Previous projects
:on social mobile interaction & ubiquitous computing

During the recent years I have been working on the following research projects which all relates to social mobile interaction design and ubiquitous computing in one way or another.

Follow this link if you are interested in publications related to the following projects:



Moving Pictures - A robust, tangible and accessible multi-user unit containing a set of tools that enable children to edit and share video with children in other countries. In collaboration with the Design school in Umeå and MIT Media Lab Europe in Dublin.

Negotiator- A smartphone application designed to support micro-negotiations of availability in mobile settings.

One Pixel Display - A one-pixel ambient display. In collaboration with Andreas Lund and Annika Westergren at Interactive Institute, Tools studio.


FolkMusic - A mobile and ad-hoc peer-to-peer based entertainment plattform for mobile music sharing. You can find a pressrelease about this project here (only in swedish).


ScrollPad - A mobile peephole display to support browsing of large documents on small screen devices. This display was developed in collaboration with Daniel Fällman & Andreas Lund.

RoamWare - As one part of my PhD- thesis I developed a novel mobile device designed to support continous and seamless interaction across mobile meetings and dispersed computer mediated interaction.

UbiqBoard - A networked embedded display augmenting a traditional office door whiteboard to support remote coordination.

RoamMug - Augmentating everyday objects (including coffee mugs and books) to support social workplace awareness and smooth transitions between co-located informal meetings and online communication.

Welcome!

My name is Mikael Wiberg and I am an Associate Professor here at the Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden. I received my Ph.D. in Informatics at Umeå University in 2001.

I am a member of the CMID Research group, the Research Network for Mobile Interaction & Pervasive Social Devices, and the IDE - Interaction in Dynamic Environments Research Network. I also serve as an official contact person for the research areas Human-Computer Interaction Design and Social interaction design within the research organization UCIT - Umeå Center for Interaction Technology.

I am also happy to serve as a first advisor for the PhD student Kalle Jegers, and as a second advisor for the PhD-students Annnakarin Nyberg and Rikard Harr here at the department of Informatics.

My research focuses on the emerging Interaction Society (see my new book entitled "The Interaction Society" in my list of publications) with related issues including mobile interaction technologies, mobile CSCW, mobile meetings, knowledge management in mobile settings, proximity based interaction, and session management for sustained and dynamic interaction across physical and virtual arenas.

Other areas of research interests include, but are not limited to:
- Ubiquitous computing
- Smart objects
- Ambient technologies/ambient displays
- Interactive Architecture & intelligent environments

I am currently approaching these areas from various methodological perspectives including e..g:

- Naturalistic studies
- Explorative interaction design studies, and
- Concept-driven Interaction Design studies

My book, "The Interaction Society: Practice, Theories & Supportive Technologies" is now available. (ISBN nr: 1591405300).

Idea-group Inc, the publishing company, describes the book as follows:

"New information technologies enable us to interact with each other in totally new ways. The Interaction Society: Practice, Theories and Supportive Technologies provides readers with a rich overview of the emerging interaction society enabled by these new information and communication technologies (ICT). Readers will gain a theoretically deep understanding of the core issues related to the character of the emerging interaction society, be exposed to empirical case studies that can help to understand the impact of this emergence through analysis of concrete examples, and benefit from descriptions of concrete design projects aimed at designing new novel information technologies to support activities in the interaction society."

You can find an interview with me about this book here, and you can also read the pressrelease about this book here (only in swedish).

For more information about this book follow this link.

To get hold of a copy of the book you can do one of the following:
You can buy it from bokus.se using this link, you can buy it directly from the publishing company using this link, or if you prefer, you can buy it from amazon.com using this link.

There are of course several research sites around the world that conducts interesting research related to the different projects mentioned on this page. To learn more about a few of these related research sites click here.

You can of course also use the contact information above and get in diect contact me if you would like to know more about any of these projects.

News

22/4-08 MUM´08 approval from ACM SigMobile!

Today we received an approval from ACM SigMobile to arrange MUM ´08 - "the 7th international conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia" as an official ACM conference. The conference will be arranged here in Umeå 3-5 Dec 2008 as a joint collaboration between Umeå university and LTU, and I will serve as the general conference chair for this event. For more information about this upcoming conference, and to download the cfp please navigate to: http://www.mum2008.org/

28/2-08 New research project!

