ASTRA

Info

Title Awareness Services and Systems- Towards theory and ReAlization

Acronym ASTRA

Framework FET Open

Project Number 29266

Start – End Date 01/06/2006 – 31/10/2009

Duration 41 months

Instrument / Type FET

Funding Agency European Union’s Information Society Technologies programme (IST-FET)

Total Project Funding1.900.000,00 €

Project Homepage http://daisy.cti.gr/astra-project/

Status Completed

Description

ASTRA examines mediated interpersonal awareness, addressing the need to stay in touch with family and friends or the need to be reassured regarding their well-being. Important aspects of communication are examined, such as connectedness or plausible denial of presence, with the ultimate aim to define a framework for supporting the design of Pervasive Awareness systems intended to support social relationships. The framework consists of:

A theory to guide the design and the evaluation of pervasive awareness systems for supporting social communication
Supporting technology (service oriented architecture, tools and applications that support communities to appropriate Pervasive Awareness applications)

Project Outcomes

To develop an integrated “theory of connectedness and awareness”
To develop a descriptive model and a design theory/framework for awareness mechanisms
To design an integrated service oriented architecture and implement a platform for supporting end-user development of awareness systems
To design and develop a set of tools that will support the composition of awareness applications by end-users
To develop proof-of-concept awareness applications by end-user communities using the experimental ASTRA technology