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Figure 5. Scenarios were illustrated as comic strips. Examples from the left: Golf club equipped with
motion sensors, embedded tags in clothes and smart plaster to monitor glucose level.
In the MIMOSA project user acceptance of
forthcoming applications was studied to identify
the implications of user acceptance requirements
for platform design. The focus was put on four
representative consumer application fields where
user mobility can be combined with measurements
of the user and his/her environment: sports, fit-
ness, health care and housing. In addition, general
everyday applications were studied.
Right at the beginning of the project we or-
ganized scenario workshops where the project
partners together defined different usage scenarios
for the selected application fields. On the one hand
the scenarios illustrated the ideas of the partici-
pating technology developer companies of how
the new technologies would work. On the other
hand the scenarios described how the participating
companies representing the selected application
fields saw those possibilities being utilized in
their forthcoming products. Finally, five to six
representative scenarios for each application field
were selected and they were described as written
stories with comic-strip illustrations (Figure 5).
The scenarios were evaluated in focus groups,
2-3 groups of 4-7 people for each application
field (Figure 6).
Figure 6. Health care professionals and ordinary users assessing the health care scenarios in focus groups.
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