The objective of the project is to focus on the fundamental research problems of ubiquitous computing, deploy a new ubiquitous infrastructure, and develop novel, multimodal ubi applications on selected problem domains, such as education in suburban areas or public and commercial services in the city centre. In the UbiLife project, technologies will be developed to ease mobile users’ context recognition, the assembly of easy-to-use applications and the resource management of smart environments. The project also studies other key areas of ubiquitous computing – lightweight discovery and data exchange, context information management, component-based middleware, content-based routing and physical user interfaces. The developed technologies will be integrated into a software platform which will support the creation of novel and innovative applications for mobile users. A Living Lab approach will be used in the project, so that users will participate actively in the design of the proof of concept pilots, which are then empirically evaluated by conducting field trials in real-life settings and with real end users. This research has the potential to facilitate application development and more efficient, adaptive usage of resources.

Research Partners

University of Oulu
   MediaTeam Oulu 
   Intelligent Systems Group
   Centre for Wireless Communications
   Department of Marketing
   Department of Information Processing Science
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT)
   Mobile Computing Group
University of Lapland
   Department of Industrial Design
Helsinki University of Art and Design (TAIK)
   Media Laboratory

Financiers and Industrial Partners

Digia
Nokia
City of Oulu
Sensinode
Tekes
TeliaSonera Finland

Research collaboration

Inria Rocquencourt, France
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, Germany
Waseda Univeristy, Japan

Director of the Program

Professor Timo Ojala

Program Manager

Marika Leskelä

Project Manager

Hannu Kukka