Economic location-based services, privacy and the relationship to identity

Mobile telephony and mobile internet are driving a new application paradigm: location-based services (LBS). Based on a person’s location and context, personalized applications can be deployed. Thus, internet-based systems will continuously collect and process the location in relationship to a personal context of an identified customer. One of the challenges in designing LBS infrastructures is the concurrent design for economic infrastructures and the preservation of privacy of the subjects whose location is tracked. This presentation will explain typical LBS scenarios, the resulting new privacy challenges and user requirements and raises economic questions about privacy-design. The topics will be connected to “mobile identity” to derive what particular identity management issues can be found in LBS

Affective Interaction Design at the End of the World

We are living in a time of ecological and humanitarian crisis that requires imminent action from the joint fields of HCI and interaction design today. This paper presents Affective Interaction Design as an emerging research agenda directly targeting endof-world challenges. To arrive at this, the paper proposes a re-thinking of affect in HCI and interaction design based on recent theoretical advances in cultural and critical theory, in particular emphasizing how a broadened understanding of affect is necessary to better address affectively charged and uncertain situations such as those connected to the end of the world. The paper sketches out how Affective Interaction Design combines conceptual guidelines, design methods, a situational ethics and new ways of assessing the value of affective interactions over time. Finally, the paperoutlines three end-of-world frames for engaging with concrete affective designexperiments – the end of nature, the end of culture and the end of the human – where digital and interactive technologies can being used on a micro-level to catalyze changes in affective attachments on a macro-level

How and why does the efficiency of regional innovation systems differ?

Literature suggests that location should matter for R&D activities. However, attempts to empirically detect differences in innovation activity between regions have so far been rather unsuccessful. Using a unique data set which contains comparable information about manufacturing enterprises in eleven European regions, a number of significant regional differences in the efficiency of innovation activities can be found. This variation is in correspondence with a center-periphery pattern indicating that agglomeration economies are conducive to R&D activities. The paper investigates whether the differences in efficiency of regional innovation systems can be explained by differences in R&D-cooperation behavior. -- In der Literatur finden sich vielfältige Hinweise darauf, dass von den Standort-bedingungen ein Einfluss auf Innovationsaktivitäten ausgeht. Allerdings haben entsprechenden empirische Untersuchungen bisher nur recht schwache Evidenz hierzu erbracht. Auf der Grundlage von Daten über Industriebetriebe in elf eu-ropäischen Regionen können eine ganze Reihe von signifikanten interregiona-len Unterschieden hinsichtlich der Effizienz von Innovationsaktivitäten identi-fiziert werden. Dass diese Unterschiede tendenziell einem Zentrum-Peripherie-Muster entsprechen deutet darauf hin, dass für FuE-Aktivitäten bestimmte Ag-glomerationsvorteile bestehen. In dem Aufsatz wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit die feststellbaren Unterschiede der Effizienz regionaler Innovations-systeme mit entsprechenden Unterschieden im Kooperationsverhalten erklärt werden können.Innovation,R&D productivity,R&D cooperation,regional innovation systems,knowledge production function,Innovation,FuE Produktivität,FuE Kooperation,Regionale Innovationssysteme,Wissensproduktionsfunktion