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Freeband and IIPIC on ICTDelta

Freeband and IIPIC join forces at the ICTDelta conference in Utrecht on May 8, 2008. Demonstrators of the AAF First responder Network (including the FIGO product) and the BBPhotonics FlexPoN network are shown....

14 february 2008: IIP Intelligent Communication officially supported by ICTRegie

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Effective Interaction with mobile devices and services

MobileHCI, the leading conference in the field of human computer interaction with mobile devices and services, takes place in Amsterdam from 2-5 September 2008. This forum provides a platform to discuss challenges and solutions for effective interaction with mobile devices and services. Covering a broad list of topics like smart clothes and mobile entertainment this conference appeals to a broad audience. The call for submissions - papers, workshops, demos, industrial case studies, etc. - is now open. Freeband Communication sponsors this conference. More info: www.mobilehci2008.org.

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Living Lab cube

Living lab approaches are a key research topic in Freeband. The cube below symbolizes the various aspects of Living Labs in Freeband.

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Succesfull workshop IIPIC, 21st of September

Friday 21st of September, a successfull kick-off workshop for the ICT Innovation Platform Intelligent Communication took place at the Telematica Instituut. Thirty people from different kinds of industries came together to brainstorm about the strategic researchagenda and governance of the platform, initiated by Freeband.
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Innovating together in Intelligent Communication creates solid ground for own marketopportunities.

Kick-off ICT Innovationplatform Intelligent Communication

On september 21st starts the kickoff of het ICT Innovationplatform (IIP) in Intelligent Communication. This IIP targets to create an open joint venture between researchers, companies en public organisations and users in order to promote economic and societal innovations. Would your company tlike o become actively involved in the creation of this IIP? Please subscribe via: www.iipic.nl

Freeband Communication initiates and coordinates this IIP.

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Freeband at eChallenges 2007

The fifth eChallenges conference will be held in The Hague from 24-26 October 2007, where more than six hundred delegates from European companies, governmental institutions and research facilities will gather to exchange ideas and compare notes on applied ICT research. The eChallenges conference is the seventeenth event organised by the European Commission to stimulate the broader application of research results with corporations and governments.
Freeband will present itself with presentations during the conference. On our booth you will find more information on the Freebandprojects Frux and Tumcat.

More info: www.echallenges.org/e2007

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Start IIP Intelligent Communication

At the ICTDelta Innovation Congress on 22 and 23 May 2007 Freeband launched, in co-operation with ICTRegie, the Freeband ICT InnovationPlatform (IIP) “Intelligent Communication”.

This platform will focus on identifying opportunities for innovation, developing national research agenda’s and programmes in the field of intelligent communication and stimulating research and development. Smart communication solutions are the foundation for a wide range of innovations in work processes, services and wellbeing of people in The Netherlands Ltd. With the diversity and specific context of people, organizations and companies as starting point. In other words: user-central. More information: www.iipic.nl

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Freeband Ambient Communication Event 2007

FACE 2007 (28th of June) was a productive day with many interesting presentations, ideas and discussions. Before the event we asked all members of the community to send us their visions and presentations on future topics of Freeband. We invited 6 of them to present their ideas at FACE 2007.

We also invited two keynote speakers to share their thoughts with us. Emiel Aarts (Philips Research) told us everything about the future of Ambient Computing and Prof Ir. Ton Koonen (TU Eindhoven) presented the subject ‘Bring Broadband to the users’. There was a lot of emphasis on the business and user side within Freeband. Both Emiel Aarts and Mark Steen adressed these issues in their presentations.
This led to an interesting discussion about which parties should be asked to participate in the Freeband community. Another interesting subject, Smart Environments, was put forward by Emil Aarts, Bob Hulsebosch and Henk Eertink. The presentation of Mark Steen was labeled ‘best’ by public vote. Henk Eertink and Bob Hulsebosch came in a good second and third.
We continued the discussion on the future topics of Freeband during the first workshop at 21 September as a part of the ICT Innovation Platform ‘Intelligent Communication’, which was launched at ICT Delta 2007.

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ICTDelta

Op 22 en 23 mei 2007 vond 'ICTDelta, het ICT-Innovatiecongres' plaats in het Beatrix Theater, Jaarbeurs Utrecht. ICTDelta is bedoeld om verschillende partijen, die innovatie met ICT hoog in het vaandel hebben staan, dichter bij elkaar te brengen om nieuwe ontwikkelingen te delen, kennis en ervaringen uit te wisselen. Freeband heeft binnen de thema’s technologische innovatie en innovatieve toepassingen van ICT diverse workshops en lezingen gegeven. De bezoekers van de ICT- innovatiemarkt konden bij de stand van Freeband diverse demo’s van recente projecten bekijken. De projecten A-Muse, PNP2008, I-Share, Awareness, Frux en Tumcat hebben in verschillende demonstraties de laatste ontwikkelingen getoond.

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Visit to Ericsson in Rijen

Visit to Ericsson in Rijen to discuss future research topics for Freeband.

