Ongoing Projects

Ubiloop

Summary: The project Ubiloop is focused on the development of innovative methods for reporting critical incidents found by citizens in urban context to local administrations. In our working scenario, citizens should be able to use diverse kind of devices (mainly mobile phones) to inform to local administrations the occurrence of incidents that need immediate care such as a hydrant leaking. The goals associated to this project imply activities of research and development covering in the following areas: engineering of interactive systems, human-interaction in mobile contexts, social aspects related to incident reporting and risk management. The neighborhood association “Croix de Pierre” of Toulouse will contribute to this project consortium acting as end users for the scenarios proposed.

Type: FEDER

Sponsors: Fonds européen de développement régional (FEDER), Région Midi-Pyrénnées.

Begin: December 2010

Duration: 24 months

ICS members: Marco Winckler (scientific coordinator) & Regina Bernhaupt

Partners: ICS-IRIT, IEP Toulouse, Génigraph

Personal Information Management through Internet (PIMI)

Summary: The future Internet will bring a growing number of networked applications (services), devices and individual data (including private ones) to end-users. The important challenges are the organization of their access, and the guarantee of trust and privacy. The objectives of the PIMI project are the definition of a design environment and a deployment platform for Personal Information Management System (PIMS). The future PIMS must provide the end-user personal data access with services that are relevant to his needs. In order to take mobility into account, the PIMS will be accessed both by mobile devices (smartphone) and Personal Computers.

Type: ANR (National Project)

Sponsor: RNTL (appel d'offre 2010)

Begin: November 2010

Duration: 3 years

Theme: Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS), e-Governement applications, Ubiquitous and Adaptive User Interface.

ICS members: Marco Winckler and Philippe Palanque

Partners: GENIGRAPH, INRIA Rocquencourt, IRIT, IT (Institut Telecom), LRI, Montimage, Région Midi-Pyrénées, CTIE-Luxembourg

HALA! : Higher Automation Levels in Automation!

Application domain: The research aims at improving automation in Air Traffic Management.

Type: International research network (SESAR)

Begin: November 2010

Sponsor: EUROCONTROL

Duration: 36 months

Partners: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan – KTH Stockholm, CRIDA, Boeing Research & Technology Europe S.L, DEEP BLUE, EADS Deutschland, GMVIS SKYSOFT S.A., The Foundation Stichting Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium (NLR), PILDo LABS, TU Dresden, Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse III (UPS), Imperial College of Science, TU BRAUNSCHWEIG.

TWINTIDE : Towards the Integration of Transectorial IT Design and Evaluation

Summary: The main objective of the Action is to harmonise research and practice on design and evaluation methodologies for computing artefacts, across sectors and disciplines. The Action aims to provide harmonization and leadership currently lacking in this field by bringing together researchers and D&E professionals. Their broad experience of D&E methods deployed in different sectors and disciplines enables comparison of method applications, assessing transferability of both established and novel approaches. These collaborative activities in Working Groups and open Workshops will facilitate production of a generic D&E method selection and application framework and scientific publications reaching the wider research community. The Action will also provide young interdisciplinary researchers with systematic training and networking opportunities such as STSMs and Training Schools.

Type: International networking

Sponsor: COST Action IC0904)

Begin: January 2010

Duration: 3 years

Theme: Design and evaluation methods for interactive systems, Usability and user experience, New trends in Human computer interaction, Transferability across sectors and disciplines, Training and networking young interdisciplinary researchers.

Responsible at ICS: Marco Winckler

ICS Members: Philippe Palanque, Marco Winckler (chairs of dissemination activity)

Partners: 24 countries (further information on the web site: http://www.twintide.org/

Past Projects

MyCitizSpace

Summary: This project is devoted to the development of a Personal Information Management Systems allowing citizens to access e-Government services multiple platforms in a seamlessy way. This project is concerned by organization and underlying visibility (privacy) of user data, development process for e-procurement applications, methods for supporting universal access to e-services, modeling and specification of Web-based applications and multi-platform user interfaces.

Type: ANR (National Project)

Sponsor: RNTL (appel d'offre 2007)

Begin: November 2007

Duration: 3 years

Theme: Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS), e-Governement applications, Ubiquitous and Adaptive User Interface.

Responsible at ICS: Marco Winckler

ICS Members: Christelle Farenc and Philippe Palanque

Partners: 4 partners, INRIA Rocquencourt, LIG-Universty Joseph Fourrier, Silcor, Genigraph

MEDIAWeb: MEDIA-Web: Methods for Evaluation and Desig of rich Internet Applications (RIAs)

Summary: This project is devoted to investigation of models, notations and tools to assist designers during the development of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Our goal is to produce: i) a comprehensive investigation of model-based approach for describing RIAs and in particular allowing to describe the distribution of application execution between the web servicer and web browsers; ii) a method and a notation for supporting model-based developpement of RIAs. Such as a method should support all design activities along the life cycle of applications and lead to usable web applications; iii) tools to support the edition and evaluation of model specifications for RIAS.

