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PROSELF: Semi-automated Self-Tracking Systems to Improve Personal Productivity

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Funding: SNF, grant 197242 · October 2022 – September 2025

PROSELF aims at investigating how emerging mobile and wearable technology can help provide an understanding of what makes people feel (and be) productive, and subsequently, to assist users with managing their productivity on a daily basis.

The project addresses concerns about workplace monitoring by focusing on knowledge workers’ empowerment rather than employer control. While existing “productivity apps” help monitor work activities, PROSELF advocates for systems that consider environmental, behavioral, and psychological factors in one’s feeling of (and indeed, observed) performance at work.

Objectives

Provide novel methods to enable self-monitoring at work in a semi-automated manner
Develop a sound modeling framework to identify proxies of specific performance indicators in users’ context data
Devise an adequate architecture to support the definition and execution of anticipatory decisions
Critically evaluate these approaches in-situ in a range of field studies

BASE: Behavioral Analytics for Smart Environments

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Funding: SNF · December 2020 – November 2023

Behavioral analytics is widely recognized as being key to providing new services and solutions in many application domains. The key to behavioral analytics is to be able to identify and track individual user interactions across time and space (e.g., Web server logs). However, currently there are no viable mechanisms for service providers to track user interactions in the real world without raising significant privacy concerns. BASE develops a new privacy-aware method for understanding human behavior through activity traces (e.g., GPS, smartphone app launches). The work is based on state-of-the-art federated machine-learning approaches.

From Sharing to Caring: Examining Socio-Technical Aspects of the Collaborative Economy

Wed, 01 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Funding: COST · March 2017 – March 2021

The terms “Sharing Economy” or “Collaborative Economy” have been commonly used in recent years to refer to a proliferation of initiatives, business models and forms of work. The main objective of this action is to develop a European network of actors (including scholars, practitioners, communities and policy makers) focusing on the development of collaborative economy models and platforms and on social and technological implications of the collaborative economy through a practice-focused approach.

Objectives

To develop deeper understanding of the collaborative economy phenomenon by studying sociotechnical systems and human practices across local, regional, national and international initiatives
To discuss and critique current discourse elements on the collaborative economy, proposing richer definitions and characterization
To formulate a European research agenda for socio-technical aspects, including technological platform design, legal, ethical and financial implications
To articulate a European research perspective aligned with EU values of social innovation and Europe 2020 strategy objectives for a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy

Uncovering Privacy Concerns for Public Display Personalisation

Fri, 01 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Funding: Google Faculty Grant · July 2016 – June 2017

The focus of this project is to understand personalization and privacy needs of actual public display users. The project will deploy a rich set of personalizable applications on an existing public display network deployed across a university campus, and distribute mobile phone applications (apps) to participants that let them personalize displays with various information feeds (e.g., bus schedules, Google+ feeds) automatically, i.e., as soon as the phone comes close to a display without manual intervention.

PersonAAL: Improving Quality of Life and Remote Care

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Funding: EU AAL Programme · October 2015 – September 2018

The PersonAAL project aims at extending the time older people can live in their home environment by increasing their autonomy and assisting them in carrying out activities of daily living by means of intelligent and intuitive web applications enabling users to receive personalized and context dependent assistance directly in their own homes with the goal to improve quality of life and decrease healthcare delivery cost.

The initiative also seeks to provide older adults with useful and usable means for better managing their lifestyle by increasing awareness and control through tailored information delivered intuitively.

SHARING21: Future Digital Sharing Interfaces

Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Funding: SNF · October 2014 – September 2018

The SHARING21 project aims at understanding current practices of sharing personal content, both explicitly (e.g., with friends and family) and implicitly (e.g., with service providers through the use of their services), and to uncover corresponding end-user concerns across a wide variety of content, in order to map the design space for future user interfaces that empower end-users to stay in control of their shared data in a world full of autonomous IoT devices.

CYBERPARKS: ICT and Public Spaces

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Funding: COST Action TU1306 · April 2014 – March 2018

The Action deals with opportunities and risks ICTs offer to the user, via the appreciation, design and usage of public spaces. It exploits the benefits of interweaving a green experience with digital engagement via sharing knowledge, experiences and ideas, and analysing public spaces.

RECALL: Enhanced Human Memory

Fri, 01 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Funding: EU FP7, FET Open, grant 612933 · Nov 2013 – Oct 2016

RECALL aims to re-think and re-define the notion of memory augmentation. The project will harness recent developments in capture technology and information retrieval and develop a new paradigm for memory augmentation technologies that are technically feasible, desired by users, and beneficial to society.

The initiative combines technological interventions with basic research questions in memory psychology to advance memory augmentation from niche clinical use to mainstream adoption, developing novel capture systems and feedback mechanisms through displays and mobile devices.

Objectives

Automate the acquisition of personal memories
Investigate how technological feedback can enhance memory retention and attenuation

APD: Attentive Public Displays

Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Funding: Hasler Foundation · May 2012 – Apr 2016

The goal of the project is to create a system of attentive displays deployed in a crowded place that are able to grasp the situational context of its viewers and use this information to adapt their behavior.

The system employs 3D sensors for depth imaging and computer vision algorithms to infer crowd behavioral patterns, then adapts display behavior accordingly.

SAPIENT: Supporting Fundamental Rights, Privacy and Ethics in Surveillance Technologies

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Funding: EU FP7, SEC · Mar 2011 – Jun 2014

SAPIENT is a 40-month Collaborative Project which aims to specify how and when smart surveillance should be used (or not) and its characteristics to be effective and scalable to rapidly adapt to changing situations.

The project will provide the Commission, data protection authorities and other stakeholders with a set of criteria for data protection and integrity that could be used to verify that surveillance systems and the sharing of information respect the privacy of citizens.

Objectives

Establish guidelines for smart surveillance deployment
Create criteria for data protection and integrity verification in surveillance systems
Ensure privacy respect in information-sharing practices

PD-NET: Towards Future Pervasive Display Networks

Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Funding: EU FP7, FET Open · May 2010 – Jun 2013

The PD-NET project aims to lay the scientific foundations for a new form of communications medium with the same potential impact on society as radio, television and the Internet.

The initiative seeks to investigate scientific challenges and emerging technologies necessary for establishing extensive networks of pervasive public displays with integrated sensors.

PALS: Privacy-Aware Location Sharing

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Funding: SNF · Apr 2010 – Aug 2013

Many consumers today willingly give up their current location information in exchange for location-based social services. This development poses great privacy risks. PALS aims at designing, implementing, and evaluating novel methods and tools to facilitate the privacy-aware sharing of location data with friends, strangers, and operators. Its goal is to offer a decentralized approach that supports all needed features of location sharing systems without the need to centrally collect location data.

LiSS: Living in Surveillance Societies

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Funding: COST · Apr 2009 – Feb 2013

The primary objective of the Action is to increase and deepen knowledge about living and working in the surveillance age, in order to better understand the consequences and impacts of enhanced surveillance, and subsequently to make recommendations about its future governance and practice.