Co-Worker
“Collaborative working Environment
for people on the move
Dr. E. Bekiaris - HIT
HIT: 35 running EC projects, 11 as Coordinator,
including 2 IPs.
Lane
Detection
system
Radar
system
Mirror with
driver warning
system
Eye lid
Sensor
3 industrial PCs
& control
units
Eye gaze
sensor
2
Previous record in the area
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Coordinator of IMAGE (Intelligent agentsbased infomobility services).
Coordinator of IM@GINE 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).
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Co-Worker
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).
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User Needs (1/2)
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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.
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User Needs (2/2)
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Traveling worker support: Multimodal,
seamless and personalised guidance (on
transportation routes and means, as well
as meeting scheduling and rescheduling).
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”.
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Innovation
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Context awareness.
Personalised service, according to the user dynamic.
preferences and particular task requirements.
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Seamless service position.
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Semantic web search and P2P platform for open
content access.
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VR/AR application into 3G mobile platforms.
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Application areas
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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.
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The architecture
User Device
User
FIPA platform
(JADE-LEAP)
User Interface
1, 2
Work-task Agent
NDA
1, 2
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6
Personal Assistant Agent
Transport Mode Agent
1, 2
Internet
FIPA platform
(JADE)
1, 2
1, 2
Middle Agent
Complex Services
Agent
iM ac
Corporate Web Server
Events Handler
Agent
Provider Agents
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