SOCIETIES

From FutureInternetWiki

Short Description:

The vision of SOCIETIES is to develop a complete, integrated Community Smart Space (CSS), which extends pervasive systems beyond the individual to dynamic communities of users. CSSs will embrace on-line community services, such as Social Networking in order to offer new and powerful ways of working, communicating and socialising.

SOCIETIES will radically improve the utility and scope of future Internet services by merging social computing and pervasive computing through the design, implementation and evaluation of an open scalable service architecture and platform for self-orchestrating Community Smart Spaces.

The goal of SOCIETIES will be achieved through four key objectives:

· To facilitate the creation, organisation, management and communication of communities via Community Smart Spaces, where pervasive computing is integrated with social computing communities;

· To provide an enhanced user experience for both individuals and entire user communities, based on proactive smart space behaviour and dynamic sharing of community resources across geographic boundaries;

· To design and prototype a robust open and scalable system for self-orchestrating Community Smart Spaces; To evaluate, through strong involvement of end-users, the usefulness and acceptance of the developed CSS software via three user trials (students, enterprise and disaster management)

Home Page:

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News feed:

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Contact Persons:

Kevin Doolin (kdoolin AT tssg.org) Claudio Venezia (claudio.venezia AT telecomitalia.it)