Our new research and development project xID 2.0 - Interaction design in extreme environments got EU Target 2-funding from Nutek and "Strukturfondspartnerskapet för Övre Norrland" (2 milj SEK). Länsstyrelsen i Västerbotten are also funding the project (750 000 SEK) together with ICEHOTEL (510 000 SEK) andco-funding from the department of Informatics! This implies a total project budget close to 4,7 milj SEK for a three-year project.

Below I present a short description of this new project.

- [x]ID 2.0 - Interaction Design in eXtreme environments
In this project we conduct interaction design research in the context of extreme environments. There are four focus areas which this project will target including 1) turism, 2) industry, 3) space, and 4) mobility. The project runs from 1/1-2008 until 31/12-2010. Our collaboration partners include e.g.: ICEHOTEL, Apara, MultiQ, IRF, ZetaDisplay, Esrange and Ericsson.For an introduction to this area please read our white paper on "Interaktionsdesign i extrema miljöer" (in swedish) or send me an email if you want to know more about [x]ID 2.0.

External links about this new project:

Västerbottens Folkblad | EU delar ut över 40 miljoner

EU-miljoner till projekt - Norra Västerbotten

Teaching activities

Throughout the years I have been actively involved in teaching and course development. On a more detailed level I have been involved in the following courses:

A.2 Informationsteknologi, 5p
A.3 Design och utvärdering, 5p
A.3, Avancerad redigeringsteknik och postproduktion, 5p
A.1, Interaktionsdesign i digitala medier, 5p
A.1, Informationsteknik och dess tillämpning inom servicesektorn, 5p
B.2 Systemdesign, 5p
B.4, Informationsteknik och samhälle, 5p
C02.1, Informationssystem och organisationsförändring, 5p
C.04.1 Människa-dator interaktion, 5p
C.04.2 Informationsteknologi för samarbete, 5p
C.05.2 Datornätverk för nätverkssamhället, 5p
D.3 Designteori och designmetodologi, 5p
D.9 Undersökande system, 5p
Kvällskurs: Livet på nätet, 5p
Distanskurs: Det framväxande interaktionssamhället, 5p.
LAN-utbildning: Professionell IT-arkitektur: SOA

For more information about my current teaching activities follow this link.

Mikael Wiberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Informatics, Umeå University,
901 87 Umeå
Sweden 

Email: mwiberg@informatik.umu.se
URL:http://www.informatik.umu.se/~mwiberg/
Mobile: +46 (0)70 662 10 70
Phone: + 46 (0) 90 786 61 15

In progress

Harr, R., Wiberg, M. & Whittaker, S. (in progress) The survival of the social: Exploring interaction foraging behaviour in highly distributed professional social networks, To be submitted to an international journal.

Robles, E. & Wiberg, M. (in progress) The Architectural Register for Interaction, To be submitted to an international journal.

Holmström, J, Wiberg, M., Lund, A. (book proposal under review) Industrial Informatics: Perspectives, Interactions, Services.

Wiberg, M. (forthcoming) Near diagnostics: Machines, Routines and Interaction Landscapes, To appear in the book Industrial Informatics: Perspectives, Interactions, Services.

Stolterman, E. & Wiberg, M (submitted) Concept-driven Interaction Design Research, Submitted to an international journal.

Stolterman, E. & Wiberg, M (under review) Environment interaction, Submitted to the "PHYSICALITY AND INTERACTION" special journal issue of Interacting with Computers.

Wiberg, M. (forthcoming) Interactive Architecture or Interaction throught Textures, To appear in the book "Digital transformation of public places", Ed: Youngjin Yoo & Carl DiSalvo.

Recent publications

Wiberg, M. (2008) Re-Space-ing Place: Towards Mobile Support for Near Diagnostics, In "Mobile Work/Technology: Changing Patterns of Spatial Mobility and Mobile Technology Use in Work", ed. Donald Hislop, Routledge.

Wiberg, M. (2008) Anytime, Anywhere Mobility, in Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition, IDEA Group Inc.

Wiberg, M. (2007) Netlearning and Learning through Networks,accepted for publication in JETS - the international journal of educational technologies and society,in the forthcoming issue "Current Approaches to Network-Based Learning in Scandinavia".

Harr, R. and Wiberg, M. (2007) Lost in translation: Investigating the ambiguity of availability cues in an online media space, In the international journal "Behaviour & Information Technology" (BIT).

