Section: Other Grants and Activities

Regional Initiatives

Due to the bi-localization of the team, we are involved with two regions: PACA and Ile-de-France. We were this year very active both in two regions,

• in Paca:a new PREDIT project TIC-TAC starting in 2010 (Sophia Antipolis), 3 Pacalabs proposals, living lab “ICT Usage Lab” and numerous contacts with innovation actors, CEFH, a lot of contacts with regional SMEs and territories

• and in Ile de France: a new Web 2.0 project SCAR starting in 2010 (Paris) and 2 FUI9 proposals.

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Living Lab “ICT Usage Lab”

Participants : Brigitte Trousse, Bernard Senach.

AxIS has pursued with current founding partners (Orange Labs, INRIA, CSTB, UNSA) the setting up of the Living lab.”ICT Usage Lab” (Sophia-Antipolis) who was labelled during the first wave by the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) in 2006 and was the first French living lab. A booklet, a flyer and a web site are under construction. Several contacts have been set up to extend the current partnership (SAP, GFI, City Of Nice, SCS and pegase clusters, Fing,..) and to decide the legal entity.

Several invited talks related to the living lab “ICT Usage Lab” have been done:

• at the working days Open Innovation & Living Labs organised by the ICT Mission of PACA Regional Council.(6-7 April, Marseille): B. Trousse & R. Decorme of CSTB (with B. Senach and S. Crave of Orange Labs).

• at the administration committee of the Telecom valley association,, june 9: B. Trousse with B. Senach and S. Crave (Orange Labs).

• at the innovation commission of the Telecom Valley association: B. Trousse, B. Senach, V. Giraudon (Orange Labs) and R. Decorme (CSTB).

• at ICE conference, workshop COINS, Noordwyck, Nederlands, june 24: B. Trousse with B. Senach [55] .

Locally several meetings have been conducted in order to coordinate activities of several research teams involved in SHS from UNSA and Telecom ParisTech related to usage analysis and open innovation in the context of the Campus STIC.

We collaborate with Mediterranée Technologies and the other Paca living lab TPmed to write down a position paper "La voix des LL en PACA"

At the national level, the ICT Usage Lab organised the second national meeting of french living labs which was hosted at CSTB in Sophia Antipolis the 14th of april. It was an opportunity to set up a cartography of the elevent current french living labs.

Several contacts have been established in order to answer to different calls for proposals:

• with other living labs in France and in Europe for the FP7-ICT call 5: three proposals (Fireball, UDIHouse, Elliot) were submitted (cf. section  8.3.1 ).

• with SMEs and academic partners for the Pacalabs call 2. Three proposals were submitted (cf. section  8.1.2 ),

• with the Inria EPI Lognet for the INTERREG IV ALCOTRA proposal called MyMed (resp. L. Liquori). This proposal has been accepted.

• with Fing and Ademe for the Inria Color call in order to initialize a collaboration related to the design by citizens of innovative services based on public data (such as environmental data): the proposal is called CDISOD (CDISOD: Citizen Driven Innovation Services based on Open data).

The ICT Usage Lab will organize the 1st LL Summer school in Sophia Antipolis which will be held in August 2010. Inria will be in charge of the local organisation.

PacaLabs Initiative

Participants : Bernard Senach, Brigitte Trousse.

The Regional Council has launched the Pacalabs initiative for supporting experimentations of innovative services (from SMEs) or exploratory ideas (from academic world) with real users.

B. Trousse belonged to the expert committee of the Pacalabs Call 1 and to the strategic committee of the Pacalabs orientation of the Regional Council.

AxIS participated in three proposals to the Pacalabs call 2 (under review)

• ECOFFICES is an eco-challenge within an enterprise. Some offices are equipped with sensors and feed back concerning energy consumption is provided. The goal of the project is to provoke behavioural changes. In this project our team is in charge of the evaluation phase: usage data concerning actions on actuators will be registered and employee behaviour will be tracked.

• TAC-VAL is a project conducted with the SME Ivès which provides guidance to disabled people. In collaboration with the town council, we will establish a "usability diagnosis" of the urban space in a small town (Valbonne), finding out the problems that disabled encounter on their way to their affairs. In this project, our team will provide a methodological assistance to set up experiments

• HOTEL-REF-PACA: this project is conducted with Perferencement an SME specialized in web site referencing. This project aims at improving hinterland tourism. Experiments of different new referencing rules will be conducted with Web site visitors in order to study their effect on behavioural changes and touristic choices.

FOCUS Platform (PACA CPER TELIUS)

Participants : Brigitte Trousse, Bernard Senach, Yves Lechevallier.

In 2007, in a framework agreement between french government and PACA territory (CPER Telius), AxIS proposed the creation of an experimentation platform FOCUS (Finding Out Collective Usage). This proposal was accepted and in 2008 AxIS received funding for buying equipments useful for future experiments in the Region. The FOCUS platform is dedicated to researchers interested in usage analysis, such as web usage, co-conception, user centred pilots in real life (scale 1) or experiments in laboratories contexts. Support offered to computer science community and industrial concerned by usage assessment, prototype validation and benchmarking will help them to improve practice in analyzing usage data.

