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MUMMY - The System
4. Main Benefits
The MUMMY approach encompasses several improvements in mobile work; the most important one, however, relates to the documentation of the insights in mobile situations, especially when many new info items must be registered. Nowadays most mobile workers document their insights in terms of paper-based notes and sketches and enter them into their databases when they are back in office. MUMMY implemented to utilize the new multimedia facilities in PDAs to record the findings in terms of photos, hand-drawn sketches, speech notes, and simplified input forms and to add them as annotations to existing basis multimedia documents, such as videos with predefined hotspots, SVG drawings, maps, and site plans. Thereby, the MUMMY system recognises and automatically correlates new recordings them with descriptive information from users context, such as time, locations, people, tasks, and projects in order to bring structure into the loose bunch of unstructured files coming up this way.
As a result, users are relieved by simple and quick input possibilities that are very similar to their way of working today, time is saved due to the avoidance of later data entry, and timeliness and accuracy of data in repositories is increased.
MUMMY enables mobile workers to never loose track and coherence of their "mobile knowledge", which means the MUMMY-system meets the needs of mobile workers to capture and access knowledge coherently by an "information-in-context" approach using multimedia annotation and location / task-related assistance. Regarding the main functionalities of the MUMMY system the MUMMY core-characteristics are:
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MUMMY stores and presents information items always with their relation to the creation context (e.g. location, time, person etc.) and the retrieval context (e.g. the related project, or the related form/report to which media elements, such as photos, belong). Therefore information stays in its context and coherent, in best case no “unconnected data” turns up. This supports context-related (or even pro-active) information retrieval on-site or in processing phases, and well-aimed mobile information capturing in a comfortable way, where no information bits will be “lost in cyberspace” afterwards. This approach of contextually interrelated information-processing over the complete data life cycle is new and will enhance in particular any kind of mobile information and knowledge work. |
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Mummy builds a semantic layer on top of existing applications and files. Therefore, users familiar with the Pocket PC platform don't have to learn many new applications but can immediately start using Mummy. Also existing domain-specific applications can be easily integrated, when they store information in files. |
MUMMY – additional service modules
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Based upon and integrated with the above approaches the collaborative video-annotation provides a complete set of functions to use and author interactive video sequences and to collaboratively communicate with or about these. |
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Based upon and integrated with the above approaches the Real-time SVG-annotation sharing enables collaborative annotation of mainly 2D (SVG) plans on pocket-sized devices. |
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Grenoble supports pre- and post-processing of information needed or collected on-site. In particular it provides a report-generator, which is able to export mobile collected inspection results into the customers report templates. |
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Based upon above approaches and system-integrateable the problem tracking facilitates the day-to-day operational tasks of Field Technicians in the technical service (TS) domain. |