Type: STIC: International cooperation

Sponsor: SECYT / CNRS-INRIA

Begin: January 2009

Duration: 2 years

Theme: Web Engineering

Responsible: Marco Winckler and Gustavo Rossi

Partners: ICS-IRIT, LIFIA(Argentina)

COST294-MAUSE : Towards the MAturation of Information Technology USability Evaluation

Summary: COST294-MAUSE is a usability research community that is run under the auspices of COST. MAUSE stands for Towards the MAturation of IT USability Evaluation – the overarching theme of the community. The ultimate goal of COST294-MAUSE is to bring more science to bear on Usability Evaluation Methods (UEMs) development, evaluation, and comparison, aiming for results that can be transferred to industry and educators, thus leading to increased competitiveness of European industry and benefit to the public.

Type: COST action (international cooperation network)

Sponsor: COST ESF

Begin: January 2005 Duration: 3 years

URL: http://www.cost294.org/

ReSIST : Resilience for Survivability in Information Society Technologies

Summary: ReSIST is a Network of Excellence that integrates leading researchers active in the multidisciplinary domains of Dependability, Security, and Human Factors, in order that Europe will have a well-focused coherent set of research activities aimed at ensuring that future “ubiquitous computing systems” (the immense systems of ever-evolving networks of computers and mobile devices which are needed to support and provide Ambient Intelligence), have the necessary resilience and survivability, despite any residual development and physical faults, interaction mistakes, or malicious attacks and disruptions.

Type: Network of Excelence

Sponsor: EU's FP6 Work Programme for IST (Information Society Technologies)

Begin: January 2006 Duration: 3 years

URL: http://www2.laas.fr/RESIST/

EDGE : Evaluation methods, Design Guidelines and Environments for Virtual Reality and Information Visualization Techniques

Summary: EDGE is a Franco-Brazilian project dedicated to the investigation of criteria and evaluation methods to assess usability in Virtual Reality (VR) systems and Information Visualization (VIS) techniques. The main goals of this project are:

Identify valuable usability criteria to quality and measure usability in VR and VIS systems;
Define a benchmark for comparing similar interaction techniques;
Investigate the usability of VIS and RV systems supporting collaborative user tasks;

EDGE is supported by the CNPq (Brazil) and INRIA (France). Our partners include the Informatics Institute of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS (Porto Alegre, Brazil) , Department of Informatics of PUC-RIO (Rio de Janeiro,Brazil), the INRIA-Futurs (Orsay, France) and the INRIA-Roquencourt (Roquencourt, France).

Type: International cooperation

Sponsor: CNPq (Brazil) and INRIA (France)

Begin: November 2005 Duration: 2 years

WebAUDIT : Assisted User interface Design of Interactive Teleprocedures on the Web

Summary: This project is concerned by models and techniques supporting the development of teleprocedures with usability. The term teleprocedure is used here to identify an administrative procedure which can be implemented by the means of electronic forms over the Web, following a well-defined workflow process supporting the communication between administrations, organizations, citizens and enterprises. Teleprocedure are complex applications which must ensure the security of information exchange (e.g. authentication of users, date and time, secure transfer of data, etc.), provide an efficient notification system helping all users (i.e. citizens and organizations) to monitor the progress of the process, provide flexible support to complex business rules (which might change according new regulations and laws), support data exchange among several databases and legacy systems, and last (but not least) be accessible and usable for a large public of users. The goal of this project is twofold:

To develop models, methods and techniques to support the specification of teleprocedures. Our aim is to describe a model-based development process which can ensure the non-ambiguous description of requirements driving to safe and feasible implementations.
To develop methods and tools to help end-users to dealt with usable teleprocedures. This aspect must covers the most basic user activities, such as filling-in the forms, as well to guide users throughout the process helping them to monitor the process and to follow-up the inner workflow process. The development of such as a guiding method is also concerned by people with disabilities.

Type: Industrial cooperation

Sponsor: MNRT (CIFRE)

Begin: March 2005 Duration: 3 years

SPIDERWeb : Specification and Prototyping for user Interface Design, Engineering and Re-engineering for the Web

Summary: SPIDER is an international project sponsorized by CAPES and COFECUB (CAPES/COFECUB - 399/02) whose main aim is to support the cooperation among researchers from LIIHS-IRIT (Toulouse, France) and Instituto de Informática-UFRGS (Porto Alegre, Brazil) on the investigation of models, tools and theories about Computer Human Interaction and Web. The main goal of this project is to produce a framework for supporting the developpement of web applications with usability. In the core of this framework are methods to specify web design and describe user interface. We intend to bring together methods from a diversity of fields including: formal methods applied to computer human interaction, web visualization, task modeling, usability evaluation, guidelines and ergonomic rules for web design.

Type: International Cooperation

Sponsor: CAPES/COFECUB (grant n.399/02)

Begin: February 2002 Duration: 4 years

URL: http://liihs.irit.fr/projects/spiderweb/

Last update: September 2010