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PASION (http://www.ist-pasion.com/) : is an EU-funded project in the IST-FET program. The goal of the project is to develop ways of “augmenting” computer mediated communication over networks, with new forms of information about users' emotional state, their context – for instance their current location and activity – their position within their social network, and the overall dynamics of the network. The basic hypothesis underlying the project is that this augmentation can contribute to more effective group interactions – both in professional situations (e.g. during collaborative work) and during leisure (e.g. online “social gaming, online social networking). Xiwrite's role in the project has been to develop end-user scenarios and requirements, to contribute to the interaction design, to analyze data from trials and to coordinate investigations on ethical and business development issues.
SMS (http://www.ist-sms.org/): is an EU-funded project in the IST program. To date mobile services have failed to replicate the success of the World Wide Web. The SMS Consortium believes that the reason is not technology but the lack of standards and standards-based tools - and more important still - the absence of the millions of small providers who have driven the internet explosion. The goal of the SMS project is to address these issues, creating innovative tools enabling a new class of services, addressing the specific needs of mobile users and enabling individuals and small businesses to become service providers. These services will be simple to find, simple to use, simple to trust and simple to set up. The project calls them Simple Mobile Services (SMS). Xiwrite's goal in the project has been to contribute to the overall project vision, to translate this vision into end-user scenarios, to develop business models making it possible to bring the vision “into the real world”, and to assist the coordinator in the management of the project.
Neurovers-IT: is an EU funded project in the Marie Curie Program. The theme of Neurovers-IT is the use of in vitro neuronal networks, as a new class of computational device. The hypothesis guiding the project is that such devices will replicate some of the inherent capabities of natural neural networks - in particular the ability to learn, to adapt to the environment and to repair itself.. This implies that in the long run it may be possible to use them in applications where it is not practical to use silicon-based technology. If this vision is to become reality, it will be necessary to create new collaborations between disciplines as different as basic neuroscience, computer science, electronic engineering, and robotics). Neurovers-IT is contributing to this goal by bringing together researchers from these different disciplines in a multidisciplinary program of research and on-the-job training designed to verify the project's basic scientific hypotheses. Xiwrite's role in the project is to manage the project's Distance Learning Program and to provide courses on specific issues within our fields of competence, in particular, Scientific Writing and European Project Management.
PACE ( http://www.protocell.org/PACE ) : PACE was one of the first “Integrated Projects” to be funded under the EU's Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) program – in Framework VI. The project began in April 2004 and will continue until June 2008. The goal is to lay the foundations for a new generation of embedded information technology using programmable, self-assembling artificial cells – genuine artificial life. From 20005-6 one of the project partners was Telecom Italia Learning Services (TILS). XiWrite assists TILS in organizing its contribution to the project and in liaising with partners whose backgrounds are in biology and chemistry rather than in Information Technology. In particular, XiWrite contributed to a PACE project deliverable describing potential IT applications of programmable artificial cells. In May 2008, Xiwrite will manage a summer school (“ Blueprint for an Artificial Cell ”) dedicated to the work of the project ()
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