Davies, Nigel and Friday, Adrian and Storz, Oliver and Blefari-Melazzi, N. and Ceneri, G. and Cortese, G. and Dellas, N. and Hamard, J. and Koutsoloukas, E. and Niedermeier, C. and Noda, C. and Papanis, J. and Rukzio, Enrico and Petrioli, C. and Urban, J. (2004) The simplicity project: easing the burden of using complex and heterogeneous ICT devices and services. In: 13th IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit 2004, 2004-06-27 - 2004-06-30.
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Abstract
As of today, to exploit the variety of different "services", users need to configure each of their devices by using different procedures and need to explicitly select among heterogeneous access technologies and protocols. In addition to that, users are authenticated and charged by different means. The lack of implicit human computer interaction, context-awareness and standardisation places an enormous burden of complexity on the shoulders of the final users. The IST-Simplicity project aims at leveraging such problems by: i) automatically creating and customizing a user communication space; ii) adapting services to user terminal characteristics and to users preferences; iii) orchestrating network capabilities. The aim of this paper is to present the technical framework of the IST-Simplicity project. This paper is a thorough analysis and qualitative evaluation of the different technologies, standards and works presented in the literature related to the Simplicity system to be developed.