Towards seamless mobility with personal servers

Abstract

Observes that the future of mobile communication networks lies not only in how successful people are in deploying technologies (2.5G or 3G with a high degree of coverage and roaming between operators), but also in how well people can create a functioning environment and usage situation for end-users in which they can get a homogeneous and continuous usage experience, despite the very heterogeneous world in which they, after all, will live. Concepts are advanced that support this observation (network independence, UI/device flexibility, and user experience continuity), and a possible solution is proposed that would take people in that direction (the personal server).

Key technological trajectories and the expansion of mobile Internet applications

“…NTT DoCoMo and other Japanese service providers are planning to make their phones compatible with WLANs and Bluetooth. These technologies and faster processors could enable the use of so-called personal mobile servers that allow short-range communication between various "wearable" devices (Bylund and Segall, 2004).…”

XPOD – A Human Activity and Emotion Aware Mobile Music Player

“…In particular, this paper proposes a mobile MP3 player, XPod, which is able to automate the process of selecting the song best suited to the emotion and the current activity of the user. Other attempts to relate user activity to mobile devices [7,9], have targeted the mobile phone user experience.…”