Objective U-CREATE is initiated by Alterface, Imagination and ion2s, three SMEs which are primarily active in the field of edutainment, i.e. the joining of education and entertainment (customers are museums, cultural institutions, entertainment parks) They share a common and important problem: efficient content creation. Be it interactive setups, Mixed Reality experiences, location-based services, all these technologies are worthless without content: content is always to be tackled or delivered at the same time as technology. However, content creation is a long process that can turn to nightmare when implementing large-scale projects. The solution is two words: authoring tool. A powerful, graphical, beyond the state-of-the-art authoring tool is needed that allows one to create elaborated contents in a fast and easy way. No such tool exists to date due to the highly innovative products commercialised by the SMEs. Such a tool will be created by the project. The authoring tool will increase competitiveness, because it significantly shortens production time (50% reduction of integration time) and effort (creation process affordable to non-specialists) for content development. It will also enable other people to create contents for the intended systems: SMEs can then sell more software while subcontracting or licensing the content production. It will also strengthen the European position in an authoring market dominated by US companies. SMEs alone cannot afford such a task, in terms of expertise but also in terms of resources. This project gathers the highly-specialized expertise from ZGDV, TUW and DIST which allows for the delivery of a prototype authoring tool. HadroNet will be the end-user serving the consortium and helping it to gather a larger community of end-users, in order to assess requirements, validate results and construct the basis of a commercial distribution system. Doing so, the project will set the first basis of a longer-term collaboration amongst all partners. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationsvirtual reality Programme(s) FP6-SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SME-1 - Co-operative Research (all areas of science and technology) Call for proposal FP6-2003-SME-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator ALTERFACE SA Address Avenue alexander fleming 10 Louvain-la-neuve Belgium See on map Links Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all HADRONET SZAMITASTECHNIKAI KERESKEDELMI ES SZOLGALTATO KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG Hungary EU contribution € 0,00 Address Tülök u. 29 Budapest See on map Links Website Opens in new window IMAGINATION COMPUTER SERVICES GESMBH Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Donau-city-strasse 1/og 3 Wien See on map Links Website Opens in new window SEBASTIAN SAUER Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Bleichstrasse 26 Darmstadt See on map Links Website Opens in new window TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Karlsplatz 13 Wien See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via balbi 5 Genova See on map ZENTRUM FUER GRAPHISCHE DATENVERARBEITUNG E.V. Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Fraunhoferstrasse 5 Darmstadt See on map
