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Preparatory WorkshopPreparatory WorkshopBrussels, 13 April 2005Brussels, 13 April 2005

SO 2.5.9 “Collaborative Working Environments”

6th EU Framework Programme for Research

Isidro Laso BallesterosIST Programme


SO Collaborative Working Environments. Goal

To develop next generation collaborative working environments (NGCWE), thereby • increasing creativity and • boosting innovation and • productivity.

NGCWE will enable seamless and natural collaboration amongst a diversity of agents (humans, machines-robots, etc).


NGCWE will be:• distributed, • knowledge-rich and • virtualized working environments.

Professional virtual communities and nomadic personal access to knowledge should be supported.

SO Collaborative Working Environments. Characteristics of NGCWE


• NGCWE environments should provide collaboration services to make possible the development of worker centric, flexible, scalable and adaptable tools and applications.

SO Collaborative Working Environments. Objective

Collaboration services

Collaboration environments

Collaboration tools

Applications for collaboration


SO Collaborative Working EnvironmentsWhere are we positioned at?

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Research and development activities on NGCWE

• Theoretical research: Collaborative Working methods

• Research and development on Core Services for collaboration

• System integration into collaboration tools

• Development of complex applications

• Support for internationally agreed reference architecture for CWE


Research and development activities on Next Generation Collaboration Working

Environments. Medium-term and Long-term perspectives

• Medium-term activities (horizon 2010): within the

Strategic Objective 2.5.9 of the IST FP6.

• Transition activities: Part of the projects to be

launch during 2.5.9 IST FP6 Strategic Objective

will ensure a smooth transition towards FP7.

• Long-term activities (Horizon 2015): During FP7.


Work to be done within SO 2.5.9

Validating Applications

Core (crucial) Services for distributed collaboration at work

Tools for collaborative tasks

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Group identification

Synchronization and Persistence of

Distributed workspaces

Group Traceability

Group resources Discovery and allocation.

Augmented group

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Service composition

Visualisation

COLLABORATION TOOLS

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VALIDATING APPLICATIONS

Collaborative Work Environment providingcore collaboration services:

Digital representation of physical objectsGroup

Security

Environmentawareness

Semantic ModellingOf Groups

Sharing support


1st Focal Layered task:Theoretical research (I)

• Methods and concepts to:• To reduce failures in diverse teams in

particular when the cultural diversity is high..

• To improve work practices in Collaborative Working Environments. (“Innovative workplace practices in manufacturing accounted for as much as 89% of the growth in ‘multifactor productivity’, i.e. beyond ICT increases”. San Francisco Fed, 2004)


1st Focal Layered task:Research and development on Services

Components (II)• Research and development of service

components for collaboration to complement existing middleware and platforms, such as:• synchronisation and persistence of distributed group

workspaces; • discovery and allocation of group resources;• group identification, traceability and security; • management and interfacing between groups of

physical materials and digital representations; • and environment group awareness, with a special

emphasis on mobility. • This Services Components will deliver a high

quality experience to co-workers based on flexible management of services and should be customizable to different communities, making use of different (mobile) devices.


2nd focal layered task: Research on tools for collaborative

work• Bringing together core services into

collaboration tools• These tools will offer sophisticated services.• Focus on:

• Group management,• Visualization services,• Augmented group presence,• Sharing support,• Seamless interaction,• Semantic modeling of complex groups of workers,• Service composition.


3nd focal layered task: Development of Complex applications (I)

• In ICT-rich domains mentioned in the text:• Collaborative design and engineering, in particular

rapid prototyping and simulation in the context of virtual manufacturing;

• Collaboration in media/content production workers;

• Collaboration among e-Professionals;• Collaboration with and among knowledge and

information workers in remote and rural settings.• e-Training for collaborative and remote workers

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Innovative validating applications for collaborative work in content-rich, mobile and fixed collaborative environments


3nd focal layered task: Development of Complex applications (II)

• Cross domain fertilization domain would enrich these applications

• These applications should leverage, where appropriate, on experience from collaborative games (disruptive approaches)


Other tasks (I)

• To promote joint research activities with national programmes,

• To define future research agendas,• To identify emerging topics and

research groups world wide.