Wiberg, M. (2007) Midgets: Exploring the Design Space for Truly Liquid Media, In proceedings of the 1st international conference on cross-media interaction design - CMID ´07, 22-25 March, Hemavan, Sweden (full paper).

Bodén, J., Jegers, K., Lidström, M., Wiberg, C., Wiberg, M. (2007) Point or click? Evaluating two input modalities for mobile games, To appear in proceedings of ICIW ´07 - The Second International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, May 13-19, 2007, IEEE Computer Society Press.

Wiberg, C. & Wiberg, M (editors) (2007) Proceedings of CMID ´07 - the 1st international conference on Cross-Media Interaction Design, 22-25 March, Hemavan, Sweden.

Wiberg, M. (2006) Graceful Interaction In Intelligent Environments, in proceedings of the International Symposium on Intelligent Environments, 5-7 April, Cambridge. (full paper).

Jegers, K. & Wiberg, M. (2006) Pervasive Gaming in the Everyday World, in IEEE Pervasive Computing, January-February 2006 (Vol. 5, No. 1).

Wiberg, M., & Whittaker, S. (2005) Managing Availability: Supporting Lightweight Negotiations to Handle Interruptions, ACM Transactions of Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI), vol 12,4.

Jegers, K., Wiberg, C. & Wiberg, M. (2005) Pervasive gaming meets CSCW: Continuity, Collaboration & Context, Presented at the "Computer games & CSCW" workshop at the 9th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW ´05).

Wiberg, M. (2005) An Architecturally Situated Approach to Place-based Mobile Interaction Design, Presented at the "Location Awareness & Community" workshop at the 9th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW ´05).

Wiberg, M., (2005) Det framväxande interaktionssamhället - En förändrad tid och plats, Human IT - Tidskrift för studier av IT ur ett humanvetenskapligt perspektiv, vol. 8.1(2005): 96-125.

Vaucelle, C., Africano, D., Davenport, G., Wiberg, M., Fjellstrom, O. (2005). Moving Pictures: Looking Out / Looking In, Siggraph 2005 - The 32nd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Educators program.

Wiberg, M. (2005) "Anytime, Anywhere" in the Context of Mobile Work,Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology I-V, p. 131-134, IDEA Group Inc.
URL authors: http://www.idea-group.com/encyclopedia/details.asp?ID=4455&v=contributors

Wiberg, M. (Ed.) (2004) The Interaction Society: Practice, Theories, and Supportive Technologies, Information Science Publishing, IDEA-group Inc.  ISBN nr: 159140530,

Fallman, D., Lund, A., & Wiberg, M. (2004) Inside-Out Interaction: An Interaction Technique for Dealing with Large Interface Surfaces such as Web Pages on Small Screen Displays, SIGGRAPH 2004, the 31st international conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, Sketches program, 8-12 August, Los Angeles, USA.

Lund, A. & Wiberg, M. (2004) Ambient Displays Beyond Conventions, "Designing for attention" workshop, HCI 2004, The 18th British HCI Group Annual Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK 6-10 September 2004.

Jegers, K. & Wiberg, M. (2004) User Behavior in Pervasive Gaming, IEEE Pervasive computing: Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems, work-in-progress paper, January-March 2004, Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 35-37.

Wiberg, M. (2004) FolkMusic: A mobile peer-to-peer entertainment system, In proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS37. Hawaii, USA.

Fällman, D., Lund, A., & Wiberg, M. (2004) ScrollPad: Tangible scrolling with mobile devices, In proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS37. Hawaii, USA.

Wiberg, M. (2001) In between Mobile Meetings: Exploring seamless ongoing interaction support for mobile CSCW, PhD-thesis, Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.Download pdf

Wiberg, M. (2001) Using wireless inter-PANs to enable seamless ongoing interaction across mobile meetings and dispersed settings, IEEE Network: Special Issue on WPANs (Wireless Personal Area Networks). September/Oktober 2001. 

Wiberg M (2001) RoamWare: An integrated architecture for seamless interaction in between mobile meetings. Proceedings of the 2001 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work. ACM Press, Boulder, Colorado, pp 288-297.

Wiberg, M. (2001) RoamWare: Towards Seamless Ongoing Interaction across Mobile Meetings and Dispersed Settings by Use of Internet Technology and Multiple Mobile Devices, WebNet Journal: Internet technoogies, Applications & Issues, July-September 2001, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 20-25.
(Outstanding paper award).