Projects
EU Funded (14)
FP7-ICT-2011.9.12
Goals: The FOCAS project is a coordination action which aims to integrate, coordinate and help increase visibility to research carried out in the FOCAS FET Proactive Initiative and in research fields related to collective adaptive systems. FOCAS will also provide a positive interface between scientists and the science-aware public, showing how research into collective adaptive systems can impact on society.
Status: started 1st March 2013
Funding: EU FP7 ICT-2011.9.12
Duration: 2013 - 2016
FP7 ICT, FET Flagship Initiative: FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator
Goals: The FuturICT flagship proposal intends to unify hundreds of the best scientists in Europe in a 10 year 1 billion EUR program to explore social life on earth and everything it relates to. The FuturICT flagship proposal will produce historic breakthroughs and provide powerful new ways to manage challenges that make the modern world so difficult to predict, including the financial crisis.
Status: proposal in preparation
Funding: EU FP7 ICT, FET Flagship Pilot
Duration: 2011 - 2012
FP7 ICT Call-5, FET proactive, Goal 8.5: Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems
Goals: The objective of SAPERE is the development of a highly-innovative theoretical and practical framework for the decentralized deployment and execution of self-aware and adaptive services for future and emerging pervasive network scenarios. The framework will be grounded on a foundational re-thinking of current service models and of associated infrastructures and algorithms. In particular, getting inspiration from natural ecosystems, the project will demonstrate and experiment the possibility of modelling and deploying services as autonomous individuals in an ecosystem of other services, data sources, and pervasive devices, and of enforcing self-awareness and autonomic behaviours as inherent properties of the ecosystem, rather than as peculiar characteristics of its individuals only.
Status: started October 1st, 2010
Funding: EU FP7 ICT Call-5, FET proactive
Duration: 2010 - 2013
FP7 ICT Call-5, FET proactive, Goal 8.4: Human Computer Confluence
Goals: HCC, Human-Computer Confluence, is an ambitious research program studying how the emerging symbiotic relation between humans and computing devices can enable radically new forms of sensing, perception, interaction, and understanding. HCC is set to produce profound technological and social impact. It is also a deeply interdisciplinary field, spanning a wide range of areas: from the cognitive sciences to computer science, human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence; from traditional sensor and systems engineering to the development of novel means to interact with any type of information and the exploration of new synthetic senses.
Status: started October 1st, 2010
Funding: EU FP7 ICT Call-5, FET proactive
Duration: 2010 - 2013
FP7 ICT Call-3, FET proactive / Goal 8.4: Science of complex systems for socially intelligent ICT
Goals: There are a number of projects that acknowledge the tight entanglement between social and technical systems. SOCIONICAL differs from these project in that it jointly deals with complex systems at three levels: (i) Interacting social entities; (ii) Interacting technical entities; (iii) Interacting socio-technical entities.
It is embedded in AmI (Ambient Intelligence) environments, and it aims at providing a user feedback-loop to control global system behavior, and it relies on realistic multimodal data sources.
Partners: University of Passau (Coordinator), Beacon Tech Ltd., London School of Economics, ETH Zurich, University of Amsterdam, AGH UST, University of Würzburg, Fraunhofer FIT, SICE, SmartCare Srl, TU München, University of Halle-Wittenberg, CPD
Status: started February 1st, 2009
Funding: EU FP7 ICT Call-3, FET proactive
Duration: 2009 - 2013
FP7-ICT-2007-C, FET open
Goals: The project aims at developing mobile systems to recognize human activity with dynamically varying sensor setups. We refer to such systems as opportunistic, since they take advantage of sensing modalities that just happen to be available, rather than forcing to deploy specific, application dependent sensor systems.
Partners: ETH Zurich, UoPassau, IDIAP
Status: started February 1st, 2009
Funding: EU FP7 ICT, FET open
Duration: 2009 - 2012
FP7 ICT Call-2, FET proactive / Goal 8.3: Pervasive Adaptation
Goals: The goal of PANORAMA is to bring together the wide range of researchers in the Pervasive Adaptation field to build a new community of researchers in the Pervasive Adaptation field who can work together on common goals, so ensuring that the research carried out by members of that community is integrated, coordinated and informed.
Partners: Napier University, Groupe Des Ecoles Des Telecommunications, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"
Status: started February 1st, 2008
Funding: EU FP7 ICT Call-2, FET proactive
Duration: 2007 - 2011
Identify Information-and-Communications-Technology-related research trends and strategic areas that require support.
