ICING Objectives
ICING has set itself a number of high level objectives to be met over the lifetime of the project.
O1: To research the impact of social and human factors on ways of creating ‘e-Communities’ and the usability of e-Government services based on intelligent environments, to be achieved by work with users in WP2 ‘Research into eCommunity and Usability of eGovernment Services’ and measured by the evaluation of user interfaces and response to services.
O2: To design and test intelligent urban environments, with embedded microchip, sensor, positional, communications and display technologies as the basis for providing better services to all citizens, by developing functional requirements in WP3, environmental access and structures in WP4, the Urban Mediator in WP5, and test-beds in WP8.
O3: To define citizen-led services that increase social involvement and inclusion through the use of intelligent environments and the tighter integration between city and communications infrastructures, by developing requirements and scenarios in WP3.
O4: To create a citizen-driven, evolving social software interface to the city through the development of an Urban Mediator, and through building links between it and the cities’ other systems, in WP5.
O5: To develop universal access gateways and interfaces for citizens to the City services, systems and environment through the use of commodity technologies such as mobile telephones, television and IP, hand-held devices, residential gateways or public access points to provide availability on the move, in the city environment or at home by researching access modes and simplified communications in WP4, supported by spatial-based systems developed in WP6, and gateways in WP7.
O6: To develop interactive, location-based, and web-accessible tools for process modelling, decision support and environmental modification, based on feedback from citizens and the environment, with geospatial technologies by RTD in WP4 and WP6, integrated with City systems in WP7.
O7: To install and validate Testbeds incorporating social software, multimodal access gateways, sensor and communications networks, location-based support systems and City technology platforms in high-profile city locations as means of researching, evaluating and demonstrating technologies and services by designing and integrating technology platforms and interfaces in WP7, setting up communications systems and Testbeds in WP8 and evaluating them in WP10.
O8: To evaluate the usability and usefulness of the technologies and services, with particular reference to social and human factors, in trials with significant sample groups of users in the Evaluation work package WP10.
O9: To publicise and disseminate results to city administrations, professional communities and citizen’ groups, to raise awareness and develop appropriate training to further the development and implementation of intelligent city services through the Dissemination activities in WP9.
O10: To create a roadmap for the exploitation of results through real services, development of public policy and future research directions, and the conduct of further RTD, contributing to the standardisation process and developing exploitation plans by the technology providers, system integrators and public administrations through the Exploitation planning activities in WP9.
