SMS - Simple Mobile Services

• Overview
• People @ LMU
• Publications @ LMU
• Official Project Website
• Contact @ LMU

Overview

The goal of the SMS project is to create innovative tools enabling a new class of services, addressing the specific needs of mobile users and enabling individuals and small businesses to become service providers. We call these services Simple Mobile Services (SMS). If mobile services are to repeat the success of the Web they have to be simple to find, simple to use, simple to trust and simple to set up. These are our design goals for SMS. Like the Web, SMS will provide technology and operator-independent end-to-end connectivity. But unlike conventional Web-based services they will target specific locations visited by specific classes of mobile user with specific needs.

The overarching concept driving SMS is simplicity. SMS will be simple to find: precise targeting of services to specific users and locations will drastically reduce the burden of locating and choosing between services. They will be easy to use: SMS will be terminal and network independent; service design and deployment will be based on a platform independent model (e.g., MDA); authentication and configuration will be automatic; user interfaces and content will adapt automatically to the characteristics of the terminal; services will maintain the same basic logic as users move between environments and networks.

They will be easy to set-up: the tools used for service authoring will be no more complex than current Web authoring tools; adaptation to user context and policies will take place at run time. SMS are a sub-class in the broader family of context-sensitive services - a key element in the IST vision of "ubiquitous", "pervasive" computing. The key technologies required for SMS are already in place. The key obstacle to service deployment is not technology but the lack of standards and standards-based tools - and more important still - the absence of the millions of small providers who have driven the Internet explosion. It is these obstacles that we address in the SMS proposal.

People @ LMU

The following persons from LMU are involved with the SMS project:

• Prof. Dr. Heinrich Hußmann: Lead
• Gregor Broll: Research Assistant
• Florence Balagtas-Fernandez: PhD Student
• Julia Küfner: Student
  Project thesis: Interface Design Guidelines for Simple Mobile Services
• Doris Hausen: Student
  Project thesis: Usability Guidelines for the Interaction with Simple Mobile Services
• Christina Herrmann: Student
  Project thesis: Usability Guidelines for Simple Mobile Service Authoring Tools
• Christina Herrmann: Student
  Diploma thesis: Application and Refinement of Design Guidelines for Mobile Services
• Jennifer Büttgen: Student
  Project thesis: Extended Usability Guidelines for Simple Mobile Services
• Tanja Herting: Student
  Project thesis: Usability Guidelines for Mobile Service Interaction Using Physical Objects
• Mirco Schönfeld: Student assistant

Publications @ LMU

2008
Download	Tanja Herting, Gregor Broll Acceptance and Usability of Physical Mobile Applications Mobile Interaction with the Real World (MIRW 2008), Workshop at the 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2008), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, September 2, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8142-2134-2
Download	Gregor Broll, Mirco Schönfeld, Heinrich Hussmann Towards the Vision of Simple Mobile Services In Adjunct Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2008), Sydney, Australia, May 20, 2008, ISBN 978-3-85403-236-6
Download	Mark Bilandzic, Marcus Foth, Alexander De Luca CityFlocks: Designing Social Navigation for Urban Mobile Information Systems In DIS '08: Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Designing interactive Systems. Cape Town, South Africa, February 25 - 27, 2008. ACM, New York, NY, 174-183. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1394445.1394464, ISBN 978-1-60558-003-6. (bib)
2007
Download	Gregor Broll, Richard Walker, Margarita Patesti, Sebastian Boring Acceptance and Use of Simple Mobile Services - Preliminary Results and Perspectives Workshop on Mobile Internet User Experience (MobileInternetUX-2007), 9th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2007), Singapore, September 9, 2007
Download	Gregor Broll, Heinrich Hussmann, George N. Prezerakos, Georgia Kapitsaki, Stefano Salsano Modeling Context Information for Realizing Simple Mobile Services In Proceedings of the 16th IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit, Budapest, Hungary, July 1 - 5, 2007, ISBN 963-8111-66-6
Download	Gregor Broll, Enrico Rukzio, Björn Wedi Authoring Support for Mobile Interaction with the Real World In Adjunct Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2007), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 14, 2007, ISBN 978-3-85403-219-9
Download	Gregor Broll, Heinrich Hussmann, Enrico Rukzio, Raphael Wimmer Using Video Clips to Support Requirements Elicitation in Focus Groups - An Experience Report 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Requirements Engineering (MeRE 2007), Conference on Software Engineering (SE 2007), Hamburg, Germany, March 27, 2007

Official Project Website

Contact @ LMU