Ongoing

• uTRUSTit
• Bedmond
• Chronious
• PrimeLife
• PICOS
• HERMES
• CompanionAble
• Laboranova

Completed

• MINET
• LIAISON
• WalkonWeb
• TACIT - Technologies Augmenting Clinical InsighT
• Xaudio - Use of Broadcast Audio to Assist Mobile Internet Interaction
• CONSENSUS - 3G Mobile Context Sensitive Adaptability
• OmniPaper - Smart Access to European Newspapers
• UsabilityNet - Usability Support Network
• EDUCAT - Education Content Assembly Tool
• SMILE
• FIRM
• EMMUS
• MAYPOLE
• WINPAR

uTRUSTit – Usable Trust in the Internet of Things
2010 – 2013

Project Number: FP7-ICT (258360)

The main goal of uTRUSTit is the development of a secure, trustworthy, trusted, legally compliant and accessible prototype for the Internet of things. The prototype will provide user-feedback on security and trustworthiness of the Internet of things in a selected scenario setting. It will include measures for identity management, risk and policy compliance verification as well as trustworthy communication.

As project coordinator CURE will take care of project management including project administration, internal communication, risk and opportunity management, reporting, and quality management. CURE tasks will focus on the definition of user scenarios and personas. Also CURE will establish mental models of trust. The goal of this task is to elicit users’ mental models of trust when using distributed and networked software systems and services. Initial mental models will be created based on observations of users while using selected technologies with follow-up interviews.

Project Partners:
Norwegian Computing Center (Norsk Regnesentral) (Norway)
Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (The Netherlands)
Search Lab - Security Evaluation Analysis and Research Laboratory (Hungary)
Sweden Connectivity (Sweden) 

www.utrustit.eu

BEDMOND - Behaviour pattern based assistant for Early Detection and Management of Neurodegenerative Diseases

2009 – 2012 Project Number: AAL-2008-1-026

The BEDMOND project aims at developing an ICT-based system for an early detection of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, focused on elderly people while living at home. With such an early detection health professionals can later on apply an early treatment which will help the elder to live longer in an independent way at home by delaying as long as possible Alzheimer’s disease appearance.

Within this project Cure will analyse the needs and wishes of health professionals for dementia diagnosis and identify, clarify and prioritize end-users’ needs (from elders and families) and engineering requirements (from local medical and/or social and/or research teams). In order to achieve a systematic improvement of the usability and the applicability of the BEDMOND interface in everyday life routines, Cure will ensure continuous involvement of all end-users in the development process.

Project Partners:
- Fundación Robotiker (Coordinator) (Spain)
- Fundación Ingema (Spain)
- Bioingeniería Aragonesa (Spain)
- Austrian Research Centers (Austria)
- Meticube (Portugal)

CHRONIOUS - An Open, Ubiquitous and Adaptive Chronic Disease

Management Platform for COPD and Renal Insufficiency

2008 - 2011 Project number: ICT - 216461

PrimeLife - Privacy and Identity Management in Europe for Life

2008 - 2012 Project reference: FP7-ICT-2007-1

PrimeLife aims at the protection and sustainment of life-long privacy in collaborative scenarios and virtual communities. Therefore the core privacy and trust issues have to be resolved in order to counter the trend to life-long personal data trails. PrimeLife is based on the PRIME project which has previously shown how privacy technologies can enable citizens to execute their legal rights to control personal information in on-line transactions. PrimeLife will substantially advance the state of the art in the areas of human computer interfaces, configurable policy languages, web service federations, infrastructures and privacy-enhancing cryptography. The adoption of the developed privacy technologies by the community will be ensured by collaborating with Open Source communities and standardization bodies.

CURE contributes to the project in the field of human computer interaction with research, development and testing of user interface mockups and prototypes. Furthermore CURE is responsible for the design and the contribution of the HCI components for the Open Source initiative.