Key areas: Networked Societies of Artefacts, Evolveable Systems, Human Computer Confluence
Funding: EU FP 6, IST-FET
Duration: 2004 - 2006
InterLink aims at advancing Europe's knowledge in a number of critical S&T areas, at promoting European solutions and knowledge world-wide and at influencing the way research in these areas would evolve internationally.
Homepage: interlink.ics.forth.gr
Funding: EU FP 6
Duration: 2006 - 2009
Funding: to be submitted as a Network of Excellence in FP6, (decision on funding expected in 2004)
Duration: 2004 - 2005
Funding: EU FP6 IST
Duration: 2003 - 2003
The Network of Excellence (NoE) CRUISE intends to be a focal point in the planning and coordination of research on communication and application aspects of wireless sensor networking in Europe.
Homepage: www.ist-cruise.eu
Funding: EU FP 6, IST
Duration: 2006 - 2007
Funding: EU ESPRIT IV
Duration: 1998 - 2002
Funding: EU Tempus
Duration: 1998 - 1999
National Funded (29)
Funding: FFG, IKT der Zukunft - Leitprojekt IoT 2016
Duration: 2017 - 2020
Funding: FFG, Ausschreibung: Talente regional 2016
Duration: 2017 - 2019
Pro²Future ist ein COMET-Zentrum nach dem österreichischen Kompetenzzentren-Förderprogramm COMET (Competence Centres for Excellent Technologies). Den operativen Betrieb nahm es 2017 auf.
Funding: FFG COMET, 4. Ausschreibung K1-Zentren
Duration: 2017 - 2021
EyeControl aims to create a whole new way of human-machine interaction in complex manufacturing settings, by introducing eye-gaze as a modality of implicit and explicit interaction with industrial machines and processes performed by them.
Funding: FFG, IKT der Zukunft - 4. Ausschreibung (2015)
Duration: 2016 - 2020
This project will create the foundational, design and operational principles of future, surgeon-friendly minimal invasive surgery operating room information technologies (MIS-IT), which –given the ever growing complexity in surgical workflows, as well as instrument and equipment settings– will have to build on human attention as a scarce resource.
Funding: FFG, Bridge 3. Frühphase (2015)
Duration: 2016 - 2019
Funding: FFG, IKT der Zukunft - 3. Ausschreibung (2014), Projekt 849976
Duration: 2015 - 2018
Goals: “Always-on, multitasking work environments are killing productivity, dampening creativity, and making us unhappy”.
Our society has evolved from suffering from information scarcity in the early 1990s to a society in which human attention
has become one of the rarest and at the same time most valuable resources. This project has the overall ambition to reduce
the information overload by initiating a general redesign of human computer interaction by making automatic information
systems adaptive to human perception resources. This implies a step forward in the evolution from “classic” AI and machine
learning approaches over pervasive computing, leveraging context and activity recognition, to a new abstraction layer,
which can be summarized as “Cognitive ICT”.
Such a proposition requires a broadly based commitment of relevant key players in the scientific community as well as in
the industry and in political policy makers. Only with this scientific and industrial mobilization, it will be possible to
raise the public and political awareness of the subject to the required level.
In summary, the goals of this solicitation action are:
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Unification of scientific approaches across interdisciplinary institutions
- Vision and Roadmapping: Identify Key Research Challenges
- Raising Awareness: Scientific and Industrial Mobilization
- Laying Ground for an Austrian Flagship Project
Homepage: www.raising-attention.org
Funding: FFG, bmvit
Duration: 2013 - 2014
Goals: High resolution, internet enabled, interactive display systems have become broadly deployed in public places, mostly for location specific announcement and commercial advertisement purposes - often referred to as SmartLight displays. 360Light attempts at combining cutting edge research in self-aware, adaptive and intelligent display systems, with high resolution 360° video capturing and streaming, and device free interaction principles and modalities. With a full integration of 360°, multi perspective, high resolution, high framerate video playback into standard settings of public display systems, 360Light will raise current SmartLight technology to radically new levels of sensual user experience.
