Dr. E. Bekiaris - HIT Co-Worker “Collaborative working Environment for people on the move

2 HIT: 35 running EC projects, 11 as Coordinator, including 2 IPs. Lane Detection system Radar system Eye gaze sensor Eye lid Sensor 3 industrial PCs & control units Mirror with driver warning system

3 Previous record in the area  Coordinator of IMAGE (Intelligent agents- based infomobility services).  Coordinator of IT (Intelligent agents-based multimodal transport services).  Technical Manager of ASK-IT IP (Intelligent agents-based service framework for MI people, including eWorking / eLearning application).  Core Group partner in INTUITION NoE and VIRTHUALIS IP (on VR technologies).

4 Call: IST Call 5, IST-2.5.3, Task 1 Aim: To develop the next generation collaborative environment for mobile workers, taking into account their location, context of use, info access level, business needs and personal preferences. Main issues: Combination of ambient intelligence technologies (including intelligent agents, localisation and PPP technologies) with collaborative working (VR/AR application over mobile terminals). Co-Worker

5 User Needs (1/2)  Distributed working Group Management: Team work coordination and company knowledge management (ERP) from a distance.  Seamless work access: Ability to use allied facilities (i.e of another company, of the airport, etc.) for your work, with security and appropriate access levels.  Virtual agent: Locate interesting actors for cooperation (i.e wihin an exhibition) perform “handshaking” and even organise automatically an appoitment.

6 User Needs (2/2)  Traveling worker support: Multimodal, seamless and personalised guidance (on transportation routes and means, as well as meeting scheduling and re- scheduling).  Scenario sharing and reproduction: Through mobile P2P and a wearable platform, the user requests knowledge, in the form of “how-to-do-it” and best practice “paradigms”.

7 Innovation  Context awareness.  Personalised service, according to the user dynamic. preferences and particular task requirements.  Seamless service position.  Semantic web search and P2P platform for open content access.  VR/AR application into 3G mobile platforms.

8 Application areas  Business Manager (staying seamlessly in touch with his/her team, getting reports, but also guidance to meeting places and hotels, etc.). Multimodal support in transport use case.  Technical Personel (getting virtual support like “virtual trainer”, for maintenance tasks, as well as receiving detailed instructions, installation maps, etc.). Very rich content use case for VR/AR application.  Travelling salesman (customised data on product to sell, including video, 3D pictures, etc.). The exhibition negotiation use case could fit here.

9 The architecture