We are forming a new team at the Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto to define and carry out research, design, and development focused on innovative user interfaces for mobile devices and services to accompany them.
Future User Interfaces and Interaction Solutions Research program (FUIIS) is a four year, multi million Euro research initiative to investigate the possibilities in the User Interface domain. The program looks at technologies ranging from SW interfaces to Audio and Haptics experience as well as teh HW and mechanics implementation of these interfaces. FUIIS started in 2004 and is closing down by the end of 2007. The program consists of about 20 projects each ranging about 2-3 years in lenght.
Important! An improved version of the Activity Monitor, renamed to Nokia Step Counter, is available from Nokia Beta Labs.
Overview
Providing easy access to data and applications on the mobile device via natural language.
Nokia Computer Vision LibraryThe NokiaCV Library builds on the Symbian OS, extending imaging capabilities and standardizing the OS image internals. The library provides standard image operations, as well as a set of linear algebra operations needed in many advanced imaging applications. This serves as a building block for future advanced libraries. Some of the extensions are likely to be created by our research teams and be provided in future releases, but anyone can extend the library.
Figure 1: Rummy game based on MoGS.
The MoGS project was set up to investigate the possibility of building a portable server API for multi-player mobile games, able to support the game server logic of many different games. The language chosen was Java, as this is a very convenient language for developing servers. For the networking technology, we chose Bluetooth.
The Mobile Augmented Reality Applications project explores utilizing camera equipped mobile devices as platforms for sensor-based, video see-through mobile augmented reality. The project also investigates new and exciting applications enabled by this technology, and UI solutions and paradigms motivated by the restrictions of the mobile devices.