Project Partners:
Amongst the 15 partners are e.g.:
- IBM Research GmbH (Switzerland, coordinator)
- Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz (Germany)
- Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)
- Karlstads Universitet (Sweden)
- Europäisches Microsoft Innovations Center GmbH (Germany)
- SAP AG (Germany)
- Brown University (United States)
- Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Brabant (Netherlands)

PICOS - Privacy and Identity Management for Community Services

2008 - 2011 Project reference: FP7-ICT-2007-1

PICOS addresses the issue of trust, privacy and identity management of community services and applications on the internet and in mobile communication networks. The main focus of this project is placed upon community-supporting services and complex distributed service architectures. As a result, a state-of-the-art platform will create interoperable, open, privacy-respecting identity and trust management tools that will be used to construct community application prototypes by leading industry partners. Those will then be evaluated by selected on-line communities for their usability, ergonomics, legal issues, trust and privacy.

In this project CURE is working on the identification of the key user groups and communities and analyzes the different attributes and
functions necessary to establish trust, identity and privacy in on-line interactions. CURE closely collaborates with end-users and
develops a comprehensive trial and assessment outline plan to determine the criteria for assessing the developed technology.

Project Partners:
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität (Germany, coordinator)
- Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Bristol (United Kingdom)
- Hewlett-Packard Centre de Competence France (France)
- Universidad de Málaga (Spain)
- Katholike Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
- IT-Objects GmbH (Germany)
- Atos Origin (Spain)
- T-Mobile International (Germany)
- Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (Germany)
- Brno University (Czech Republic)

Hermes- Cognitive Care and Guidance for Active Aging

2008 - 2010 Project reference: FP7-ICT 216709

HERMES aims to develop assistive technology for older people to reduce age-related decline of cognitive capabilities and assist the user where necessary in retrospective and prospective memory. Based on intelligent audio and visual processing and reasoning, the project results in a combination of a home-based and mobile device to support the user’s cognitive state and prevent cognitive decline. HERMES aims specifically at supporting the decline in capabilities by using other functional cognitive skills and training these, thereby reducing the need for active care and support and substantially increasing the ability to cope with everyday life and to live independently.  

The project is partially funded by the EU (total funding: € 2 820 000). As the project's coordinator, CURE responsibility is the successful delivery of the technology within time and budget and matching with user needs. Within the project, CURE takes care to ensure that the HERMES technology is aligned to the needs from end-users, in particular CURE’s user experience research and user assessment methods will be used to perform detailed requirements analysis in the early phase of the project. Furthermore, CURE will perform a key role in the project in developing the HERMES user interface. CURE investigates the design of information retrieval for life events and will develop an information architecture and user interface that effectively triggers and supports the human memory. Finally, CURE is responsible for the validity of the project’s results through field trial evaluations.

Project Partners:

- CURE (Coordinator)
- INGEMA (Spain)
- IBM Haifa Research Labs (Israel)
- Bradford University (United Kingdom)
- AIT - Athens Information Technology (Greece)
- TXT E-Solutions (Italy)
For more information about the project, visit

http://www.fp7-hermes.eu   

CompanionAble - Integrated Cognitive Assistive & Domotic Companion Robotic Systems for Ability & Security

2008 - 2011

Project Reference: FP7-ICT 216487

CompanionAble addresses the issues of social inclusion and homecare of persons suffering from chronic cognitive disabilities prevalent among the elderly, a rapidly increasing population group. Those people need support of carers and are at risk of social exclusion, yet this problem not well addressed by ICT technology, but would lead to a social and economical pressure for staying at home as long as possible. The project focuses on combining the strengths of a mobile robotic companion with the advantages of a stationary smart home. ositive effects of both individual solutions shall be combined to demonstrate how the synergies between a stationary smart home solution and an embodied mobile robot companion can make the care and the care person's interaction with her assistive system significantly better.

Within the project, CURE's focus lies on the evaluation of the three scenarios that are defined in the project, i.e. the support that can be provided by the smart home alone, by the robot companion alone, and by a combination of the two.

Project Partners:

Amongst the 19 partners are e.g.:

- University of Reading (UK, coordinator)

- Technical University of Ilmena (D)

- University of  A Coruna (ES)

- MetraLabs (ES)

- GET/INT (F)

- Austrian Research Centers (AT)

- AKG (AT)

- INGEMA (ES)

For more information about the project, visit

http://www.companionable.org

LABORANOVA - Collaboration Enviroment for Strategic Innovation

2006 - 2009
Project number: IST-5-035262-IP

The concept of Laboranova is to enable knowledge workers to create, share, improve and evaluate ideas systematically across teams, networks, and companies, and thereby improving their innovation processes. Laboranova will build technology supporting the three most important pillars in strategic innovation: ideation, connection and evaluation. In this project, CURE will perform user studies and requirement analyses that lead to realistic deployment scenarios and development that matches real user needs. User interface guidelines will be developed to assist the development of a user-centered application interface for the complex Laboranova framework. Moreover, usability testing and evaluations are performed throughout Laboranova development.

