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The group is currently involved in the following projects.
PalCom aims to research and develop a new perspective on ambient computing denoted palpable computing. Palpable denotes that systems are capable of being noticed and mentally apprehended. Palpable systems support people in understanding what is going on at the level they choose. Palpable systems support control and choice by people. Often the default mode is to suggest courses of action rather than acting automatically. Palpable computing will go beyond state-of-the-art and complement the vision of ambient computing.
InteractiveSpaces is an interdisciplinary research center bringing together architecture, engineering, and computer science with the research mission to create new concepts for future interactive spaces. InteractiveSpaces.net also bring together companies and public researchers in a R&D activities leading to new products and services for specific domains. The research activities focus on six themes which may be applicable to one or more of the application domain projects undertaken in the center. The application domains to be studies include schools, libraries, museums, homes and specific workplaces and homes.
Pervasive computing goes beyond the traditional user interfaces, on the one hand imploding them into small devices and appliances, and on the other hand exploding them onto large scale walls, buildings and furniture.
The aim of this project is to explore how the home can be integrated into a network of healthcare providers, and the project focuses on a case study of pregnant women with diabetes. One goal of the study is to explore how heterogeneous data collected in collaboration between the healthcare professionals and the woman can become integrated in a personal health record. A challenge closely related to this particular case study is the issue of accounting for the individuality of the women, and their personal desires and needs for medical treatment and support.
Ubiquitous User Interface Design is a project aiming to provide a theoretical framework used to understand and support interaction in ubiquitous environments.
The UrbanWeb project explores an open Web approach to pervasive computing and aims especially at urban environments. The project hypothesizes that pervasive computing and recent trends in Web technologies (e.g. Web Mashups (service aggregation), collaborative tagging, social filtering, etc., often described as Web 2.0 techniques) can be combined to create an open, highly scaleable, contextaware architecture that supports true pervasive information applications and services which not only adapt to the users’ physical and social context, but also let users actively contribute to the information available in both private and public places. The project has a number of foci, including Infrastructure, Structuring mechanisms, Context matching, and Interaction techniques.
The aim of this project was to bring together the valuable experiences made both in the industry and in the scientific environment and through an action oriented research strategy to further develop the theoretical, methodical and practical basis for usability work. The project had special focus on development in use, realistic use situations and testing new kinds of user involvement.
The project transcended many limitations of the WWW model and created new technological possibilities for users of hypermedia on the Internet by focusing on two main sub-activities being "Hypermedia based collaboration support on the Internet" and "Component based Web-services and Web-building blocks for non-programmers".
The Centre for Human-Machine Interaction (CHMI) was established in 1998 by the Danish National Research Foundation, Risø National Laboratory and the University of Aarhus. CHMI was organized as a cross-disciplinary research network between some twenty scientists and PhD students at seven Danish sites with an engagement in the fundamental aspects of human-machine interaction and their implications for design. The aim of the joint activities was to get an improved theoretical understanding of human behavior in complex, technologically advanced work settings, and, based on these insights, to develop novel principles for the design of user-centered human-machine systems.
The DESARTE project was concerned with the design of computer-based systems to support the work of architects and landscape architects.
The focus of the DMM project was on research issues central to the development and use of distributed multimedia.
The objective of the WorkSPACE project was to develop software components and hardware artefacts that may be combined and integrated into augmented reality work places, environments, and fields.
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Responsible: Michael I.
Schwartzbach
Last Modified: 09 March 2005 |