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IN THIS ISSUE:

Introduction

Work Packages

Progress

Latest Events

The Smarcos newsletter covers the consortium activities around

the project. This second issue reviews Smarcos progress within

its first six months of development.

Introduction

The Smarcos project aims to help users of interconnected

embedded systems by ensuring their interusability. Our results will

be applicable to all embedded systems that interact with their

users, which is a substantial fraction of today’s market.

The first Smarcos semester has just finished and all work packages

are in good progress. It is worth mentioning that all scheduled

deliverables have been completed on time and the planned

milestones have been achieved.

This 2nd issue presents the status of the project at mid September

2010 by describing the key accomplishments of each work

package.

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Work Packages Progress

WP1: Design Methods and Concepting.

WP1 has completed its first goal by

producing D.1.1 “Initial Smarcos

Requirements” in order to set the basis

for the rest of the work in Smarcos. They

are now busy with a study on the current

use of UI design methodologies in Smarcos-

related industries. This study will be used as

an input in D1.2 “Prevailing UI design

methodologies for interconnected

embedded systems.” The study has been

divided into 2 main sections, first a set of

interviews with relevant practitioners and

then a more wide-spread survey based on

the topics that have come up in the

interviews.

WP2: Interface, Interaction and

Context Modelling. This work package has

mainly focused on preparing their first

deliverable, D2.1 “Requirements &

specifications for interusable UI models

and context”. It outlines requirements and

specifications for modeling. It is composed

based on the analysis on Initial Smarcos

requirements and knowledge on models: UI,

tasks, and contexts.

WP3: Tools for Runtime UI & Context

Composition. This work package has

focused on the deliverable D3.1

“Requirements for runtime methods

and tools” that identifies key requirements

and technical enablers for realising context-

aware systems in runtime environments. It

is based on analysis of initial Smarcos

requirements. We target runtime facilities

that ultimately allow for always-on

operation for a significant fraction of user-

oriented mobile devices.

WP4: Attentive Personal Systems. This

work package has concentrated on

compiling initial use cases and business

models of the project. The report, D4.1

“Initial use cases and business

models”, will serve as a basis for deriving

concrete user and system requirements and

will identify service-oriented models and

business impact of the deployed use cases.

A workshop was held in Eindhoven where

12 scenarios for behaviour change were

generated. Cards from the 'Design with

Intent' method were used as inspiration.

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WP5: Interusable Devices. Although this

work package did not have to deliver any

report within the first six months, they

make a joining effort to organise a

productive workshop where the first two

deliverables were discussed and will soon be

released. In addition, each partner has

made an effort to deliver a total of 11 initial

concept ideas and 11 further defined

scenarios, which outline the scope of the

WP5 work in the future.

- 5.1. Requirements and design notes

for interoperable devices

WP5 is currently evaluating and

selecting the three most promising

scenarios. The requirements and design

notes are derived from these selected

scenario definitions and reported in the

D5.1.

- 5.2. Initial Concepts of Large Scale

Trial

The basis for this deliverable was

created in an intense workshop arranged

by Fjord in London 7th and 8th of

September 2010. The result of the

workshop is an extensive set of concept

ideas which are reported in D5.2.

WP6: Complex systems control. WP6 has

focused efforts on task D6.1, where

partners have combined efforts and keep

each other informed of advances through

periodic tele-meetings. Aspects of D6.2

have also been studied up front. Upcoming

deliverables are expected in due time by the

end of the first year.

WP7: Exploitation and dissemination.

This work package initially concentrated on

designing, developing and updating the

Smarcos Public Website

( http://www.smarcos-project.eu/ ) that

also hosts our Collaborative Project

Portal. This WP has also produced the first

two issues of the Smarcos Newsletter and

other promotion materials, such as leaflets

and posters.

WP7 has completed three deliverables:

- D.7.1 Project Website (Public and

Internal)

- D.7.2 Dissemination Plan I

- D.7.8 Exploitation Plan I

WP7 is currently focused on the first

dissemination report and targeting more

activities in order to boost dissemination

and communication.

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Latest Events

SMARCOS within Mobile HCI 2010 Date: 7th – 10th September, 2010 Location: Lisbon, Portugal url: http://mobilehci2010.di.fc.ul.pt/index.html

Smarcos has been promoted at the 12th International Conference on HCI with Mobile Devices and Services. CNR-ISTI gave a tutorial session on

adaptation and continuity in multi-device environments.

SMARCOS 2nd Workshop: focus on WP5 Date: 6th – 8th September, 2010 Location: London, England / Organizer: FJORD

A productive seminar took place at the Fjord headquarters, a vast amount of ideas and concepts were delivered for the initial definition of the large scale trial.

SMARCOS within 2010 ARTEMIS Summer Camp Event Date: 9th – 10th June 2010

Location: Rome, Italy url: https://www.artemisia-association.org/summer_camp_2010_home

Smarcos project was presented within this Summer Camp and actively contributed to the discussion on the directions for ARTEMIS Multi-annual Strategic Planning, Research Agenda and Annual Working Plan for 2011.

This newsletter is published

every six months. It informs

the members of the Smarcos

and the general public about

the progress of the project.

Contact:

Dr. Pertti J. Huuskonen

pertti.huuskonen@nokia.com

Any questions or suggestions?

Please contact us!

http://www.smarcos-project.eu/

Future Events

SMARCOS Consortium

Autumn Meeting Date: 6th – 7th October, 2010 Location: Madrid, Spain

ARTEMIS & ITEA

Co-summit Event Date: 26th – 27th October, 2010 Location: Ghent, Belgium

SMARCOS 1st Workshop: focus on WP1 Date: 16th – 17th May 2010 Location: Oulu, Helsinki / Organizer: VTT/VALVE WP1 1st Smarcos Workshop achieved the expected goals, giving a great impulse to WP1 main objective, through different working sessions;

concepts, design challenges and first requirements were presented, detailed and defined.

SMARCOS within Model-Based User Interfaces´ Workshop Date: 13th – 14th May 2010

Location: Rome, Italy url: http://www.w3.org/2010/02/mbui/cfp.html

Smarcos was described as one of the most interesting projects regarding its future contributions to Model-Based UIs and there has been a great interest in involving Smarcos on the next Model-Based UIs´ Workshop

planned activities.