Project Partners:
Amongst the 18 partners are e.g.:
- Danfoss (DK)
- FIAT / ISVOR (IT)
- SAP (D)
- Université Paris IX Dauphine (F)
- Learning Lab Denmark (DK)

MINET – Measuring the Impossible

2006 – 2010
Project Number: (EU-NEST) 43297

‘Measuring the Impossible’ dealt with the application of objective metrology to holistic quantities and qualities which are perceived and interpreted by the human brain and mind. Providing a means for reproducible measurement of parameters such as pleasure and pain has important implications in evaluating all kinds of products, services and conditions. MINET successfully further developed soft measurement science and established a viable European MtI community.

CURE’s role within MINET was manifold. CURE brought in user experience methods which range from the measurement of different user experience factors to the measurement of emotions and eye gaze patterns. Furthermore, CURE established a bridge between the multidisciplinary MINET consortium and the HCI-community aiming for a stronger exchange of ideas and views.

Project partners:
- Stockholm University (Coordinator) (Swe)
- National Physical Laboratory (UK)
- Unilever R&D (NL/UK)
- University of Genova (Ita)
- Wageningen UR (NL)
- Helsinki School of Economics (Fin)
- Laboratory of Citizenship Sciences (Ita)
- University of Ljubljana (Slo)
- SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden (Swe)
- Technical University of Berlin (Ger)
- University of Mannheim (Ger)
- University of Haifa (Isr)
- Profactor GmbH (Austria)
- Tilburg University (NL)
- Fraunhofer Institut für Biomedizinische Technik (Ger)
- Technische Universität Dresden (Ger)
- University of Helsinki (Fin)
- Hammel Neurocentre (Den)
- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Ita)
- Ircam (Fra) 

LIAISON - LocatIon BAsed ServiceS for the Enhancement of WOrking EnviroNment

2004 - 2008
Project number: IST-511766

The LIAISON project will turn emergent technologies, applications and services into actual business cases. It will develop solutions that fulfil in a competitive manner the needs of workers in their daily life, for seamless and personalised location services across heterogeneous networks. To achieve this target, LIAISON will integrate numerous existing standards and techniques, bring a set of emerging underlying technologies to the required maturity for professional usage. It will enhance the systems’ capabilities through innovations resulting from EGNOS and Galileo signals as well as the newest telecom-techniques. A key basis of all solutions are location based services. Therefore a major goal will be the preparation of the European market to LBS before the operational launch of the GALILEO services.

CURE will be heavily involved in all the six (or more) business cases, which will be developed during the project. A major focus will lie on the social and organisational impacts of these solutions. CURE will be responsible for the service assessment of the cases and will ensure that the project considers users' needs for privacy and for security. CURE will also assess the solutions in terms of usability, ergonomics, and user experience.

Project Partners:
Amongst the 24 partners are e.g.:
- Alcatel Space (F)
- France Telecom (F)
- Sussex Police Authority (UK)
- Vodafone-Panafon S.A. (GR)
- GeoConcept (F)

WalkonWeb

2004 - 2007
Project number: IST-2-004688-STP

WalkOnWeb supported hikers by providing an integrated platform including hiking information on paths, landmarks, weather, etc.. The platform was not only based on a “desktop web solution” but also integrated other channels like maps on paper, PDAs and mobile phones. Both GEO-ontologies as well as GPS services were crucial pillars of the final prototype. GEO-ontologies enabled hikers to search for hiking paths by the paths' characteristics, which are derived from electronical maps.

CURE analysed the needs of the various subgroups of hikers. These groups included families, hikers looking for adventures, elderly hikers, hikers with cultural interests, etc. Based on these finding user requirements were deduced. CURE was also responsible for the conceptual design of the various user interfaces. Tests in the field - also conducted by CURE - evaluated the project's outcomes.

