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The next wave of smartphone innovation: Student essays
‘The next wave of smartphone innovation: Issues and opportunities with smartphone technologies’ was the overall theme for Symbian’s first student essay contest. During the months of summer and early autumn 2008, students worldwide worked on essays addressing aspects of one or more of the following areas:
- device evolution / revolution through 2012-2015
- improved development and delivery methodologies for smartphone software
- success factors for mobile applications and mobile operating systems
- possible breakthrough applications and markets for smartphones
- possible breakthrough smartphone technology improvements
- improved collaboration methods between universities and Symbian.
Essays received were evaluated by Symbian judges for their degree of relevance, insight, clarity, readability, originality, evidence provided, and technical expertise. The following material consists of extracts and summaries from the prize-winning essays. Congratulations to the winners (listed in alphabetical order of surname). Some extracts have been lightly edited for the purposes of this publication:
- The hardware tech of smartphones, by Benoît Delville, Ecole Centrale de Lille, France.
- New interaction concepts in mobile games, by Alexander Erifiu, University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria.
- Optical translator: Word spotting and tracking on smartphones by Andreas Jakl, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.
- Smartphones in home automation, by Florian Lettner, University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria.
- Improved development and delivery methodologies, by Pankaj Nathani, Bhavnagar University, Gujarat, India.
- Exploiting social and mobile ad hoc networking to achieve ubiquitous connectivity, by Milen Nikolov, The College at Brockport, State University of New York, Brockport, USA.
- The next waves of smartphone innovation, by Aleksandra Reiss, Petrozavodsk State University, Russia.
- Situation aware maintenance mate, by Sudeep Sundaram, University of Bristol, UK.
- Opportunities with smartphone technologies for the base of the pyramid, by Iftekhar Ul Karim, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- The smartphone of the future: A powerhouse or a mere terminal?, by Alejandro Vicente-Grabovetsky, University of Cambridge, UK.
Each of these authors receives a prize of £1000. Collectively, the essays written by these authors highlight a rich set of potential opportunities for smartphone technologies, products and processes – opportunities that will benefit from ongoing research.
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