A Virtual Lab for ICT Experience Prototyping

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A Virtual Lab for ICT Experience Prototyping

• LUC EDM (B)
• Prof. dr. Karin Coninx
• Mieke Haesen

• EC/DC (NL)
• drs. Jan Bierhoff

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Contents

• Introduction
• Situation of concern
• Goals
• Location
• Consortium 5 partners
• Work packages
• Post-project phase

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Introduction

• ICT Experience Prototyping
• User-centered for/with users
• Multi-disciplinary
• Proposal
• Currently last negotiation phase
• Interreg financing
• Funds of the European Commission, intended for
  regional development

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Situation of concern

• Companies
• Usability not important, expensive
• Minimal knowledge about human factors engineering
• Region
• Axis Eindhoven(NL)-Leuven(B)collaborative
  technology development
• ISTAG (Information Society Technologies Advisory
  Group)necessity ? lab for experience
  prototyping

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Goals

• Sensibilisate for using ICT experience
  prototyping
• Setting up a virtual lab
• For enterprises
• Profiled and accessible
• Networking with existing actors using on hand
  facilities
• Long term goals
• Continuation after project execution
• Attract new companies in the region
• Enable organisations and governments to grow

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Location
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Consortium

• Euregion 5 provinces
• Limburg (B)
• Limburg (NL)
• Vlaams-Brabant (B)
• Noord-Brabant (NL)
• Antwerpen (B)

• 5 Partners
• EDM
• EC/DC
• Mediacentrum
• Fac. Tech. Management
• Company active in the media domain

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Partner 1 Expertise Centre for Digital Media (B)

• Research institute of Limburgs Universitair
  Centrum (LUC)
• Research in the following areas
• Computer Graphics, Computer Animation and Virtual
  Environments
• Multimedia and Internet Technology
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Profile Coordination, computer science, UCD
• Prof. dr. Karin Coninx

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Partner 1 Expertise Centre for Digital Media (B)

• Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI)
• Interaction between a human user and a
  computer-based system
• Sub-domains
• 2D Multi-device UI, Mobile/Embedded
• 3D and Virtual Environments
• Activity types
• Multi-modal Interaction Paradigms
• User-Centered Systems Development
• Usability

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Partner 1 Expertise Centre for Digital Media (B)

• Research institute of Limburgs Universitair
  Centrum (LUC)
• Research in the following areas
• Computer Graphics, Computer Animation and Virtual
  Environments
• Multimedia and Internet Technology
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Profile Coordination, computer science, UCD
• Prof. dr. Karin Coninx

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Partner 2 European Centre for Digital
Communication (NL)

• Joint initiative of Hogeschool Zuyd and
  Universiteit Maastricht
• Focuses on human interaction issues concerning
  ICT deployment
• Profile contributing to coordination, social
  science
• drs. Jan Bierhoff

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Partner 3 Mediacentrum (B)

• Research Institute of Katholieke Universiteit
  Leuven
• Activities
• Education programs Bachelor Master
  Post-academic
• Usability research
• Testlab
• Profile UI design, Usability, communication
  science
• Prof. dr. Dirk De Grooff

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Partner 4 Faculty Technology Management (NL)

• Research institute of the Technische Universiteit
  Eindhoven (TU/e)
• Concerned with the human interactive behaviour in
  the context of technological environments
• Profile UI design, technology management
• Prof. dr. Don Bouwhuis

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Partner 5 company active in the Media Domain (B)

• Representative of lab users
• Involved in fine-tuning the lab approach
• 1st pilot project
• Evaluation
• Channel to spread information about the project
  and the pilot projects
• Press
• Websites

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Work packages
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Work packages (2)

• WP 1 Orientation
• Networking and collaboration agreements
• To agree on methodologies and approach
• Planning
• WP 2 Sensibilisation
• Contacts with companies
• Spread results of pilot projects

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Work packages (3)

• WP 3 Pilot projects
• Prove the role of ICT Experience Prototyping
• Case studies
• Financial aspects
• for Experience prototypingno cost for company,
  but results are public to stakeholders
• for related developments (e.g. backend, network
  etc.)not subsidized, company cost or other RD
  project
• Formal agreement with companies (e.g. public
  results, non-disclosure, delineate the pilot)

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Work packages (4)

• WP 3 Pilot projects
• Diversity UCD, prototyping, testing,
• 5 pilot projects
• With 1 company or cluster in a domain

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Work packages (5)

• WP 3 Pilot projects example
• Company active in chemical domain
• Control rooms
• Switches
• Meters
• Important
• Safety
• Ergonomics
• Visual aspects
• Intuitive
• Involve future user

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Work packages (6)

• WP 4 Evaluation and exploitation
• Impact of the project
• Long-lasting laboratory ?
• European partnership ?
• WP 5 PR and project management
• During the entire project

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Post-project phase

• Several directions
• Commercial exploitation
• Network of several knowledge based institutes
• Across the borders
• Eindhoven(NL) Leuven(B) - Aken(D)
• European partnership

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Questions?

• Contacts karin.coninx_at_luc.ac.be
• mieke.haesen_at_luc.ac.be
• jan.bierhoff_at_ecdc.info

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