Interaction and context based technologies for collaborative teams

Objective

Knowledge Workers are increasingly involved in new kinds of organizational structures and work interaction patterns that require highly dynamic forms of collaboration, ranging from Nimble (short-lived) to Virtual and Mobile/Nomadic Teams. Teams morph from one kind of organizational structure to another. In most cases, workers engage in many such teams simultaneously and require support from adequate software services.

To meet the requirements of dynamic, multiform team working, current Internet-based Collaboration Working Environments must evolve towards large-scale, loosely-coupled, trusted service-oriented systems, with increased emphasis on P2P capabilities.

inContext will develop a novel scientific approach focused on a new blend of human collaboration and service-oriented systems that explores two basic research strands: efficient and effective support for human interactions and collaboration in various teams through dynamically aggregated software services; use of human-to-human or human-to-service interactions in applying intelligent mining and learning algorithms that can detect interaction patterns for pro-active service aggregation.

In addressing these issues, inContext will explore novel techniques and algorithms for mining human activities and providing context-relevant services, at the right time and granularity, to human interaction partners in those various team forms. To this end, relevance-based context representation models and autonomic service adaptation methods for context-coupling and enrichment will be developed.

Universities, corporate research centres and SMEs from six countries will work together to develop the research that will deliver the new technology. Two end-user partners - a worldwide manufacturing corporate and an association of public administration - will provide the reference environments for investigation and concrete validation of the outcomes of the project.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › software
• social sciences › political sciences › public administration

Programme(s)

• FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006).

Topic(s)

• IST-2005-2.5.9 - Collaborative Working Environments

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project

Coordinator

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN

Address

Karlsplatz 13
Wien
Austria

Links

Participants (8)

COMVERSE LTD

Israel

Address

Habarzel St. 29
69170 Tel Aviv

ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS ITALY S.P.A.

Italy

Address

Corso Lino Zanussi, 30
33080 Porcia (Pn)

EUROPAEISCHES MICROSOFT INNOVATIONS CENTER GMBH

Germany

Address

Ritterstrasse 23
52072 Aachen

HEWLETT PACKARD ITALIANA SRL

Italy

Address

Via G. Di Vittorio, 9
20063 Cernusco Sul Naviglio

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY

Ireland

Address

University Road -
Galway

Links

SOFTECO SISMAT S.P.A.

Italy

Address

Via De Marini 1
Genova

UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER

United Kingdom

Address

University Road
LE1 7RH Leicester

WEST MIDLANDS LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

United Kingdom

Address

Regional Partnership Centre - Albert House Quay Place Edw \*
B1 2RA Birmingham