In collaboration with leading environmental scientists the EcoSense project shall develop technologies to measure, analyze and reduce the environmental footprint.

The objective of EcoSense is to develop novel collective sensing, macroscopic analysis and visualization methods for streams of semantically annotated (e.g. with location) measurement data from which climate impacts can be inferred. EcoSense methods aggregate data from smartphones (with or without special apps) with data from sensors mounted in vehicles/­vessels/­buildings, and provide real time macroscopic analysis, visualization, and alerts for decision makers or evaluators. The visions to provide individuals and decision makers reliable eco-aware tools: 1) to measure whether energy reduction programs achieve their predicted effects; and 2) to identify potential new initiatives that may be launched to reduce climate impact. EcoSense tools are critical, since global warming concerns have led the EU to decide that developed coun­tries by 2020 should reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 20% and enact energy efficiency guidelines. Our hypothesis is that greater awareness of cli­mate im­pacts enabled by our methods empowers individuals, companies, institu­tions, and public spaces to reduce greenhouse gas emission by 5-10 %. This is sup­ported by surveys showing that alone knowledge of impact makes people change their environmental behavior. Further reductions may be gained via changed govern­ment policies based on EcoSense analysis results. We apply the methods to a range of cases with end-user organi­zations, e.g. green city programs in Aarhus, Copenhagen and Sønderborg, company programs on CO₂ foot­printing, electrical vehicles, and shipping. EcoSense is a strategic research project and joint development effort between univer­sities, indu­strial partners, and municipalities that helps assure research excellence, societal rele­vance, and inno­va­tion nationally and inter­nationally via network and partners

PIXLDANCE passed its first major test at the Roskilde Festival 2011. Now, the sound and movement installation will be placed permanently in Musicon, the new Roskilde district where it becomes part of the digital Pixlpark.

PIXLDANCE's two six-meter-high towers with interactive sounds and lights lured plenty of festival guests. and project manager and interaction designer Liselott Stenfeldt states that the installation overcame both crowds as water volumes.

Pixlpark opens on 13 October 2011 and PIXLDANCE will meet dancing people day and night.

In collaboration with Jerichau Design, Skanderborg Festival and Alexandra Institute Interactive Spaces has developed a safety waistcoat that recharges energy.

Mobile technologies biggest weakness is that they rely on stationary power sources. This problem can be solved by using intelligent textiles. An area with surprisingly little research and development. Jesper Nielsen, Interactive Spaces, has taken the lead up and has helped to initiate the development of the safety waistcoat.

The waistcoat was tested in a pilot project at Skanderborg Festival, where security guards often experienced that their mobile phones ran out of power during the night. By means of bendable and flexible solar panels placed in the shoulder of a safety waistcoat, batteries placed on the waistcoat were recharged.

The interactive installation DIGIdance challenges the guests at Roskilde festival to use their bodies to evoke sound and light. In two six-meter high towers the dancing guests activate a number of sensors, which triggers both a soundtrack and pulsating light.

Read more about DIGIdance (in Danish only) http://www.alexandra.dk/dk/lige_nu/nyheder/nyheder-2011/Sider/digital-legeplads.aspx

Learn more about the project (in Danish only) http://www.musicon.dk/webtop/site.aspx?p=3527&newsid=4322

See videoclips here; http://vimeo.com/26159956

Interaction Spaces at the Alexandra Institute has, in cooperation with the firm Munin Sports and Active Institute, developed the Football Lab - the world's first interactive football ground - for the football team Herning Fremad’s new football experiment.

The aim is to motivate the players’ skills by mixing serious ball exercises with elements of computer games which make it possible to measure ball skills and compare theses with others.

The opening was covered by DR

On May 6, 2011, DAC opens an exhibition showing the winning project and other highlighted proposals from the Danish Architecture Centre (DAC) and Roskilde Festival’s architectural design competition. The exhibition includes SwingScape, developed by the Center of Interactive Spaces. SwingScape is an interactive installation that comes into play at the visitor’s physical activities. The installation invites people into an activity which most of us know from our childhood – to swing.

With the competition DAC and Roskilde Festival wanted to give people the chance to influence the physical surroundings at the 2011 Roskilde Festival. They were looking for an architectural design that engage people, something that make them stop and think. A place to rest, hang out or a place to have fun with your fellow festival guests.

The Roskilde Festival architecture has a long tradition of working in a sustainable manner and designing temporary structures that look fantastic and can be re-used again and again.

Kaj Grønbæk was moderator and speaker at the Digitize Denmark 2011 conference in Aarhus. It is the eighth consecutive year that the Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation holds the digital conference in cooperation with numerous public and private partners.

Press:

http://www.computerworld.dk/art/115379/saadan-goer-du-velfaerden-mobil?a=fp_3&i=1

http://epn.dk/teknologi2/article2393261.ece

The new Roskilde quarter Musicon now receives a digital playground. Interactive spaces is helping to develop the overall concept and the two large physical installations DIGIdance and SwingScape.

The vision is to create a digital playground that appeals to all age groups. The Digital Playground is intended as a place where movement, digital media, play and experience are coupled in the urban space. The playground is an important element in the development of a playing Roskilde and is implemented during the year 2011.

The guests at the upcoming Roskilde Festival will also meet the installations. They are mobile and are moved to the festival area.

CRC Press has released the book Mobile Web 2.0: Developing and Delivering Services to Mobile Devices edited by Syed A. Ahson and Mohammad Ilyas. The book includes a chapter presenting the UrbanWeb approach to developing Web 2.0 service authored by Post. Doc. Frank Allan Hansen and Professor Kaj Grønbæk.

