MAGNET is an integrated project supported within the Sixth Framework Programme of the EU Commission. The project acronym stands for "My Personal Adaptive Global NET", and as the name indicates the project has a profound emphasis on user-centricity, personalization and personal networking. The objective of this user-centric approach is to improve the quality of life for the end-user by introducing new technologies more adapted to the user. MAGNET research focuses on network environments and networked services to become smarter, more responsive, and more accommodating to the needs of the individual without jeopardizing privacy and security. The MAGNET project has a total cost of 18.14 million Euro. The EU Commission has granted 10 million Euro to the project and the remaining 8.14 million comes from the 37 partners.   The SMC division (Institute of Electronic Systems) addresses research within user centered perspectives of the MAGNET project. User centricity and usability are critical in successfully defining general PN service architectures and their concrete instantiations into particular end user services. User centered analysis, design and testing methodologies are defined and applied to a selection of identified potential PN services (e.g. the diabetes service mentioned below) in order to derive user requirements, functional requirements and their translation into technical system requirements which help steer progression of other MAGNET research activities.   Examples of user requirement areas of particular interest are: Service variety, functionality and accessibility, price, personalization, privacy, security, HCI (via multiple modalities) with content/application adaptation, interoperability and PQoS (Perceived Quality of Service). In order to collect the requirements, representative user groups are established, analyzed and characterized; some of the users participate in workshops, laboratory and field tests of service prototypes which provide material to detailed studies of the user requirements and their implications.   The Medical Informatics Group (Department of Health Science and Technology) has a long history of work within IT systems in diabetes. This work is continued in MAGNET with the design of a personal network (PN) based health care service for diabetics.