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Item Social Acceptance and Usage Experiences from a Mobile Location-Aware Service Environment(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012) Klein, Bernhard; Pérez-Velasco, Jorge; Guggenmos, Christian; Pihlajamaa, Olli; Heino, Immo; Del Ser, Javier; Tecnalia Research & Innovation; IAMUGGES is a European research project with the goal of evaluating peer-to-peer service concepts based on GNSS systems for mobile phones. MUGGES provides an infrastructure to create, publish, provide and consume mobile micro-services directly from mobile devices. As part of the project four application prototypes have been developed, which allow for the description and sharing of places and routes between users. This paper reports about a user trial conducted in real environments with early adopters. The goal has been to identify benefits and best practices for the type of applications envisioned in the MUGGES project. The obtained results indicate that users like to share information about preferred places or routes, and see it as a complementary application to already existing applications such as Facebook or Twitter. These types of applications are often used in time-killing situations, e.g. at the bus stop. Their value lies on the highlighting of important places or non-everyday events, and on making daily coordinations simpler. People feel that the application is less intrusive, since no information such as the whereabouts of persons are shared anyhow.Item Towards Ambient Assisted Cities and Citizens(IEEE, 2013-07-01) López-de-Ipiña, Diego; Klein, Bernhard; Vanhecke, Sacha; Pérez-Velasco, Jorge; Tecnalia Research & InnovationResearch on Smart Cities brings about ICT innovations towards aiding users in their daily activities, anticipating to their needs or suggesting service consumption towards a better vital experience. The city is a challenging environment for anybody elderly or with disabilities. Addressing these challenges so that elderly or disabled people encounter inclusive, friendlier, cities which are not frightening but supporting is the motivation of this work. Concretely, it lays out the ICT basis over which an ecosystem of user-centric urban apps aiding citizens in their daily activities may be assembled.Item User-Aware Location Management of Prosumed Micro-services(2014-03) Klein, Bernhard; López-de-Ipiña, Diego; Guggenmos, Christian; Pérez-Velasco, Jorge; Tecnalia Research & InnovationThe MUGGES mobile service prosuming platform aims at enabling user-aware service provision and consumption from the very mobile devices in a true peer-to-peer manner, still providing centralized support to user- and location-aware micro-service searching. Thus, users will not only provide contents but also launch and host services from their own mobile devices. Explorative field trials in Spain and Finland assessing the potential of the ‘prosuming concept' were carried out for several weeks with students and IT professionals. The feedback gathered from end-users showed that the MUGGES proposed location concept eases service creation and consumption, although service provisioning from mobile devices is still in its infancy.