FP7 SERENOA Project » context-aware adaptation

CASFE’2012

vivian.motti — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:01:28 +0000

The 1st Serenoa Workshop, named CASFE’2012, was held on November 13th at CNR/ISTI venue and co-located with the AmI’2012 conference. The workshop was organized in 10 presentations covering different aspects of context-aware adaptation, such as: frameworks, applications, tools, algorithms, languages, and evaluation. 20 participants from research institutes, universities and industrial domains, were involved in presenting and discussing the current trends and the state-of-the-art about adaptation. All the papers were submitted via EasyChair and all the reviewed versions of the documents approved will be soon publicly available online at the workshop website, at: http://www.serenoa-fp7.eu/casfe2012/workshop-agenda/

CASFE'2012

vivian.motti — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:15:58 +0000

The first Serenoa workshop will be held jointly with the Ambient Intelligence conference, in Pisa (Italy), on November, 13th, 2012.

Given the importance of performing context-aware adaptation in a scenario of ubiquitous, pervasive and mobile compu

ting, during this workshop experts in the domain will present and review the state-of-the-art of context-aware adaptation, and promote discussions, debates and exchange If you choose to subscribe to our premium products or services,we will request certain information from you such as your name, address,telephone number, e-mail address, and free-credits-report.com card information. of experiences among the interested community.

Related works that highlight requirements and criteria that drive context-aware adaptation are welcome for submission.

The workshop is organized by Francisco Javier Caminero Gil (Serenoa project coordinator), Fabio Paterno (CNR – ISTI) and Jean Vanderdonckt (UCL).

This workshop will last half a day, and participants are welcome from any background or discipline that is concerned with the main topic (Context-aware Adaptation).

For further information please refer to the webpage:www.serenoa-fp7.eu/casfe2012

Tactile Interaction

vivian.motti — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:24:04 +0000

Although the visual channels feature the most prominently in user interfaces, the tactile interaction provides a broad range of potential for applications too.

According to Chalis, the author of a interaction-design chapter dedicated to tactile in

teraction, although there is a broad range of reasons why designers might wish to explore non-visual modes of communication, this interaction type is perhaps being undervalued in terms of the potential source of feedback that it might offer. In his chapter, he discusses key issues for tactile interaction in terms of physical, perceptual and technological aspects.

The psychology of touch involves both physical and perceptual aspects, that are respectively responsible for detecting stimulus and interpreting it. The perception can be: tactile, kinesthetic or haptic. For instance, the vibrotactile feedback that is often employed in gloves, takes advantages of the cutaneous sense, which belongs to the tactile perception.

The general human reliance on vision suggests that if a conflict were to arise between our sense of touch and our sense of sight, it would be the visual aspect that becomes dominant. However, the visual dominance versus tactual dominance should not be thought of as a dichotomy as there is evidence of compromise between the two senses when they are in conflict. In addition, this level of compromise is likely to be highly individual and will also be affected by a bias towards the suitability of one or both senses to the nature of the task.

It is clear that current technologies cannot yet facilitate dynamic tactile displays that offer the same richness of detail and contrast that we experience with the objects around us on a daily basis. However, as much as this would be an obvious ultimate aim within a context of augmented reality or virtual environments, there are perhaps much more attainable targets that will still be of significant use.

Ben Challis researches about alternative modes of interaction. His original article, on which this post in based, can be accessed online at: http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/tactile_interaction.html

White Paper

vivian.motti — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:01:59 +0000

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12-07-20-at-10.03.18-300×178.png” alt=”" width=”300″ height=”178″ />As a recommendation of the project reviewers, Serenoa has just published its white paper. This document was collaboratively edited by all the project partners and it describes in a concrete manner the main results that can be expected of the project. A set of eight personas, playing different roles, was defined to illustrate scenarios in which the Serenoa results can be used.

The white paper presents the main motivations of the project, as well as how Serenoa plans to tackle the current issues in the domain of context-aware adaptation with the development of: theoretical models, ontologies, languages, authoring tools and application prototypes.

As added values and impact of the project, we can highlight:

Faster time to market;
Reduced development effort;
Promoted re-use;
More efficient solutions;
Increased agility;
Joined efforts.

Several beneficiares are envisaged, specially: developers, researchers, end users and executive directors.

For further information, please refer to the online version of the white paper that is publicly available.