FutureSelf: Emerging digitized life patterns and a personal future simulation system

Koponen, Jarno M.

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2010.08.020

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“…Personal futures become approachable and accessible when individuals store and share their life patterns and future-oriented thinking (intentions, hopes, fears, wishes, goals) in various ways and forms in digital environments. In this sense, the center of the future gravity becomes visible and detectable through our physical and non-physical multilinear existence [Kop10]. On the other hand, different media environments and interaction methods create social spaces where one can observe the activity of others, taking place both in physical and non-physical worlds.…”

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“…Although this term can have a myriad of definitions, in here, it is considered as an extrapolation of an individual's potential futures. Based on an interactive analysis process, a carefully crafted system using artificial intelligence, data mining processes and behavior adaptive features can generate contextualized interactive personal future simulations in the form of interconnected micro-future scenarios, containing, alternative future paths and recommendations based on an individual's personal circumstances and environment [Kop10].…”

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Key Enablers for User-Centric Advertising Across Next Generation Networks

Simoes¹

2012

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Telecommunication and Internet services are constantly subject to changes, seeking the customer's full satisfaction. Enriching these services with innovative approaches such as contextaware, social, mobile, adaptable and interactive mechanisms, enables users to experience a variety of personalized services seamlessly across different platforms and technologies. In this sense, advertising is no exception, especially if we consider that it will become the business enabler for next generation services. Nevertheless, currently there is no cross-domain solution capable of delivering real-time advertising across heterogeneous environments or domains, and at the same time, addresses users needs, desires and intentions. This happens because most of the products available today are only used within isolated environments / silos. Therefore, managing advertising campaigns across different verticals is still very complex.However, leveraging on the advances provided by Next Generation Networks (NGNs), together with the design principles inherent to Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) and capabilities offered by Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs), this scenario is about to change.Based on key conceptual entities called enablers, this work aims to change the current scenario. Enablers are software components, which are designed to address specific needs or requirements, but are generic enough to be reused outside a single domain (through well-defined interfaces).More concretely, this thesis introduces three distinct but complementary enablers. The Human Enabler (HE) provides a real-time context brokerage system capable of securely managing different types of user related data in a standardized way. The Reasoning Enabler (RE) is the result of a well-defined methodology that enables new knowledge to be reasoned, based on previously stored data, by aggregating, correlating and inferring new information about people and their contexts. Lastly, the Session Management Enabler (SME) is responsible for abstracting the communication layers. It provides a context-aware multimedia delivery system capable of personalizing and adapting multimedia content according to a set of user and system pre-defined context data or rules, respectively. Altogether, they form the Converged User-Centric Advertising System (CUCAS) and introduce new features that address the needs of both users and advertisers.The contribution of this research is fourfold: first, it analyzes and compares existing technologies and solutions from Information Technology (IT), telecommunications and advertising worlds. Then, based on the problems identified, a set of requirements is defined, an architecture is proposed and realized into a set of complementary enablers (CUCAS). The third point relates to the validation and evaluation of the developed prototype, which provides a better understanding of the current challenges around next generation advertising systems. Finally, based on the technological innovations, it promotes alternative business models that can change the way ...

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Key Enablers for User-Centric Advertising Across Next Generation Networks

Simoes¹

2012

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“…In the futures community, Charlesworth (2010) has explored the future of self‐knowledge and personal futures. Koponen (2009, 2010) has described the architecture of a “personal future simulation system.” Wheelwright (2003, 2005, 2009, 2010) has advocated applying scenario planning and other traditional forecasting techniques to individuals. There is also work on personal futures outside the futures world.…”

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Using Futures 2.0 to manage intractable futures: the case of weight loss

Pang¹

2011

Foresight

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PurposeFuturists have tended to take little interest in the hard work of implementing changes necessary to reach particular futures. This paper aims to argue that the field should pay more attention to these issues, and to use the challenge of weight loss to illustrate how tools can be developed to help both individuals and organizations deal with futures. It also aims to argue for the importance of mindfulness in managing long‐term futures challenges.Design/methodology/approachThe paper describes how the author applied concepts outlined in Futures 2.0 to his own program of weight loss, and lost 50 pounds (22.7 kilograms).FindingsThe paper shows how futurists could use concepts from behavioral economics and design in personal futures and futures work more generally. It also suggests that mindfulness – a concept borrowed from Buddhism and other contemplative practices – can give perspective necessary see the long‐term consequences of decisions they face in the present, and the self‐discipline necessary to make good choices.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper argues that futurists should not just focus on helping clients see unexpected trends or wild cards, or thinking about the future in new ways, or reframing their underlying strategic assumptions. Complex, intractable futures subvert the best efforts of rational actors; clients are most interested in getting help on the problems they are least likely to solve.Practical implicationsMore value for clients can be delivered by helping them understand common roadblocks and designing the means to reach long‐term future goals.Social implicationsFor a profession accustomed to thinking about big issues and megatrends like nanotechnology and global warming, losing weight may seem trivial and beneath its interest. But by any objective measure, in much of the developed world obesity is a substantial public health problem: it affects the lives of tens of millions of people, increases chronic diseases like hypertension and diabetes, and costs governments hundreds of billions of dollars. More generally, weight loss is a microcosm of the kinds of problems that can only be managed through the collective action of large numbers of people.Originality/valueThe paper is a contribution to the literature on personal futures, and to the ongoing discussion of the scope and methods of futures.

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