1. Overview of Smarcos
June 9th, 2010
Dr. Jani Mäntyjärvi / VTT + Dr. Pertti Huuskonen / Nokia
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This R&D project (100249) is financed by ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking, the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, AgentschapNL and the Flemish government Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT) under contract number
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2. SMARCOS Motivation: Welcome to the ubicomp reality
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7. ERROR: Can’t make espresso. These cups are for cappuccino.

8. locked by user KOOL_KID. Enter admin password to unlock: ______
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11. key topics
InterUsability: User Interface level interoperability of embedded systems. HCI for multiple mobile & fixed devices, multiple modalities and contexts, user models, profiles.
Use case driven: hot industrial cases, attentive devices, collaborative systems, complex control systems. High visibility with demos.
The Concrete Paradigm change achieved by SMARCOS: To Make connected devices appear to the user as one unified service or a user interface, not as separate systems. 

12. Smart Composite Human-Computer Interfaces
Consortium
17 partners
7 countries
14 M€
Coordinator: Nokia
S&T lead: VTT
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13. Smart Composite Human-Computer Interfaces
Work Structure
WP4: Wellness, support for healthy lifestyles via sensored and situation aware devices
WP5: Mobile devices + cloud services for smart context aware communities
WP6: Aviation, process control, vehicles, systems for the disabled
The horizontal WPs contribute the R&D content, technical solutions and concepting
The vertical WPs contextualise the specific research and technology questions.
They also provide platforms for evaluating the created solutions through experiments and trials.
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Focus & results
Focus: Enables interusability of embedded systems on various domains. Transparent information fusion on user interfaces, context and profiles from distributed sources.
Physical
Link
Network
Transport, session, etc
Presentation
Application
Symbol
Semantics
Human
“Dad comes home.”
Physical
Link
Network
Transport, session, etc
Presentation
Application
Symbol
Semantics
Human
We build
DOOR_OPEN
Switch45: Closed
HTTP, IMAP, SOAP
HTML, XML, SSL
TCP, UDP
We use
00:14:51:ed:ed:ac
V, A, Hz, km, pins
Embedded system
Embedded system
Delivers: Concrete software and modeling methods (UI, context, profiles, tasks) for building interusable embedded systems.
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15. Relevance to Artemis goals
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16. Smarcos Innovates and standardises
SMARCOS Innovation push:
Our WPs involve cases from major industrial partners.  We continuously validate their business relevance through numerous pilots, prototypes and trials.
Through our partners’ significant market share and the power of open source communities we can gain significant traction to our solutions.
SMARCOS Standardisation and Tool Platform ambitions:
We seek to offer our results as open source whenever possible.
Our partners have power to ensure de facto standards.
We build a number of tools for UI modelling that will be made widely available.
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