The Way We Live Next

Demos


 

People & Places

  • 3D in mobile Devices

    User experience as intense as live! 3D enables immersive and emotionally rich communication. Implementation of emerging MVC (multi-view video coding) standard on a portable device with real-time 3D video, stereo 3D content from free-hand photos and stereoscopic movie content will be shown. Watch the 3D in mobile Devices video.

  • Gaze Tracker

    Wearable near-to-eye display with integrated eye gaze tracker for mobile hands-free experience with full interaction capabilities. Besides conventional pointing, tracking the user gaze point on a virtual image or even in the real world enables disruptive and intuitive applications possible with no other input device. Watch the Gaze Tracker video.

  • Image Space

    contextualizes user created content. It offers a new way to explore and share photos and create a mirror world full of digital content. Users can experience places and collaborate in a novel fashion. The mash-up architecture enables creative development and adoption of Image Space. Watch the Image Space video.

  • Location enhanced connectivity

    Find people, places, and objects around you – point at another device to send a message. A range up to 100 m between a device and a small tag, up to 500 m between two devices. No network or GPS needed.

  • Indoor Positioning

    provides a positioning and location-based service inside a building. Users can add new buildings and can contribute measurement data and context information. Indoor maps are enhanced by user-created Point-of-Interests. The indoor positioning platform respects privacy.

  • Local Interaction

    takes social-networking and location-based services indoors: find your friends based on indoor positioning, browse nearby places on indoor maps, add media and comments to indoor places. All of this is easy to access on your web-enabled phone. Watch the Local Interaction video.

  • Friend View

    is a pleasant location-based social environment that helps users feel closer to friends, by creating awareness of their moods and activities, and enabling them to keep in touch. It uses location sharing enabled by the user. A micro-blogging approach is used to fill in the little moments of the day. Watch the Friend View video.

  • Nokia Point & Find

    enables people on the move to access information and services on the internet, simply by pointing a camera phone at real-world objects. In the first beta version of Point & Find to be released in the near future, users can instantly watch the film trailer, read the review, or find the closest cinema to buy tickets, simply by pointing a camera phone at a poster for a new movie. Watch the Nokia Point & Find video.

  • Storm Detection

    An application that enhances the ordinary human senses and alerts the user to severe weather risks which he would not normally detect. Gives the user more time to react to the risk, and also creates a unique way to experience dramatic weather events.



Green Research

  • Nokia Carbon Calculator

    in a mobile device automatically detects of the mode of transport or method of travel and calculates travel-related CO2 emissions. Nokia Carbon Calculator offers an easy way to consumers to monitor their CO2 emissions and motivates them to reduce their carbon footprint.

  • Conscious consumption

    service demo illustrates the possibility of offering community feedback to individual users using barcodes as a source for information searches. The project explores mobile social media as a tool for ethical consumer activism.

Reaching for the future

  • The Morph concept device

    launched alongside The Museum of Modern Art “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition, showcases some revolutionary leaps being explored by Nokia Research Center in collaboration with the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre in United Kingdom. The nanoscale technologies that will potentially create a world of radically different devices open up an entirely new spectrum of possibilities. More about the Morph concept and the Morph concept video: http://www.nokia.com/A4852062

  • Ubiquitous Imaging

    - Touch UI for image bursts. Touch displays on smart phones allow interactive blending of several images captured as a burst into a final image that is better or more interesting than any of the inputs. Our prototype uses a touch interface on an N810 internet tablet to edit multi-exposure and multi-focal image stacks.

    - Automatically generated tourist maps. With a large enough dataset of geo-located and tagged images from online repositories, our system clusters matching images and deduces the popular tourist areas, their locations, names, and images that are representative of those areas. It then creates a tourist map where the areas are highlighted and a unique map icon is generated for each landmark.

    - Landmark-based pedestrian navigation. Online collections of geotagged photographs can be leveraged to automatically generate navigational instructions, which are presented to the user as a sequence of images of landmarks enhanced with directional instructions.

  • Video conferencing pet

    Dedicated conferencing devices are mature technology, yet rarely used in homes. Jeppe is a playful prototype designed to discover insights into improving user acceptance of domestic conferencing and telepresence. Acting as a physical avatar of the caller, it supports movement, voice and video communication enhanced with gestures for richer emotional expressiveness.

  • ShakerRacer

    is a RC car controlled with a mobile device with the acceleration sensor. Experience S60 sensor technology in a fun way. Drive a remote controlled car over Bluetooth by tilting the phone. More info on ShakerRacer http://symbian-resources.com/projects/shakerracer.php . Watch the ShakerRacer video.

  • Nokia Beta Labs

    is a public website where the most passionate Nokia users can explore exciting beta applications and services by Nokia, and make a difference in their further development by engaging in a direct dialogue with their development teams. The website is open to everyone at: www.nokia.com/betalabs. Watch the Nokia Beta Labs video.

  • Nokia Authentication Solution

    is the world's first mobile phone-based anti-counterfeiting solution. The solution utilises NFC (Near Field Communications) technology to protect products and enables users to retrieve relevant product information quickly and easily. The Nokia Solution is already being successfully deployed in China by Nokia and other companies. Watch the Nokia Authentication Solution video.

  • Mobiledu

    is a wireless learning solution provided by Nokia that integrates device, content, and services for mobile users to learn and share in an effective and efficient way. It can run on both the Kjava and Symbian platforms and support text, audio, images, quizes, exercises, course ratings, and advertisements. After one year operation, it has had 20,000 courseware visited by 3 million users. Watch the Mobiledu video.

  • Context Aware Widgets

    Developers can easily develop widgets where consumers can enjoy a context-aware & personalized experience. The evolution of Web Runtime continues with access to device platform services. Widgets can now access calendar, phonebook, location, messaging, etc.

Accessibility - Enabling senses

  • Nokia Wireless Loopset

    The BT loopset provides hearing aid or cochlear implant users with a hassle-free and hands-free connection to their mobile devices and also any other Bluetooth enabled devices.

  • Voice Idle (Generic voice feedback in S60 v.3.2)

    With voice idle, the user may access phone functionality with spoken feedback. This means that the device may be used without looking at the display. With clear spoken instructions the user can browse recent calls, look up someone in their phonebook, check the time and their voice mail, launch voice dialing and read out messages. Watch the Voice Idle video.

  • Vodafone Speak

    The operator's offering for blind users and users with severe vision impairment. Includes the service package coupled to the third party software solution, a Code Factory application in Nokia devices. Third party development is enabled by open source platform through Forum Nokia.

  • In Voice Assisted Voice text input (VATI)

    voice input is seamlessly integrated into normal text input. So, voice is not the main method for composing a message but an enhancement for traditional text input. The user can type text messages in a normal way using improved word prediction avoiding having to learn how to get to grips with a totally new UI. However, they can additionally say aloud the word they are entering using the keys thus improving the prediction accuracy. Watch the In Voice Assisted Voice text input video.

Some of the research projects listed in this document are demostrations of future applications and use scenarios across Nokia. They are not part of Nokia's current offering.