The FOCUS platform relies on knowledge bases, data sets, data acquisition devices, software toolbox and specific methods for mining usage data. The FOCUS platform is composed of two levels:

Data knowledge level is composed of:

• Data sets and benchmarks. The benchmarks available with the platform are well controlled data set that will be used by researchers to validate their analysis techniques,

• Experience data base: previous experimental results and conclusions in analyzing collective usage, past analysis cases for supporting new ones,

• Knowledge base: EAR methods, best practice, assessment criteria, recommendations, collective activities models.

Tool level is composed of devices and software resources:

• Data acquisition tools: audio and video devices, advances tape recorder to synchronize heterogeneous data, eye-trackers, sounds to catch web usage,

• KDD toolbox: clustering and data stream mining algorithms, XML document checking,

• Experience reuse and IR support: object oriented framework for case based reasoning.

Stakeholders in FOCUS platform are coming from different disciplines: computer and social sciences (cognitive ergonomics, economy, sociology) which provide a very interesting confrontation of points of view and enriches usage analysis, for instance through multidisciplinary assessment criteria.

This year we bought material: 10 labtops for experiments, 1 eye-tracker, This material has been used by two Inria research projets: Arobas team project used one of our labtop for an advanced robotic project and Edelweiss an another one for eye-tracking research.

CEFH

Participants : Bernard Senach, Brigitte Trousse.

The CEFH plateform (Centre d'Etudes des Facteurs Humains ), supported by the PEGASE cluster, was submitted last year to the call "Plateforme d'innovation" (DGE and CDC). This experimentation platform dedicated to human factors studies in risky domains (nuclear power plant, aeronautics industry, process control was accepted in a first selection step. This year B. Senach and B. Trousse had regular meetings in Aix-en-Provence between march and june to finalize the proposal of the second selection step. The submission of the proposal was delayed according to the decision of the founding partners.

Collaborations with Territories in PACA

Participants : Bernard Senach, Brigitte Trousse.

Links with territories:

• CASA, City of Antibes: transportation projects (Mobivip 2007, Cuscov 2008, TIC TAC 2010)

• CASA, City of Valbonne: accessible mobility project (TAC-VAL) (cf. section  8.1.2 )

• Urban Community of Nice Provence Côte d'Azur, City of Nice: Support of the FP7-ICT proposal called FIREBALL related to a specific coordination action on Smart Cities at the european level which is also to be linked to the Living Lab approach and Internet of Objects (cf. section  8.3.1 ).

• City of Nice, Plaine du var “Ecovallée” (November 11): meeting with O. Sassi (Development Director) and S. Lartigue (innovation and economics aspects).

We have also contact with M. Dioudonnat of the “Institute of Mediterranée” related to the Medlab project.

Collaborations with SMEs

Participants : Bernard Senach, Brigitte Trousse, Yves Lechevallier.

Two SMEs involved in two accepted projects:

• Wozaik (Paris) related to Social networks and Recommender Systems : the SCAR 2.0 project was one of the 44 accepted projects from 340 submissions to the Call for proposals Web 2.0 - Web innovants . It is one of the three accepted projects at the national level where Inria is partner.

• VuLOG (Antibes) related to Usage Analysis and Experimentation for the PREDIT call on Mobility in Regions, the TIC-TAC project (advanced transportation system - shuttle on demand and real time traveller information).

Four other SMEs involved in common proposals with AxIS:

• Perferencement (Nice): in 2008 we had a first contact with Perferencemnt an SME specialized in web site referencing. In 2009 we started a collaboration within a research project aiming to optimize the position of results provided by search engines such as Google. Our contributions will concern: usage mining and experimentation (cf. section  8.1.2 ).

• Coexel (Marseille): Axis participated to "speed dating" meeting organized by the SCS cluster at Inria and aiming at matching SMEs problems with Inria research projects' solutions. With Coexel, a SME specialized in knowledge management we proposed the “Smart Docs santé” Project for labeling it by the cluster SCS. AxIS will be concerned by usage analysis, personnalization and recommender systems .

• Ivès (Biot, Grenoble) and AccésCités: accessible mobility, partner in the Pacalab proposal called TAC-VAL (cf. section  8.1.2 ).

• Osmose (Roquefort-les-Pins): energy, partner in the Pacalab proposal called ECOFFICES (cf. section  8.1.2 ).

Via two proposals to FUI9, we are involved with others SMEs :

• several SMEs (Numtech, Vincipark, Cityway, etc.) involved in the NAVTI proposal (labelled by the Movéo and System@tic clusters) related to multimodality and mobility

• Moviken (including SLE Sophia Antipolis) in e-transports proposal (labelled by the Advancity cluster) related to a Dlobal System of Distribution of transport tickets for tourism and dedicated to the department of Alpes Martimes .