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ExpeShare partners develop technology for capturing and sharing experiences
29.10.2007
European research partners in Finland, France, Spain and Italy have started a project, ExpeShare, that develops concepts and technologies for capturing and sharing experiences securely, legally and in a simple way.
You are having the time of your life: skiing, visiting a picturesque village
or attending an interesting conference or concert. It’s so great that you
would like your friends to know how it feels. Not to mention you’d like to
relive it later. How to convey this experience to others? Why is it so
difficult to capture the moment and pass it on for others to enjoy?
The
challenge of the ExpeShare project (2007 – 2009) is to make sharing of the
experience easy and secure, right where and when it happens. Therefore novel
concepts and networking technologies will be created in the project to
facilitate sharing of information between mobile devices such as mobile
phones, MP3s, DVD players, memory sticks and digital cameras. The project goes
beyond web-based sharing of digital multimedia content such as pictures,
videos, music and games. It will achieve its goals by innovative mobile
peer-to-peer networking solutions, multimedia content and community management
facilities as well as interaction solutions that utilise a variety of devices.
Experience
is a complex phenomenon that goes beyond the picture or video clip that can
easily be captured. The project will attempt to define this concept of
experience and develop intuitive tools for capturing, managing, sharing and
replaying experiences. Selecting the peer(s) or community with whom to share
is another issue requiring innovative interactive solutions.
Peer-to-peer
networks suffer from an image of illegality. They are, however, efficient
means for distributing information. The ExpeShape project will take the
peer-to-peer networking paradigm to the mobile world, while also suggesting
ways to secure the legality of the exchanged content. Special attention will
be given to the management of content rights and understanding the associated
value chains.
The project will set up real-world pilots to
evaluate the developed concepts. The pilot environments may be e.g. tourist
areas, sports centres, public spaces and events or professional meetings.
The
ExpeShare project, coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland,
involves 22 partners from four European countries together contributing an
effort of more than 150 man years spread over two years. The project is
currently in its starting phase, and is due to end in June 2009. The project
resorts under the Eureka ITEA programme.
The following
companies and research organisations take part in the ExpeShare project:
Brieftec, CBT, CCRTV, CityPassenger, Engineering, Gemalto, GET-INT, Innovalia,
INRIA, Kutalab, Movial, Nextel, Nokia, NXP Semiconductors, Software Quality
Systems, Telefonica I+D, Transatel, University of Evry, University of Oulu,
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, University of Rome - La Sapienza and VTT
Technical Research Centre of Finland.
http://www.vtt.fi/virtual/expeshare