• MINAmI
Workshop
19 September 2007 - 9.30am - 4.00pm
Free access for the registered participants
to the "Smart Event" (AmI.d, e-Smart,
World e-ID, Smart University) - The number
of seats is limited, please secure your seat and
send back the related registration form.
Usages and Acceptance of Mobile AmI
The MINAmI project invites you to attend a workshop
on the theme Usages and Acceptance of
Mobile AmI. The purpose of the workshop is to
present the concept of mobile AmI from the user’s
point of view: usages that mobile AmI provides
and issues that affect to user acceptance of mobile
AmI.
MINAmI (Micro-Nano integrated platform for transverse
Ambient Intelligence applications) is a European
Commission FP6 supported IP project developing
an open technology platform for mobile phone based
ambient intelligence (mobile AmI). The platform
extends the users’s personal mobile phone
with wireless connections to tags and sensors,
thus enabling access to ambient applications and
services. The platform concept enables a wide
variety of usages for mobile AmI – but what
do the users want and accept? These questions,
which are investigated in the MINAmI project and
the focus of the MINAmI workshop, reflect also
to ambient intelligence and information society
in general.
The morning part of the workshop presents the
concept of mobile-phone centric ambient intelligence
(mobile AmI) as envisioned in the MINAmI project,
and illustrates usages of mobile AmI through MINAmI
scenarios in the application fields of everyday,
healthcare and homecare. The scenarios have been
evaluated by users, and the results tell us about
how people response to mobile AmI and reveal challenges
regarding user acceptance of mobile AmI in different
application fields.
The afternoon part of the workshop continues the
examination of user acceptance of mobile AmI by
considering the technology and its usages especially
from an ethical viewpoint: are there specific
privacy, security, trust, or social challenges
in mobile AmI that would prevent user acceptance
of the technology and applications? How can these
be resolved? Experts on ethics of ICT, eHealth,
information society etc. will participate in a
panel discussion on critical ethical obstacles
to user acceptance of mobile AmI and solutions
to these.
For
more information, please click
here
• MESURE
User Group (upon
invitation)
20 September 2007 - 2.30pm - 4.30pm
The funded project MESURE (Java Card features
benchmarking) will meet for the second time its
User Group. The meeting brings together Java Card
technology providers, silicon manufacturers, smart
card manufacturers, integrators, large user and
organization.
MESURE is a project whose goal is to set up an
"Open benchmark for Java Card technology".
The project launched last year will present the
methodology used to measure the performances and
to evaluate the characteristics of Java Card platforms
regarding the benchmark requirements.
The second part of the meeting will proceed to
some demonstrations using the set of tools that
have been developed. The performance tests will
be carried out according to distinct profiles
and will result in a reference scale which can
be used to compare products from a performance
point of view
.
For
more information, please visit http://mesure.gforge.inria.fr
