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Together anywhere, together anytime

Start date:2008-02-01

End date:2012-01-31

Project Acronym:TA2

Project status:Completed

Coordinator

Organization name:EURESCOM - EUROPEAN INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND STRATEGIC STUDIES IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS GMBH
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Cay-friedrich PALM (Mr)	ADMINISTRATION AND ACCOUNTING Postfach 69123 WIEBLINGER WEG 19/4 0 HEIDELBERG DEUTSCHLAND Region:BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG KARLSRUHE Heidelberg, Stadtkreis
Tel:+49-6221989152
Fax:+49-6221989209
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:

Description

Objective: How can technology help to nurture family-to-family relationships? This is the question asked by the collaborative project "Together Anywhere, Together Anytime" (TA2).

For many people, families form the key social unit. Many of our enduring experiences, holidays, celebrations and moments of fun and laughter are framed as family events. This is something that current technology does not address well: modern media and communications serve individuals best, with phones, computers and electronic games devices tending to be individually owned and providing individual experiences. TA2 seeks to redress this imbalance, by exploring how technology can support group-to-group communication.

Family letters are often written from one family to another; family games are played between families. Memories in the form of videos and photographs are often shared within families. TA2 wants to enhance and support these processes; enabling people to share their stories, pass digital photos and videos around, add comments to them, and to pass them back. TA2 wants to build systems that allow people to play games with each other, seeing and hearing each other as they laugh with, and at, each other, as they struggle with games like Ludo, Labyrinth or Pictionary. And TA2 also wants to find ways in which modern sensors and IT equipment can support the family to gain better awareness of each others activity, whilst maintaining each individual's right to privacy.

TA2 media and communication experiences will be characterised by their naturalness; clear relaxed voice communication and intelligently edited video. Through the TA2 system, stories are automatically generated from home-related content, the personal home video or from the antics of a lively game. TA2 will run for 4 years and finish in January 2012.

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Project Details

Start date:2008-02-01

End date:2012-01-31

Duration:48 months

Project Reference:214793

Project cost:18168377 EURO

Project Funding:12844184 EURO

Programme Acronym: FP7-ICT

Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme

Subprogramme Area:Networked media

Contract type:Collaborative project (generic)

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Subject index:Information Processing, Information Systems, Electronics, Microelectronics, Telecommunications, Information, Media
 

Other participants

Organization name:JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Werner HAAS (DI)	INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT STEYRERGASSE 17 8010 GRAZ ÖSTERREICH Region:SÜDÖSTERREICH STEIERMARK Graz
Tel:+43-3168761145
Fax:+43-3168761191
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:Research,Other
Organization name:NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH - TNO
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Peter VAN ALPHEN (Dr)	TNO INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY 2628 VK SCHOEMAKERSTRAAT 97 DELFT NEDERLAND Region:WEST-NEDERLAND ZUID-HOLLAND Delft en Westland
Tel:+31-15-2857279
Fax:+31-15-2857333
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:PHILIPS CONSUMER ELECTRONICS BV
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Patrick KEUR (Mr)	F&A EUROPEAN PROJECTS 5616 LW GLASLAAN 2 EINDHOVEN NEDERLAND Region:ZUID-NEDERLAND NOORD-BRABANT Zuidoost-Noord-Brabant
Tel:+31-402740361
Fax:
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:STICHTING CENTRUM VOOR WISKUNDE EN INFORMATICA
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Margriet BROUWER (Ms.)	DEPT PROJECTS, FINANCE AND CONTROL KRUISLAAN 413 1098 SJ AMSTERDAM NEDERLAND Region:WEST-NEDERLAND NOORD-HOLLAND Groot-Amsterdam
Tel:+31-205924253
Fax:
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Walter KRAUSE (Mr)	Postfach 80686 HANSASTRASSE 27C MUENCHEN DEUTSCHLAND Region:BAYERN OBERBAYERN München, Kreisfreie Stadt
Tel:+49-891-2052713
Fax:+49-891-2057534
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:ALCATEL-LUCENT BELL NV
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Jos VAN SAS (Dr)	CTO PO Box 2018 COPERNICUSLAAN 50 ANTWERPEN BELGIQUE-BELGIË Region:VLAAMS GEWEST ANTWERPEN Antwerpen (Arrondissement)
Tel:+32-32408826
Fax:
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:RAVENSBURGER SPIELEVERLAG GMBH
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Michael TIESLER (MR.)	MARKETING AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT Postfach 88188 ROBERT-BOSCH-STRASSE 1 RAVENSBURG DEUTSCHLAND Region:BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG TÜBINGEN Ravensburg
Tel:+49-751861073
Fax:+49-751861434
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:LIMBIC ENTERTAINMENT GMBH
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Stephan WINTER (Mr)	LIMBIC ENTERTAINMENT GMBH, HEINRICH-HERTZ-STRASSE 21, 63225 Postfach 63225 HEINRICH-HERTZ-STRASSE 21 LANGEN DEUTSCHLAND Region:NIEDERSACHSEN LÜNEBURG Cuxhaven
Tel:+49-6103-960357
Fax:+49-6103-960358
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY*
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Douglas WILLIAMS (Dr)	RESEARCH AND VENTURING EC1A 7AJ 81 NEWGATE STREET LONDON UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH EAST (UK) GREATER LONDON
Tel:+44-7917024955
Fax:+44-1473644244
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:IDIAP (FONDATION DE L'INSTITUT DALLE MOLLE D'INTELLIGENCE ARTIFICIELLE PERCEPTIVE)
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Sandra MICHELOUD (Mrs)	IDIAP PO Box 1920 CENTRE DU PARC, AVENUE DES PRES-BEUDIN 20 MARTIGNY SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA Region:
Tel:+41-277217745
Fax:+41-277217712
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:GOLDSMITHS' COLLEGE
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Lakshmi SRI MURUGAN (Mrs)	FINANCE DEPARTMENT LEWISHAM WAY SE14 6NW LONDON UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH EAST (UK) GREATER LONDON
Tel:+44-2079197925
Fax:+44-2079197258
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:THE INTERACTIVE INSTITUTE II AKTIEBOLAG
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Staffan TRUVÉ (Mr)	CENTRAL MANAGEMENT PO Box 16426 ISAFJORDSGATAN 22, PLAN 6 KISTA SVERIGE Region:SVERIGE STOCKHOLM
Tel:+46-705933885
Fax:+46-875172
E-mail:Contact
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