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Visit to Noldus in Wageningen

Noldus is a new Freeband partner that joined the Freeband TUMCAT project in 2006. Noldus is specialised in measurements on human-computer interactions. In TUMCAT, this is extended into the mobile domain, i.e. the domain of mobile applications and devices. This is a new, interesting field, since mobile users are not bound to specific environments, and the context of application and device usage changes, and hence the interaction patterns and there appreciations.

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Living Lab Corelabs meeting in Hasselt (Be)

Michael Börjeson, Corelabs project coordinator explaining state of affairs in Enoll, the first wave of Living Labs in Europe. Patrick Strating, Freeband project director, held a presentation on the Freeband approach to the Living Lab instrument, explaining that in world of rapid mobile service development, living lab instruments are extremely valuable.

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Awareness plenary meeting at Ericsson

On march 8, the Freeband Awareness project held a plenary meeting at the Ericsson premises in Rijen. Keynote speaker was Edwin van der Star from Vitaphone company, giving a very interesting talk about the difficulties and possibilities of creating commercial telemonitoring services in healthcare.

Also interesting was a talk by Erwin Fielt, explaining the juridical boundaries for context-aware applications. Basically, context awareness is about generating and using knowledge about a subject user, while privacy laws aim at restricting knowledge generation about specific users. The discussions showed that possible problems are likely to be solved one way or another, but that this will not be without discussions or technical adaptations.

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Freeband Care Event 2007

Finding the balance between patient safety and the ability of a patient to manage for himself through intelligent communication was the theme of the 2007 Care event by Freeband. The event was jointly organized by the Academic Hospital UMC Utrecht and Freeband, and was located in the hospital itself. The day was visited by a mix of technical people, care takers, insurers, government and consultant. A great mix, resulting in good discussions.

The chairman of the event, prof. Cor Kalkman of the UMC, led the audience through an interactive program with both plenary and group sessions. In the first plenary session Cor Kalkman and Patrick Strating started the discussion by outlined the challenges and question that they had from their on expertise field. The gap between current practices and possibilities in for furture improvement by technology was enlivened d by an enactment of an epileptic seizure. Frightening realistic.

In groups people were shown three examples of 4G and Care in Freeband from the Awareness, PNP2008 and Frux project. Discussion in these sessions was vivid and constructive. The group leaders summarized the discussion afterwards in the following plenary session.

The keynote speaker, Dr. Paul Barach, arriving with only 20 minutes delay directly from the US, emphasized on the consequences of new technologies. Inspired by the approach of the ‘Bauhaus’ group he advocated ‘aggressive usability’. Let people understand what they are doing, don’ hide critical process knowledge, from the user by computer systems. Only by understanding the consequences of new technologies and having the accepted by users, new technologies can find their way in the health sector in a successful and patient safe manner.

I think this day showed that Freeband is working on relevant technology research and development. But are we working on the good care applications, are we putting the rights emphasis? With the feedback and newly acquired contacts I hope Freeband will further improve the direct applicability of the Freeband 4G concepts and technologies in the health sector.

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I-Share Plenary Workshop

On wednesday February 14 the I-Share project organised their yearly plenary workshop. In the morning various speakers updated the attendees about the status of their work in Ishare. The progress in the research areas is quite impression and also shows potential business relevance. As you can see in the pictures, business opportunities are explicitely considered in the various tracks. Peter de With presented a P2P mechanism for streaming video which is currently further exploited in a spin-off company. On a question concerning the relevance, he answered: " There are so many business applications. Don't forget that the Internet in Seoul gets completely clogged the moment the team of Guus Hiddink plays."

After the break a poster session and demonstrations further gave the opportunity to discuss about the details of the work and to see and feel the ideas in practice.

All in all a very interesting workshop.

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Freeband New Year's Event

On Tuesday January 23, 2007, Freeband organises its New Year's event at the brand new Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum.

The program starts with a mix of short presentations by entrepreneurs from the Dutch media sector and by Freeband on innovations and bridging the digital divide. These presentations will be followed by interactive discussions. In addition, Freeband will provide participants admission to the Sound and Vision experience, before or after the plenary program. Some Freeband-projects will organize their own project-specific meetings at the Media Park in the morning .

This event can only be attended, if you're part of the Freeband Community.

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Freeband Communication and University Medical Centre Utrecht present: �??Customized Care and Distant Care�??, February 21st.

Healthcare is changing. With patients in the driving seat, care evolves around them in stead of the other way round. As social services ‘by remote control’ become available, caretakers in various locations stay tuned to their clients needs through multidisciplinary deliberation. The use of intelligent communications technologies makes it work. But does it work for them? Are patients and caretakers willing to take the consequences? And who will be guarding patient’s safety?

The national research program Freeband Communication and the University Medical Centre Utrecht will provide some of the answers at this event. Apart form the latest insights and developments, various challenges of future care will be adressed.

More information: www.freeband.nl/zorgevent2007

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