Recent Stories
- Engineering students make finals of national start-up business competition
- The Centre for Global Eco-Innovation makes finals of national innovation awards
- Social media plagued by privacy problems, say researchers
- Lancaster set to receive funding boost to stimulate UK's economy
- Billion-year-old water could hold clues to life on Earth and Mars
- How do we find out about cyber criminals?
- First, carbon footprints... now you can calculate your 'nitrogen footprint'
- Lancaster to play leading role in UK-India cyber security team
- LEC PhD student, Beth Brockett, organises knowledge-exchange event for farmers
- Florence Nightingale Day successfully raises profile of women in mathematics and statistics
Industry Funding for Next Generation Mobile Interaction
New research will investigate mobile interaction with advertisement posters, public screens and maps
Researchers at Lancaster University's InfoLab21 are collaborating with NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs to develop a new generation of mobile interactions and applications using RFID/NFC technology.
MULTITAG is a €252,000 research project funded by NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs - an affiliated company of NTT DoCoMo, the primary mobile communications company in Japan.
The two-year project will be the first cooperation between NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs and a University in the UK.
Mobile interaction with advertisement posters, public screens and maps that are based on RFID/NFC tags or visual markers is regarded as a promising application area in mobile commerce.
However, most currently implemented commercial applications are based on simple interaction paradigms, associating one single object with exactly one tag providing one service at a time.
Multi-tag interactions and applications are driven by the idea of augmenting objects through multiple tags that provide various links to different services.
The aims of the MULTITAG project are: to further analyze multi-tag application and interactions, define guidelines for the development of such systems, establish tool support and provide a solid service engineering basis for the future development of such services.
One concrete prototype currently in development is a system which would allow a mobile phone to be used as a smart stylus. Using this approach, the phone can touch a display at any location in order to perform interactions.
Using a mobile phone in the interaction increases interaction possibilities through phone input modalities (e.g. joystick or keypad), storage capabilities and additional feedback (e.g. visual, audio, and vibration).
Leading the project are Dr. Enrico Rukzio, Professor Hans Gellersen and Robert Hardy in Lancaster University's Computing Department.
Mon 21 April 2008
Associated Links
- Direct Touch-based Interaction with Dynamic Displays - a video of a prototype system which allow a mobile phone to control a dynamic map display
- DoCoMo Euro-Labs - established in November 2000 to conduct research on emerging mobile communications technologies that can respond to the requirements of a highly advanced multimedia age, DoCoMo Euro-Labs is committed to collaborate with operators, vendors, universities and research institutes in Europe
- InfoLab21 - The UK's centre of excellence for ICT
- MULTITAG Project - a research project launched in January 2008 between Lancaster University's Computing Department and NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs, with the goal of developing new methods and applications for mobile interactions with multi-tagged objects
Latest News
Engineering students make finals of national start-up business competition
Engineering students Scott Nash, Daniel Richardson and Aaron Aboshio have won the northern heat of the Youth Entrepreneurs Scheme 'Engineering YES' competition for their spin-out renewable energy company Atlantis.
Thu 23 May 2013
The Centre for Global Eco-Innovation makes finals of national innovation awards
The Centre for Global Eco-Innovation has been announced as a finalist in the PraxisUnico Impact Awards.
Thu 23 May 2013
Social media plagued by privacy problems, say researchers
The privacy management of 16 popular social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, is "seriously deficient," according to a study being published in the June issue of Computer magazine.
Story supplied by LU Press Office
Tue 21 May 2013
Lancaster set to receive funding boost to stimulate UK's economy
Lancaster is amongst leading universities who are set to benefit from a £50 million investment in cutting-edge research and innovation projects to drive growth. Lancaster's project will use the strong international reputation and links in China, in particular with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to address the Government's priorities to focus on high-growth SMEs and to increase exports. Using expertise from across the University, it focuses on improved leadership and new technology...
Story supplied by LU Press Office
Fri 17 May 2013