Call for letters of interest for collaborative research with the HAPTIMAP project
The HAPTIMAP ('Haptic, audio and visual interfaces for maps and location-based services') project has issued a call for a new commercial partner. The project receives financial support from the European Commission in the Seventh Framework Programme, under the Cooperation Programme ICT - Information and Communication Technologies. The subject of this call is to find an additional commercial partner that can develop a map or location-based service that uses haptic, audio and/or visual information for user interaction. This service will illustrate the use of the HAPTIMAP toolkit and important HAPTIMAP concepts. An acceptable alternative would be for the new partner to use HAPTIMAP concepts and the toolkit to enhance a pre-existing service. To ensure good communication between the toolkit developers and the location-based service developers, the project expects a limited part of the new partner's effort to be used for participating in the toolkit development. The developed location-based service is expected to be an important channel for commercial exploitation in the project. The new partner will also be expected to support (or participate) in the planned training and demonstration of the developed service.To see the full details of the call, please consult: http://www.haptimap.org/competitive-call.html