CRC Press has released the book Mobile Web 2.0: Developing and Delivering Services to Mobile Devices edited by Syed A. Ahson and Mohammad Ilyas. The book includes a chapter presenting the UrbanWeb approach to developing Web 2.0 service authored by Post. Doc. Frank Allan Hansen and Professor Kaj Grønbæk. The book is availble directly from CRC Press and Amazon.

Book Features

* Identifies the main challenges in Mobile Web 2.0 applications
* Discusses various platforms for developing mobile services
* Tests a number of hypotheses on the use of software implementation technology and location context
* Introduces a technique that lets end users adapt the layout of Web pages and automatically reapplies those preferences on subsequent visits
* Considers the effect of context on mobile usability
* Proposes an expanded model of mobile application context


Book Summary

From basic concepts to research grade material, Mobile Web 2.0: Developing and Delivering Services to Mobile Devices provides complete and up-to-date coverage of the range of technical topics related to Mobile Web 2.0. It brings together the work of 51 pioneering experts from around the world who identify the major challenges in Mobile Web 2.0 applications and provide authoritative insight into many of their own innovations and advances in the field.

To help you address contemporary challenges, the text details a conceptual framework that provides modeling facilities for context-aware, multi-channel Web applications. It compares various platforms for developing mobile services—from the developer and user perspectives—and explains how to use high-level modeling constructs to drive the application development process through automatic code generation.

* Proposes an expanded model of mobile application context
* Explores mobile social software as an Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
* Discusses the effect of context on mobile usability

Through empirical study, the book tests a number of hypotheses on the use of software implementation technology and location context in mobile applications. It introduces Reusable End-User Customization (REUC)—a technique that allows users to adapt the layout of Web pages and automatically reapplies those preferences on subsequent visits. It also investigates the need for non-visual feedback with long system response times, particularly when downloading Web pages to mobile devices.

Authors

Designing for Mobility; Janne Pekko Kaasalainen
Designing Mobile User Interfaces for Internet Services; Elina Vartiainen
Mobile Usability; Harald Ame lung, Christoph Ohl, Gabriele Schade, and Sascha Wagner
The Blind Leading the Blind: Web Accessibility Research Leading Mobile Web Usability; Andy Brown, Yeliz Yesilada, Caroline Jay, and Simon Harper
Technological Solutions to Support Mobile Web 2.0 Services; Claudia Canali, Michele Colajanni, and Riccardo Lance llotti
Mobile Internet Services or Services for Multiplatform Use; Anne Kaikkonen
UrbanWeb: A Platform for Mobile, Context-Aware Web Services; Frank Allan Hansen and Kaj Grønbæk
MyMobileWeb 4: A Framework for Adaptive Mobile Web 2.0 Applications and Portals; José Manuel Cantera Fonseca, Cristian Rodríguez de la Cruz, Ignacio Marín Prendes, and Miguel Jiménez Gañán
Mobile Search and Browsing; Berna Erol, Jiebo Luo, and Vidya Setlur
Ontologies for Context Definition on Mobile Devices: Improving the Mobile Web Search; Jesús Vegas and Daniel Aréchiga
Deploying Intelligent Mobile Applications: Server or Device; Ben Falchuk
Hosting Web Services on Mobile Devices; Muhammad Asif and Shikharesh Majumdar
Mobile Web Service Provisioning in Cellular Enterprise; Satish Narayana Srirama and Matthias Jarke
Real-Time Web for Mobile Devices; David Linner and Rafael Grote
Super-Peer-Based Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks; Sathish Rajasekhar, Ibrahim Kh alil, and Zahir Tari
Woodapples: A New Approach for Context-Aware Mobile Marketing; Stephan Haslinger, Florian Skopik, Daniel Schall, and Martin Treiber
JAVA IMS Mobile Application Development; Javier Díaz, Claud ia Que iruga, and Jorge Rosso
User Evaluation of Mobile Phone as a Platform for Healthcare Applications; Javier Sierra, Miguel Angel Santiago, Iiro Jantunen, Eija Kaasinen, Harald Kaaja, Matthias Müllenborn, Nicolas Tille, and Juha Virtanen
Secured Transmission and Authentication; Fahim Sufi and Ibrahim Khalil
Efficient Transmission in Telecardiology; Fahim Sufi and Ibrahim Khalil
Efficient Cardiovascular Diagnosis; Fahim Sufi and Ibrahim Khalil

Center for Interactive Spaces presented two projects at the “Uddannelsesforum 2010: The Wisdom Well, which is an interactive floor that combines play, movement and learning, and Mobile Learning Platforms where mobile phones are integrated in teaching using GPS technology to attach digital information to physical locations. In this way the studnets receive assignments that are related to where they are.

During the two days key people from the educational sector, teachers and students were inspired to how the future teaching might look like. But they also gave inspiration to the project participants on the future development of the systems. Hence, they eagerly networked across the stands and with the visitors and the first emerging initiatives for possible future cooperation were made.

Jonas Bø Dahl from the Tornbjerg school in Odense tells about his experiences with the Wisdom Well at their school.

Read more about Uddannelsesforum 2010

Fact sheet about Wisdom Well (in Danish)

Fact sheet about Mobile Learning Platforms (in Danish)

Interactive Spaces participates with two demo-setups when Culture Night on Friday October 15, 2010 is marked at the head office of the Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation.

Interactive Spaces participates with two demo-setups when Culture Night on Friday October 15, 2010 is marked at the head office of the Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation. One is the digital school bag eBag, which arises out of the iSchool research project. The second is the interactive floor, Wisdom Wells, which is installed in a number of Danish schools, including Møllevang skolen in Aarhus