Pune, India, 13 – 15 December 2010 ITU-T Kaleidoscope 2010 Beyond the Internet? - Innovations for future networks and services Klemen Peternel Luka Zebec, Andrej Kos University of Ljubljana Faculty of Electrical Engineering Laboratory for telecommunications – LTFE Innovative tangible user interface as a mean for interacting telecommunications services

2 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of EE University of Ljubljana founded in 1919 consists of 22 Faculties & 3 Academies employs approx students approx Faculty of Electrical Engineering students approx employs approx. 300 Laboratory for Telecommunications (LTFE) Pune, India, 13 – 15 Dec 2010: ITU-T Kaleidoscope 2010

Laboratory for Telecommunications Extensive partnership with industry, research, educational and governmental environments Team of 50+ young and motivated people The biggest and most propulsive lab at Faculty of EE Excellence in innovative telecommunications Pune, India, 13 – 15 Dec 2010: ITU-T Kaleidoscope 2010

Laboratory for Telecommunications Fields of Research & Development Telecommunication networks, services and solutions Multimedia systems and solutions Protocols and applications Testing, measurements and evaluation Research studies and analyses Project cooperation and consulting E-learning, M-learning, Game Based Learning Multimedia e-courses and content development More on Pune, India, 13 – 15 Dec 2010: ITU-T Kaleidoscope 2010

Innovative TUI as a mean for interacting telecommunications services Pune, India, 13 – 15 Dec 2010: ITU-T Kaleidoscope 2010

Pune, India, 13 – 15 Dec 2010: ITU-T Kaleidoscope Interaction bandwidth Network bandwidth is ever greater, but the interaction bandwidth is standing still Keyboard Keypad Button Touchscreen Complex menu structures

Challenge How to extend interaction bandwidth? In order to help people who have difficulties with the usage of communication devices People with special needs (e.g. elderlies) 7 Pune, India, 13 – 15 Dec 2010: ITU-T Kaleidoscope 2010

In the real world we are surrounded by various objects Practical value Informational value Emotional value Real world objects 8 Pune, India, 13 – 15 Dec 2010: ITU-T Kaleidoscope 2010

We can change what we can touch Connect real world objects to existing telecommunications systems Physical digital mapping New edge UI Objects manipulation 9 Legacy telecommunications systems Pune, India, 13 – 15 Dec 2010: ITU-T Kaleidoscope 2010

Concept Build physical phonebook Move contacts from digital phonebook to the physical board strings -> photos (emotional value) Add NFC tag to each photo/image Use NFC probe to trigger communication event 10 Pune, India, 13 – 15 Dec 2010: ITU-T Kaleidoscope 2010

11 Solution architecture Client side application on the NFC probe NFC mobile phone Server side communication logic composition Web service NGN gateway at the north side of the operators network Parlay X CSTA Pune, India, 13 – 15 Dec 2010: ITU-T Kaleidoscope 2010

NGN gateway Gateway enables developers to access call control functions via WS Keep it simple, stupid SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) - North XML Over HTTP Parlay X ICT protocols – South CSTA, INAP 12 Pune, India, 13 – 15 Dec 2010: ITU-T Kaleidoscope 2010

NGN Gateway implementation Third Party Call, Audio Call Call triggering (user2user, user2vxml) Call Notification, Call Direction, Call Handling Call notification, call redirection, call forwardings SMS, MMS Sending and receiving 13 Pune, India, 13 – 15 Dec 2010: ITU-T Kaleidoscope 2010

14 SS Communication Logic Composition Receiving Touch events tag_value Communicates with NGN Gateway Via Parlay X web services Keeps users communication state Current call status IN_A_CALL, NOT_IN_A_CALL, RINGING SMS composition logic Compose SMS Send to various recipients SOAP (ParlayX) NFCEvent(String tag_value) CNChanged(String calling_party) Pune, India, 13 – 15 Dec 2010: ITU-T Kaleidoscope 2010

NFC probe In our demo as a NFC enabled mobile phone Acts as a remote controller NFC application Reads and sends (via WS) tag values to the server logic Writes to tag Notifies action completion to the user (sound & vibration notifications) Industrial implementation NFC Probe inside the handset 15 Pune, India, 13 – 15 Dec 2010: ITU-T Kaleidoscope 2010

Semantics 16 Pune, India, 13 – 15 Dec 2010: ITU-T Kaleidoscope 2010

Touch flows (vs. menu structures) 17 Pune, India, 13 – 15 Dec 2010: ITU-T Kaleidoscope 2010

Thank you for the attention Additional information: Prof. Andrej Kos, Ph. D.: Klemen Peternel, Ph. D. Student: Pune, India, 13 – 15 Dec 2010: ITU-T Kaleidoscope 2010