Research
The NEMO project focus on two fundamental research themes, each one of which highlighting a particular area of innovation:
- Embedded activity models. The first research theme focuses on investigation of embedded activity models for in-situ decision making. The goal is to enable physical entities to recognize work activities they are involved in, to interpret these with respect to their safety-critical nature, and if necessary to inform the human operator about dangerous or unwanted situations. In effect, we want to turn physical entities into an active knowledge source for human actors who perform safety-critical work activities.
- Life-long entity memories. The second theme focuses on investigation of life-long memories associated with physical tools, artefacts and goods – addressing but re-interpreting the UK Grand Challenge ‘Memories for Life’. The goal is to enable physical entities to capture, process, and share their ‘experiences’ to facilitate long-term analysis of individual and collective activity patterns.
These themes are investigated from four perspectives:
- Context sensing and awareness: models and systems for cooperative sensing and reasoning about work activities
- Networking and communication: techniques and systems for context-aware and self optimizing ad hoc networks
- Human factors: implications of deployment and use of ubiquitous activity systems on human perception and performance
- Management and organizational theory: potential and impact of ubiquitous sensing and computing in organizations