Daniel Fällman: Wearables in limbo: towards generalization or specialization of use?

The current trend within the field of wearable computing seems to be towards specialization of application within areas such as medicine, military use, construction, maintenance, process control and navigation. In this presentation, I will briefly introduce the field of wearable computing and report on my IRIS '22 paper titled "Embodied Systems: Introducing General-purpose Wearable Computers". An embodied system is a notion of a wearable computer with no single field of application; with generalization rather than specialization of use as its first objective. The embodied system aims to provide a basic set of properties and functions feasible for a general-purpose wearable computer for everyday use.

Daniel Skog: Information visualization: comparing the use of traditional and advanced visualization techniques

Modern information technology provides new techniques for information visualization and communication. With these advanced visualization techniques complex information spheres can be represented using virtual models, making it easier for the user to access the information. I am going to present the result of an experiment in which the use of a traditional visualization technique was compared with the use of an advanced technique. The experiment aimed to show the characteristics and functions of the different techniques and on the basis of the results of the experiment I try to conclude some of the consequences of using virtual models as information representations. My presentation will be a summery of my paper Virtual information representation, which was sent to IRIS 22.

Mikael Wiberg: Exploring the vision of 'anytime, anywhere' in the context of mobile work

Recently some researcher has argued that the vision of mobile work should be to be able to perform work 3anytime, anywhere2. However, in this chapter we will argue that the "anytime, anywhere" vision actually belongs to another trend, i.e. the global village trend. In this chapter we try to investigate how the trend of the global village and the trend of mobility hang together in practice. We do so by investigate the question empirically. The case study has been conducted at Telia within Åke Grönlunds project on 'Effects of IT on the geographical distribution of work'. We found there are: (1) travelling that seems difficult to remove, (2) time frames which seem very difficult for staff not to do certain tasks within and (3) tasks that do not seem to be restricted by time and place. From the analysis of the empirical study presented above, we argue that there are several limits to the vision of 3anytime, anywhere2 mobile work.

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Per-Olof Ågren