mQoL: experiences of the 'mobile communications and computing for quality of life' living lab

TY - GEN

T1 - mQoL

T2 - IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)

AU - Wac, Katarzyna

AU - Gustarini, Mattia

AU - Marchanoff, Jerome

AU - Fanourakis, Marios

AU - Tsiourti, Christiana

AU - Ciman, Matteo

AU - Hausmann, Jody

AU - Pinar, Gerardo

N1 - Conference code: 17

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - Widespread acceptance and use of personalized mobile devices facilitates the provision of the ubiquitous mobile communications and computing applications that enable the human Quality of Life (QoL) improvement. However, there are multiple human factors influencing these applications, stemming from their users' needs, expectations, and ways of maximizing their experience and the impact on their QoL. For a successful adoption of these applications, our mobile technologies lab, mQoL, employs an iterative, user-centric, Living Lab approach for the applications' design and evaluation. This paper introduces the concept of mobile technologies for QoL specifically aiming to first understand the individual's QoL from information available in mobile devices, i.e., assess physical, psychological, social or environmental aspects of a daily life of an individual, and, based on this understanding, provide services to improve this individual's QoL. This paper also explains the methodological aspects of our research, including transdisciplinarity aspects, and delineates the research challenges for a Living Lab approach at large.

AB - Widespread acceptance and use of personalized mobile devices facilitates the provision of the ubiquitous mobile communications and computing applications that enable the human Quality of Life (QoL) improvement. However, there are multiple human factors influencing these applications, stemming from their users' needs, expectations, and ways of maximizing their experience and the impact on their QoL. For a successful adoption of these applications, our mobile technologies lab, mQoL, employs an iterative, user-centric, Living Lab approach for the applications' design and evaluation. This paper introduces the concept of mobile technologies for QoL specifically aiming to first understand the individual's QoL from information available in mobile devices, i.e., assess physical, psychological, social or environmental aspects of a daily life of an individual, and, based on this understanding, provide services to improve this individual's QoL. This paper also explains the methodological aspects of our research, including transdisciplinarity aspects, and delineates the research challenges for a Living Lab approach at large.

KW - Context

KW - Mobile communication

KW - Mobile handsets

KW - Quality of service

KW - Servers

KW - Sociology

KW - Software

KW - Mobile computing

KW - Quality of Experience

KW - Quality of Service

KW - ethics

KW - wireless communications

U2 - 10.1109/HealthCom.2015.7454494

DO - 10.1109/HealthCom.2015.7454494

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-4673-8325-7

SP - 177

EP - 181

BT - 2015 17th International Conference on E-health Networking, Application Services (HealthCom)

PB - IEEE

Y2 - 14 October 2015 through 17 October 2015

ER -