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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. A Virtual Lab for ICT Experience Prototyping. Contents. Introduction Situation of concern Goals Location Consortium: 5 partners Work packages Post-project phase. Introduction.

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A Virtual Lab for ICT Experience Prototyping

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  1. LUC – EDM (B): Prof. dr. Karin Coninx Mieke Haesen EC/DC (NL): drs. Jan Bierhoff A Virtual Lab for ICT Experience Prototyping

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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Location

  7. 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 Consortium

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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 • …

  15. Work packages

  16. 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

  17. Work packages (3): • WP 3: Pilot projects • Prove the role of ICT Experience Prototyping • Case studies • Financial aspects: • for Experience prototyping:no cost for company, but results are public to stakeholders • for related developments (e.g. backend, network etc.):not subsidized, company cost or other R&D project • Formal agreement with companies (e.g. public results, non-disclosure, delineate the pilot)

  18. Work packages (4): • WP 3: Pilot projects • Diversity: UCD, prototyping, testing, … • 5 pilot projects • With 1 company or cluster in a domain

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. Post-project phase • Several directions: • Commercial exploitation • Network of several knowledge based institutes • Across the borders • Eindhoven(NL) – Leuven(B) - Aken(D) • European partnership

  22. Questions? Contacts: karin.coninx@luc.ac.be mieke.haesen@luc.ac.be jan.bierhoff@ecdc.info

  23. Appendix

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