REFLECT is a research project funded by the European Union's 7th
Framework Programme (FP7) that runs from January 1st 2008 to March 31st
2011. The project consortium consists of Fraunhofer FIRST,
Ferrari, Philips, LMU Munich, LJMU Liverpool, Uni Groningen, Uni Pavia
and Institut Mihajlo Pupin. The REFLECT project is coordinated by Nikola
Serbedzija, Fraunhofer FIRST, Berlin. more..
Activities
2nd UCPA Workshop in Sydney
The second PerAda
Workshop on User-Centric Pervasive Adaptive Systems was held in
conjunction with the 7th International ICST Conference on Mobile and
Ubiquitous Systems on December 6th to 9th 2010 in Sydney, Australia. It
explored topics such as software engineering for adaptive systems,
methods to sense, analyze and influence the psycho-physiological state
of the user, or the design of user interfaces for adaptive applications. more..
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The REFLECT project aims at developing new concepts and means for
pervasive-adaptive systems. REFLECT researches ways of sensing users and
their mood and intentions. Different aspects are taken into account:
emotional state (e.g. annoyance), cognitive engagement (e.g. high mental
workload) and physical conditions and actions (e.g. temperature and
movement). All these together with human behavioural patterns form the
personal awareness of the system. Additionally, information about the
surroundings is gathered and used to establish environmental awareness.Augmenting
these results, REFLECT investigates ways of realizing
pervasive-adaptive environments. A software framework with a set of
practical tools is developed which can be used for building pervasive,
adaptable, self-organized systems that seamlessly collaborate with users
and control their environments.
The resulting REFLECT system
will be able to derive, suggest and perform actions to optimize user
comfort and performance, assisting people in their specific activities,
for example, in driving a vehicle. To illustrate the pragmatic
orientation and results, the REFLECT project includes a number of case
studies and a prototype from the automotive domain that shows how such
systems can be deployed in practice. |
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