FEEL IST-2000-26135
Non-intrusive services to support Focussed, Efficient and Enjoyable Local activities.
Abstract: The main objective of the project is to deal with the problem of the intrusiveness of today's mobile technology and how work in local environments can be enhanced by introducing the idea of non-intrusive services realised partly by disappearing computer environments. The work in the project will be based on the detailed analysis of a number of concrete scenarios where today technologies for mobile and distributed work obviously create intrusions on the local activities going on. Based on the analyses of the concrete scenarios we will: - design appropriate disappearing computer environments - design mechanisms by which multiple services simultaneously can share and effectively use the disappearing computer environment - for the last purpose to build on the software agent paradigm for service design. - establish a software platform which handles software components on small artefacts transparently and manages open sets of services. - making usability studies for the disappearing computer environments.

The Swedish Royal Institute of Technology [KTH] research group fuse

The University of Southampton research group IAM Agent Based Computing