Click to edit Master title style Challenges & Trends for Next-generation Smartphone Apps Application-oriented IT Research: FRANK ALLAN HANSEN PRODUCT MANAGER ALEXANDRA MOBILE APPS RESEARCH AND INNOVATION SCIENTIST, PHD INTERACTIVE SPACES LABTHE ALEXANDRA INSTITUTE LTD. frank.allan.hansen@ alexandra.dk
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Challenges & Trends for Next-generation Smartphone Apps
Application-oriented IT Research:
FRANK ALLAN HANSEN
PRODUCT MANAGER ALEXANDRA MOBILE APPS
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION SCIENTIST, PHDINTERACTIVE SPACES LABTHE ALEXANDRA INSTITUTE LTD.
Challenges & Trends for Next-generation smartphone apps
• Introduction• The current app paradigm• Three perspectives on next generation smartphone apps
– Overlaying the world– Interacting with objects and controlling the environment– Apps as glue for digital activities
• Wrap up and conclusion
Agenda
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• Private research institute founded in 1999• Part of the GTS network (Godkendt teknologisk service)• Focus on applied, research-based innovation in pervasive
computing– Pervasive Healthcare, Interactive Spaces, Advanced visualization, New Ways of
Working, Software, Pervasive Positioning, It-security and Business and processes
• Non-profit company that works with application-oriented IT research and development and sells IT services and products to the Danish industry.
• Bridge-builder between research, private corporations, public institutions and citizens.
• Based in the IT-city Katrinebjerg in Aarhus and the IT-University in Copenhagen.
The Alexandra Institute
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• Social networking, games, photography,…
• Simple focused apps• Rich in detail• Rich interaction
– Touch and gesture based
• Lot of attention to design and detail
• However, apps are often monolithic• Developed for their own digital niche• Not much integration with the user’s
world
The current app paradigm
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Smartphones as “smart” devices
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Smartphones as “smart” devices
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• Very powerful devices– Quad core CPUs, Dedicated GPUs, etc
• Next generation apps should utilize this technology
• Apps should be aware of the user’s context– Adapt functionality and application behavior– Present and filter relevant information– Allow the user to control and interact with the surroundings
• Not an “easy” task of course…• So new software tools and ideas are needed
Digital-physical apps
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1. Overlaying the world
April 8, 2023 Minority Report (2002)
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• Digital Threads (Digitale Tråde)• Location-based augmented reality
– GPS, Accelerometer, Compass
• Developed with Museum Midtjylland• Displays excavation sites and
historical buildings in the landscape
• Challenge:– Turned out to be “complex” to
implement– Accuracy depends on the smartphone
sensors
Location-based AR
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• Storm P Museum• Skovgaard Museum• Developed for Redia
– http://www.redia.dk/
• Vision based• Based on feature models• Overlays graphics, animation
and control over the camera image.
• Challenge:– Very dependent on light conditions– Scalability: hard to model