams to enhance
its own interpretative analysis.
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Ubiquitous computing (1)
Technological innovation Miniaturisation
Portability Interoperable communication
protocols Seamless connections
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Ubiquitous computing (2)
Product innovation
IT Telecom AV
IT Telecom CE
From Convergence
To UbiC
More than Home Entertainment ? On-line services,
home networking of devices, thinking and
communicating domestic appliances, etc.
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Mapping a functional starting point
Proposed categories for technological and
industrial mapping Source Tang, Venables
(SPRU), ConCom project (2000 - to be
published) Information (I) creates / provides
info in a basically unalterable form, e.g.CD
player, radio, early PDA, analogue decoder, video
and camcorders, etc. Command Control (C,C)
additionally deliver instructions or
control applications, e.g. basicgame Stations C,
C and Communication (C,C,C) offer additionally
communication capability, e.g. basic telephony
devices C,C,C and Information (C,C,C, I) e.g.
PCs, digital decoders, advanced
game stations Mobile CCCI (MCCCI)remotely
operated mobile applications and services, e.g.
later PDAs, WAP phones, Web pads, Bluetooth
headsets, e-books, etc.
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Issue the dynamics of domestication
The dominant discourse on the development of
these technologies is that, in one way or
another, they will be important if not essential
for the quality of everyday life. Howeverthey
interfere with established patterns of social
life, and are also influenced by these.
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Some draft baselines for scenario building
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Collaborative Tasks

• IPTS proposes to centre its research on
• monitoring technological developments in the
  areas of Mobile communications and Smart homes
  and living
• monitoring market penetration of these
  technologies
• By doing so IPTS could function as a platform for
  the other partners with regard to technological
  developments
• IPTS expects, with regard to its ambitions to
  analyse the sensemaking around ICTs, input from
  the fields the other partners of EMTEL are
  investigating.