Intro: UBI-SERV

User-centric Design of Ubiquitous Welfare and Safety Services and Supporting Technologies for China and Finland Timo Korhonen Department of Communication and Networking Comnet Aalto University Page

Welcome!

Project Work Packages to be discussed later

Our crew (Finland)
Prof. Jyri Hämäläinen and Adj. prof. Timo Korhonen (project leaders)
Dr Edward Mutafungwa (public safety systems)
Lich tech Mika Husso , PhD student (economical system modeling, radiointerference)
MSc Iiro Jantunen , PhD student (remote telecare)
MSc Zhong Zheng, PhD student (femto-cell technologies)
Ms Maija Pekkola MSc student (user centric design process)
Mr Xirui Wang MSc student (remote telecare, cloud computing, medical health records) +++ associates in Comnet, Aalto, companies and other univ.

Prof. Jiao Bingli
Prof. Yuping Zhao
Associate Profs: XiaoHui Duan, Dou Li
PhD candidates: Leiming Zhang, Feng Wang, Xiao Ruan, Ye ji
PKU team

WP 0: Knowledge management and China Finland cooperation Note: In connection with World EXPO 2010 & Fihta/ OSKE: Sharing Health -event!

Analytical modeling and simulations (femto-cell, cloud computing, economics)
UCD methodology as focus groups, contextual enquiry and interviews in Finland and in China (UCD, health personnel, patients)
Piloting (medical health records, In China: Prokura Ltd, Nordic Centre)
Project members participation to courses in Aalto (S-72.3510 Product development, S-72.2510 UCD, Seminar on Internetworking T-110.5190): student projects, seminars and workshops
Corporate cooperation (especially via Fihta/OSKE but also in some courses of Aalto as S-72.3510)
Knowledge management: Research diaries, wiki and PDP
Methods

WP1: User-centric Design process and method Research and application of UCD methods requirements design quality control

WP 2: Glocal = Global + local Service Ecosystem (GSE)
addresses services/technologies of local nature but admits global mobility; neighbor-aware and location-aware – adds no additional features!
fit between new technology, basic human needs and corresponding economical models

WP 2: Networking technologies and services
Services:
Location-aware applications
Existing and evolving technological enablers for glocal (global+local) services
Future evolution towards ubiquitous Human Centered Mobile Computing (HCMC)
Techno-economics of glocal ecosystems
Technologies: femto-cells, RFID, mobile technologies and health/well-being sensors

Work Package 4: Remote tele-care technologies and services (PKU)
Services target to (1) well-being /advice older people in health, (2) provides disease and geriatric supervision , (3) issues health alarms ~ life saving
Services constrained to security, reliability, ethics and safety
Technology: monitoring network, terminals/sensors and services

Example: For personal safety but note connection to public safety too!
Usage scenario (PKU)

Research framework: Remote healthcare terminals Glocal technologies

“ Low-power wireless access points that operate in licensed spectrum to connect standard mobile devices to a mobile operator’s network using residential DSL or cable broadband connections.”
– Femtoforum:
Example: What are femtocells?

Interference analysis
Simulations & analytical work
Impact of channel configuration, FC penetration, building size, wall type etc.
Techno-economic analysis
Economic model evaluation
Investment analysis
Operator vs. customer perspective
Femtocell applications
Healtcare & public safety
Femtocell research topics

How synergy between Finnish and Chinese research community could be amplified and utilized?
How ubiquitous telecare could be effectively utilize both in richer and poorer countries?
Special requirements of senior citizens?
What solutions would cloud computing and new services (as mush-ups) offer?
Important research question

How systematic user centric design paradigm should be developed that it would better take into account cultural aspects?
What is the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in older citizens cost-effective ubi-remote care?
A practical target : Test and benchmark practical ubi-technology/application development from user centric point of view both in China and in Finland
Important research question …

Project publications

Project publications…

UBI-SERV Group works

G1: How cloud computing technologies may assist ubiquitous health applications? SaaS (Software as a service) Using web based software instead of PC based e.g. Salesforce.com/ZOHO/Google Apps IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) Using on demand (often virtualized) computer hardware instead of physical servers e.g. Amazon EC2/FlexiScale/GoGrid PaaS (Platform as a service) Built on top of IaaS, this is specifically configured services designed to be scalable for certain technologies such as Ruby on Rails or Python, e.g. Mosso/Google App Engine

What are the existing successful projects or business cases?
Government clouds on horizon?
Best storage mechanism for Electronic Medical Records (EHR)? Locally, in the cloud or both?
G1: Cloud computing SWOT

G2: End-User Composition of Ubiquitous Applications
Applications are composed from relevant ubiquitous services according to user needs and context
08/02/10 APPLICATION COMPOSITION SYSTEM Preferences CONTROL INTERFACE USERS Long-term needs

G3: Culture Related Effects in User-centric Design Processes and Methods
How culture effects to UCD?
Should UCD processes be redesigned for different cultures?
Should UCD methods be ‘tuned’ for different cultures?
Special case: China

G3 Backgrounds: China-specific challenges in UCD based applicable services ref: X. Wang, T. Korhonen IFMBE’09 UCD: User Centric Design TCM: Traditional Chinese Medicine

Requirements for Business, UCD-process/method, society, design team, technology?
How would UBI-approach apply to low cost solutions?
Role of traditional medicines and treatments (as traditional Chinese medicine etc.)
Tuning technology to low-cost design? Taking low-cost design as a fundamental design parameter? Other ways?
G4: Cheap healthcare/well-being applications and technologies Business UCD technology

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