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Strengthening communications within the local community to facilitate sharing of everyday tasks and activities. This is the basic concept of MAYPOLE, a member of the European Union's i3 (Intelligent Information Interfaces) initiative. The multi-party project brings together designers, social scientists and technologists from IDEO Europe, Nokia Research, the University of Vienna, Helsinki University of Technology, and Meru Research, co-ordinated by the Netherlands Design Institute. Its broad goal is to develop concepts for intuitive information user interfaces that facilitate real time interactions among groups of people. Specifically, the focus is on the role technology can play in connecting children in a community with each other, and with the adults with whom they share activities.
MAYPOLE selected two pilot communities: a school in Vienna and a scouting organisation in Helsinki. The two test sites were chosen because they are examples of communities where children, parents, teachers and scout leaders have to communicate to be able to organise activities for the children.
Other considerations were to enhance social grooming, emotionally rich communication and foster real-time interaction among children and their networks of friends, parents and teachers.
Our initial goal was to understand needs and desires, map group activities and decision making, and discover communication channels of the people in our communities. Once these had been researched, work began on observing more closely how people actually interact with each.
The understanding gained was put into application scenarios, which were checked against the users for refinement. These led to a wide range of initial design concepts, later refined in four detailed concepts for extensive user evaluation. The result is a multi-dimensional story. At each stage, it was the human dimension of contact with real users that proved useful in developing our scenarios and concepts.
Project URL: http://www.maypole.org
OMEGA creates geoscientific application development tools and services to efficiently create a chain of interoperable applications dealing with database access to spatial data, able to efficiently support 3D sub surface modelling of the Earth in a distributed environment.
The solution developed is to create an add-on named OMEGA for the existing CAS.CADE application development framework of MATRA DATAVISION, originally designed for the CAD/CAM industry. This extension will consist primarily of the integration into the CAS.CADE generic development platform of the CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) standard by OMG (Object Management Group) for distributed computing, and STEP (Standard Exchange of Product data) and POSC (Petroleum Open Software Corporation) standards for distributed data technology. Furthermore, for Geoscience purposes, geometric modelling functionalities and resources to display and store 3D geoscience business objects will be developed and/or modified to meet geoscientists' needs in terms of 3D sub surface modelling of the Earth.
Results will meet the needs of application developers servicing the end-user industries such as Mining and Petroleum Exploration and Production (E&P) and other industrial sectors such as Environment and Civil Engineering. Apart from application developers, a secondary target for the CASCADE/OMEGA development platform is the in-house research services of the end users themselves to realise research prototypes.
Extending CAS.CADE with all its functionalities could increase the market potential of software developers by 200% and reduce development costs rather than software performance capabilities. It is expected that new distributed data management software products which will be more and more requested by the end user market can be easily realized with CAS.CADE/OMEGA application development framework.
Project URL : http://www.geomath.com
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