TACIT - Technologies Augmenting Clinical InsighT

2004 – 2006
Project number: IST-2002-507691

The vision of TACIT was to unlock the tacit knowledge of Europe's senior clinicians both by linguistically analysed multimedia recording and by expert location and communications. TACIT combined this with explicit knowledge from clinical systems and research sources into a user friendly Clinical Expertise Browser. TACIT enabled expertise sharing within healthcare Communities of Practice with the goal to reduce clinical risk and improve the quality of service to patients. TACIT prototyped and piloted in cancer care where it supported the entire clinical process across primary and secondary care.

CURE brought two vital sets of skills to the project: firstly its expertise in knowledge management and secondly its strong experience in usability. CURE conducted the user and task analysis and produced the user requirements document. Later prototyping and quality assurance activities followed. CURE supported also the validation of the final prototype in the pilots.

Xaudio - Use of Broadcast Audio to Assist Mobile Internet Interaction

2002 - 2004
Project number: IST-2001-36022

Xaudio did the first steps towards a world where any radio broadcast of interest can be used to take the listener directly and automatically to a web page or a mobile service that is relevant to the listener's context of use.

CURE studied the user needs of different radio listeners and organised and conducted the first field trials with this new technology.

CONSENSUS - 3G Mobile Context Sensitive Adaptability

2002 - 2004
Project number: IST-2001-32407

Consensus enabled programmers to develop browser based applications for a variety of different mobile devices by the usage of only one development tool. The need to adapt applications manually to the different devices was minimized by this automation. Usability research and empirical studies focusing on the requirements of different mobile devices made sure that the usability of the resulting applications met high quality standards. In particular this project benefited from CURE's user studies, which led to the development of a styleguide for mobile business applications, which was the basis for CONSENSUS's adaptation engine. CURE conducted field trials with the first applications developed with this development tool.

OmniPaper - Smart Access to European Newspapers

2002 - 2004
Project number: IST-2001-32174

OmniPaper investigated methods for drastically enhancing multilingual access to distributed information resources in a self-learning environment. The OmniPaper prototype enabled users to search for and navigate through online news originating from a large number of digital European newspapers.

UsabilityNet - Usability Support Network

2001 - 2003
Project number: IST-1999-29067

The objective of Usabilitynet was to promote usability, user-centred design and process improvement in Europe and also in other parts of the world.

EDUCAT - Education Content Assembly Tool

2001 - 2003
Project number: IST-2000-29247

The Education Content Assembly Toolset (EduCAT) was designed to enable educators who do not necessarily had prior software development skills to create their own simulations and interactive educational applications. The Toolset's strength is that it provides a very simple approach to multimedia programming which is also very powerful and extensible.

SMILE - A Sign language and Multimedia based Interactive Language course for Deaf for the training of European written languages

1998 - 2000
Project number: MM 1046

SMILE was created to support people suffering from hearing impairment in gaining full access to written information. For this Project CURE has been carrying out usability evaluations and learning validations for an e-learning software, which supports deaf people in acquiring and training written language skills (including e.g. video demonstrations of sign language). A longitudinal test set with several assessment points was developed. Studies were carried out in several European countries (Austria, Sweden, Scotland).

FIRM

In this project public entities and industrial representations from Austria, Germany and Greece analysed the possibilities to support European SMIs in founding new companies. Which kind of information do they need and how to minimize the bureaucratic effort? The project resulted in a prototype, which allowed a thorough assessment of what was possible. Furthermore the prototype showed which barriers are hard to take in terms of legal, organizational and cross cultural problems.

EMMUS - European MultiMedia Usability Services

In EMMUS we succeeded in combining Europe's leading usability organizations and multimedia producers in a joint network. Contents and services were developed to support the European MultiMedia industry in producing better and more usable systems.

MAYPOLE

The Maypole project consortium studied local communities' communicational behaviour. Based on these studies the partners developed first highly innovative concepts for a communication device for local communities. After thorough assessment of the concepts, prototypes were built and tested in field studies. For these trials children and their social networks were chosen as local test communities. Test beds were set up in Finland and Austria.

WINPAR

The WINPAR consortium designed and implemented a toolkit for the development of parallel programs. CURE was responsible for the highly innovative user interface and visualization techniques.