Funding: FFG
Duration: 2013 - 2015
FFG Call: FIT-IT Embedded Systems & Semiconductors, 2nd Call
Goals: This project will investigate on potentials to reduce energy inefficiency by the development of methods and solutions based on implicit user interaction. Methodologically, it will attempt to exploit opportunistic sensor configurations to establish context information, in order to avoid standby losses of electronic equipment, machines and appliances. It will develop policies for an automatic (or implicit) switching of stand-by modes of such devices, based on the recognized or anticipated situation (rather then forcing users to explicitly switch among those modes). Clearly, such a solution is highly reliant to a reliable and robust recognition of user activities, and user situations (or contexts). Therefore, this project will also develop system architectures for energy managament, together with the methods and algorithms involved in context recognition and activity tracking.
Partners: Energie AG
Status: started June 1st, 2011
Funding: FFG FIT-IT Embedded Systems & Semiconductors
Duration: 2011 - 2014
FFG Call: Research Studios Austria
Goals: The objective is the development of a highly-innovative framework for the networked, decentralized operation of heterogeneous, long-lived and adaptive DISPLAY services.
Partners: EPAMEDIA, CocaCola Österreich, Enterprise Sports Promotion, Geodan Salzburg, OÖ. Theater und Orchester GmbH
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Status: started December 1st, 2008
Funding: FFG Call: Research Studios Austria
Duration: 2008 - 2011
FFG Call: Neue Energien 2020 (klima+energie fonds)
Goals: The PowerSaver research project proposes a power management solution based on sensors for activity and context recognition, in order to avoid standby losses of electronic equipment, machines and appliances. It builds on an automatic (or implicit) switching of stand-by modes of these devices, based on the recognized or anticipated situation (rather then forcing users to explicitly switch among those modes).
Partners: Energie AG
Status: started December 1st, 2008
Funding: FFG Call: Neue Energien 2020
Duration: 2008 - 2011
Funding: bm:vit FIT-IT Embedded Systems
Duration: 2005 - 2008
Funding: BMBWK
Duration: 2002 - 2003
Funding: BMBWK, Neue Medien in der Lehre
Duration: 2002 - 2004
Funding: eLearning Offensive JKU
Duration: 2004 - 2005
Funding: BMVIT
Duration: 2001 - 2002
Funding: Industry
Duration: 2002 - 2003
Funding: BMWF/British Council Academic Research Collaboration
Duration: 2003 - 2003
Funding: Jubiläumsfondprojekt Nr. 5069, Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Duration: 2003 - 2003
Funding: Research Project BMWF GZ. 613.525/2-26/90, (Austrian Center for Parallel Computation) Initialförderung
Duration: 2003 - 2003
Funding: R&D project, public funding
Duration: 2003 - 2003
Funding: EU - Human Capital and Mobility
Duration: 2003 - 2003
Funding: Scientific-Technical Cooperation Austria–Italy
Duration: 2003 - 2003
Funding: FWF Research Grant No. S5303-PHY, (Austrian Center for Parallel Computation)
Duration: 2003 - 2003
Funding: BMWF
Duration: 2003 - 2003
Funding: Research Project BMWF GZ. 308.926/1-IV/3/93
Duration: 2003 - 2003
Funding: Research Project BMWF GZ. 308.926/1-IV/3/93
Duration: 2003 - 2003
Funding: British Council
Duration: 1998 - 1999
Development of supplementary teaching material
Funding: Research Project BMWF GZ. 52.979/1-6/86
Duration: 2003 - 2003
Industrial Funded (13)
Funding: Industrial Cooperation
Duration: 2011 - 2013
Funding: Industrial Cooperation
Duration: 2011 - still in progress
Funding: Industrial Cooperation
Duration: 2007 - still in progress
Funding: Industrial Cooperation
Duration: 2001 - 2007
Funding: Industrial Cooperation
Duration: 2006 - 2007
Duration: 2004 - 2004
Duration: 2003 - 2003
Funding: Industrial Cooperation, Adaptivity is a key issue when dealing with mobile devices and multimedia data.
Duration: 2001 - 2007
Duration: 2003 - 2005
Funding: Industrial Cooperation
Duration: 2001 - 2006
Funding: Industrial Cooperation
Duration: 2001 - 2002
Funding: Industry
Duration: 1999 - still in progress
Funding: Industrial Cooperation
Duration: 2000 - still in progress
Coordination Projects (5)
Funding: Upper Austrian Government
Duration: 2003 - still in progress
Funding: Government
Duration: 2000 - 2002
Funding: Industrial PartnersFunding: BMWV
Duration: 1998 - 1999
Funding: BMWV
Duration: 1997 - 1998
Funding: BMBWK, UMF 2002
Duration: 2002 - 2004