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Lines of Activity

 

Cutting-edge Web Interfaces

This line of activity is focused on the implementation of key technologies to be used in the development of the web access layer (front-end layer) to the services on cutting-edge SOAs (Service Oriented Architectures) so that they can allow supporting user-oriented solutions by offering applications that are:

  • Customised: following IKEA‘s philosophy model, final users must have maximum autonomy and customisation capacity with regard to the configuration of their operating environment as a result of localising, choosing, customising and combining the resources available on the web in a flexible and dynamic fashion.
  • Flexible: final users must be able to create and share knowledge -which in turn comes to fruition in the form of a capacity to build new resources and publish them on the web- as well as to share their experiences with others, learning together and thus speeding up both the constant incorporation of innovation and the productivity improvement.
  • Reliable: interaction must be adapted and relevant to the context, giving the term “context” the broadest possible meaning so that it covers elements such as the user context (knowledge, profile, preferences, languages, information about the social networks to which the user belongs, etc.) or the use context (static and dynamic characteristics of the access device used, geographical location and weather, broadband connection, etc.) having into account both the context variability and the user mobility.

Mobility and Device Independence

 

The Device Independence line of activity aims at making services and applications available for the user regardless of the access device being used. A user can use a mobile device with any type of network connection. This involves:

  • Variable quality of the network connection.
  • Physical dimensions and characteristics of the device (limited data I/O mechanisms).
  • User’s partial attention (pilot, driver, etc.).
  • Environmental conditions (climate, noise, lighting, etc.).

This research activity is trying to solve all these situations or circumstances while respecting user demand for desktop devices with fixed connections.

Semantic Technologies

The semantic enrichment of information, based on the concept of ontology, makes it possible to improve its definition and further enables the use of automatic tools to extend the range of the services offered to users. The Semantic Web line of activity carries out multidisciplinary (computing and linguistics) research projects that provide innovative solutions to complex information processing and management problems.

At present, there are only incomplete tools to locate and display electronic information. Consequently, integrated services engines only display results that contain the same words that the user has entered into the query field. However, when using the Semantic Web, user information requests are treated accurately in relation to, for instance, hotel and flight reservations, medical services, books and so on.

The Semantic Web is changing the way in which we conceive the Internet. From being a large library of information, the Internet will become a tool that will allow answering users’ questions and providing services that are appropriate for each and every circumstance.

4U

This line of specialisation covers the following concepts:

  • Universal (accessible for all).
  • User-centred.
  • Usable (easy to use).
  • Useful.

The 4U line aims at providing universal access to information, regardless of factors such as type of software, language or user abilities. Generally speaking, accessibility and usability must be understood as indicators of both the possibility and ease with which something can be used or accessed to by all, including people with special needs (e.g., as a result of age or a disability).

Technical progress and the new applications and services offered by Information and Communication Technologies must not become a set of new obstacles, but rather a resource of opportunities that enables developments and solutions that are useful for the society as a whole.

Made up of multidisciplinary work teams and supported and advised by groups of people with special needs, this line of activity works on the conception and design of technology solutions that encourage the removal of barriers, thus contributing to the main principles of Design for All and Inclusion
 
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