Open Innovation & Community Tools
In what ways can users join the innovation process in the tourism, sports and leisure industry? To answer this question, we identified and assessed different concepts, methods and applications. In addition, we are monitoring and assessing online communities to identify trends and product ideas in the sports industry.
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FEMroute – Consideration of gender-specific requirements for mobile services
So far the producers of mobility supporting systems have often used little more than fancy packaging and design to reach out to female customers. The underlying software solutions, however, usually have been remained unchanged. Female-specific factors in spatial perception and navigation were either not considered sufficiently, or not at all. This ignores studies that have shown gender-specific differences concerning orientation and strategies of path-finding.
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MobiCom – Study on Mobile Communities
A study on how to develop successful mobile communities in the domains of games, learning and health
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emteba – Emerging Technology Base
The emteba knowledge base addresses users and experts in emerging technology fields. The aim of the emteba platform is to boost the visibility of projects in these areas and contribute to the emerging web of linked data.
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peak.AR – Experience the intriguing panorama of the peaks surrounding you
Have you ever wondered “What is the name of that prominent peak over there?” – find the answer simply by taking a look through the camera of your iPhone or Android device.
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SNML-SAMY – Single Point of Access Semantic Media Repository Framework
The SAMY project (“Single Point of Access Semantic Media Repository Framework“) deals with typical problems of historically grown media art archives. Its goal is to develop generic solutions based on an open source software framework that supports the functionalities of an asset management system as well as the administration of semantic networks based on an ontology.
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MobilityLab – Sun Center of Excellence
The MobilityLab is a Center of Excellence on Engineering of Location-based Services (LBS). It is a joint initiative between industry and research. The MobilityLab constitutes a laboratory that strives for improving the engineering process of LBS by conducting research and development on technical as well as methodological issues. It combines concrete industrial needs with scientific results. Ultimately, this will lead to cost-effective and user-friendly mobile or location-based services.
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i-busuu – Language learning on a online social community platform
Innovative solutions for language learning in an online social community
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SemWay – Semantics for Navigation Systems
SemWay aims at developing a methodology and models for building semantically enriched navigation systems.
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EduMoodle – Evaluation of the learning platform EduMoodle
A study on the use of EduMoodle commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture
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ComStudy – Successful virtual community building and technological support
The success of new and participative applications of the Web 2.0 is deeply connected with the usage by virtual communities. Their involvement is essential for the success of these Web-related projects. Hence, the question about successful community building is crucial and gets a lot of attention.
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SNML-FCP – Future Content Platforms
The traditional way of creating content involves many different steps and often is a time-consuming as well as expensive endeavor. Contents are often restricted by the respective type of media they are to be used for (e.g. text and images for a newspaper), which also mostly leave little space for user-generated contents. However, current developments on the internet like “social software” and the “semantic web” are gradually changing the way contents are consumed.
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Smart Move – tripwolf iPhone travel guide
The mobile iPhone application “tripwolf iPhone travel guide“ offers travelers quick (online and offline) access to topical, professional information on different countries, regions and cities. With the help of Augmented Reality, information is automatically displayed right in live view on their iPhone camera.
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OECD study on ICT in Teacher Training
Austrian part of the OECD study on the use of ICT in initial teacher training on behalf of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture.
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CaR Connect and Rescue
A software prototype for the connection of the IT of the field forces to existing in-house IT-Security systems
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SNML-InterEDU – Educational materials for teachers and students
The objective of the “Intelligent Edumedia Repository“ (InterEDU) project is to develop an online platform for digital multimedia educational materials (Edumedia Repository).
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SNML-SMA – Digital Media Archives
Digital media archives – together instead of alone? The digital archives of today’s medium-sized and major companies are more than just a collection of documents and rows of numbers. They also contain a huge amount of images, technical drawings, animations and audiovisual materials (e.g. voice recordings and video features). With the production of digital materials becoming easier, the demands for archivists are gradually rising.
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ways2know – An innovative tool for knowledge management of ways2go
Assessment of feasibility of a knowledge management tool
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FLOW – Dynamical Fleet Scheduling
Design and evaluate a service architecture to utilize real-time traffic information for dynamical fleet scheduling.
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