Evaluation of Existing Methods for Freeband service Development

Synopsis: This report contains a state of the art overview of existing design methods and an analysis of their suitability for the development of Freeband services. I Preface The AMUSE project is part of the Freeband Communication programme, which aims at the generation of public knowledge in advanced telecommunication (technology and applications). Freeband is based on the vision of 4G networks and services. It specifically aims at establishing, maintaining and reinforcing the Dutch knowledge position at the international forefront of scientific and technological developments, addressing the most urgent needs for research and novel applications in the present unfolding of new technology. Freeband comprises more than 25 organisations, including all-important technology providers and many representative end-user organisations. The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs is co-funding this programme as part of the BSIK plan. The vision for Freeband for 2010 is to consider communication and information transfer from the perspective of the user, not the provider. The communication infrastructure will become transparent and abundant in all its layers. Freeband addresses the knowledge chain in communication in the direction of the new ubiquitous communication paradigm. Based on this vision key research questions take place in three main themes: • Society, Users and Applications: what are the new possibilities in different sectors for ubiquitous communication and ambient intelligence, what do they presuppose as knowledge and how can they be realised? • Networking, Service Provisioning and Generic User Interaction: the telecommunication infrastructure viewed from the user's perspective. • Enabling Technologies: no new services emerge without adequate technology; conversely, it is the technology that drives the new paradigms!