Other tasks (II)

• To achieve internationally agreed reference architecture for collaborative work (guidelines), including core components providing seamless collaboration.

• Through Collaboration with international research and standardization activities.

• Build on international RTD activities in particular USA, Canada, Korea and japan

• Linked to international standardisation activities, including W3C and IETF.


S.O. 2.5.9 Instruments for layer

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SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (I)SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (I)

• Budget: 70% (around €30 Mio)• Integrated, goal-oriented R&D:

• Cut across the 3 layered focal tasks, including Work on:

• innovative concepts and methods, • core collaboration services, • tools for collaboration, AND • validation on testbeds and large demonstrators.

• Critical mass is required to have impact

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SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (II)SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (II)

• Tasks: • Clustering and coordination of activities among the IPs in order to achieve a common ‘upper layer’ Collaborative Work Platform and to avoid overlapping in the development of tools for collaborations.• To contribute to ERA activities with National and

regional funding agencies.

• To contribute to achieve internationally agreed reference architecture for collaborative work by:

• Knowledge creation

• Workshops, committes, etc.

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SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (III)SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (III)

• Application domains: The ICT-rich domains mentioned in the official text are:

1. collaborative design and engineering, in particular rapid prototyping and simulation, virtual manufacturing;

2. Media/content production, 3. e-Professionals and 4. knowledge and information workers in

remote and rural settings

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SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (IV)SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (IV)

• The use of Experience and Application Research (EAR) approach is encouraged.

• EAR is defined by the ISTAG: they are designed for an early involvememnt of users and to create links to structures, business processes and workplace practices of the organisations.

• Examples of EARs budget: 700,000 €

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SO 2.5.9. SO 2.5.9. Targeted RTD ProjectsTargeted RTD Projects

• Only in the 1st and 2nd layers.• Tasks:

• To explore emerging alternatives to pave the way for additional technological advances in the field.• Disrupting approaches are encouraged. For example:

• Is there an alternative to Semantic web more adequate to collaborative work?

• To investigate ICT-bio, ICT-cogno and ICT-nano convergence in the context of New Working Environments.

• To explore human robotics working environments.

• To extrapolate collaborative games experience to collaborative work




STREP

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• Aim:• to promote and support the networking

and coordination of research and innovation activities needed for European leadership in ICT-enabled Collaborative Working Environments.

SO 2.5.9. SO 2.5.9. Co-ordination Activities and Co-ordination Activities and Specific Support Actions (I)Specific Support Actions (I)




Tools for collaborative tasksCA/SSA


SO 2.5.9. SO 2.5.9. Co-ordination Activities and Co-ordination Activities and Specific Support Actions (II)Specific Support Actions (II)

• Tasks:• To ensure that the work is consistent across IPs

and STREPs.• To promote joint research activities with

national programmes, to define future research agendas or to identify emerging topics and research groups world-wide.

• Collaboration with international research and standardisation activities to achieve internationally agreed reference architecture for collaborative work.




Tools for collaborative tasksCA/SSA


• Actions targeting SMEs developing collaborative tools and application are encouraged (2nd and 3rd layers)

• Aim:• To achieve better interoperability of

complementary services and tools.• To leverage on innovative SMEs.

SO 2.5.9. SO 2.5.9. SMEs SMEs


• Aim:• To complement the ERA pilot project on

CWE launched in the call 3.• strengthen and complement research

carried out under ESA, EUREKA and national initiatives.

• In particular, links to Eureka ITEA projects related to Nomadic and Cyber-Enterprise domain applications should be described to assess synergies and inter-dependencies in terms of timing and funding.

SO 2.5.9. SO 2.5.9. ERA activities ERA activities


For More Information...For More Information...

• Main source of information: www.amiatwork.comIncludes:• Workshops on CWE.• Collaboration @ Work Expert Group (CWEG):

• 1st Report on NGCWE vision and ICT challenges• 2nd Report on Applications scenarios for NGCWE

• Advisory group• Research papers and project results.

• Web Ring of CWE related projects (If you want to be incorporated to this web ring, please send an email to: [email protected]

with copy to [email protected])• SO EC contact person: Isidro Laso-Ballesteros

• [email protected]

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