Section: Other Grants and Activities

Regional Initiatives

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

In PACA: In 2008, the PACA Regional Council launched the Pacalabs initiative for supporting experimentations of innovative services (from SMEs) or exploratory ideas (from academic world) with real users. AxIS-Sophia is involved in the living lab ICT Usage (cf. 8.1.1 ) and in the CPER telius (cf. 8.1.2 ).

Five new projects started this year:

• A new PREDIT ADEME project TIC-TAC started in 2010 (Sophia Antipolis) (cf. 8.1.3 ),

• Two Pacalabs call 2 were accepted among our 3 proposals in 2009: ECOFFICES (cf. 8.1.4 ) and HOTEL-REF-PACA (cf. 8.1.5 ),

• One COLOR inria action on public data with ADEME, Fing and CETE - Médirannées,

• The INTERREG IV Alcotra proposal called MyMed in collaboration with the Inria Lognet team (leader: L. Liquori) has been accepted.

In Ile de France:

• A new Web 2.0 project "SCAR" started in 2010 with SME Wozaik (cf. 8.2.5 ),

• We submitted 2 FUI9 proposals (not accepted): NAVTI and Itransport GDS

• We have a lot of contacts in the context of Equipex related to “Saclay mobilité 2015”: due to our overload, we have postponed our implication in these projects.

ICT Usage Lab: Activities & projects, Terriotries, Campus STIC Usages

Participants : Brigitte Trousse, Bernard Senach.

Site: http://www.ictusagelab.fr

Activities and Projects

AxIS carried on 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.

This year, at the regional level, the ICT Usage lab has driven its roots deeper in the territories through collaborations with SME, exchanges with local authorities and participation to events to improve its local visibility. The contacts established last year with SMEs and territories in order to answer to different calls for proposals were fruitfull.

• Two new Pacalabs call 2: Hotel Ref PACA (cf 8.1.5 )) and ECOFFICES (cf. 8.1.4 )

• a new Color action: CDISOD (Citizen Driven Innovation Services based on Open data) in order to initialize a collaboration with Fing and Ademe has been accepted (cf. 8.1.6 ).

• Bus230 project: We provided with Orange Labs (Sophia Antipolis) a technical assistance to Ademe for the collect of qualitative feed-back in a study aiming at the definition of a mobility label.

• As representative of the ICT Usage lab, B. Trousse was invited to participate to several meetings between Inria and Groupama (Innovation headquarter) to discuss the feasabiity of a joint Living lab focused on well being and supportive community living.

• During the Living lab Summer School (cf. 8.3.2 ), we met Pr. Harald von Kortzfleish from University of Koblenz-Landau and had another meeting in Sophia while he was invited teacher of "design thinking" at SKEMA. As he intended to set up a living lab in Germany, we planned to collaborate on European projects.

Communication: we put stress on communication this year through several actions:

• A beta version of the ICT Usage lab site is on line: http://www.ictusagelab.fr

• Short articles describing the ICT Usage lab are available on line (Inédit N°75, Lisa may 2010)

• Following the 1st Living Lab Summer Scool, post-proceedings are under progress and handbook about living labs is being written

• For the "Fete de la science" event (21-24 october 2010), the Living lab ICT Usage Lab was presented on two sites (Sophia Antipolis, Inria stand) and CSTB building and UNS (Nice, Mymed-Inria stand).

B. Trousse, as representative of the living lab ICT Usage Lab was invited to participate in a panel related to Clusters and Living Labs at Marseille, event organised by the Institute of the Méditerrannée.

Links with Territories in PACA

We had several meetings with representatives of the Urban Community of Nice Côte d'Azur for collaboration in different proposal:

• With CSTB, Gridpocket and the cluster Capenergies and NCA related to the proposal "Stories" Pilot Type B to the 4th call of the ICT PSP

• With Renault, Veolia Transport, University of Nice and SMEs for the project Lisem (Libre service Mobilité)

• With Symitam to envision a collaboration to the user interface specification of a future multimodal transportation system.

We took part in several meetings organized by the PACA Regional Council

• Workshop "Observatoire de l'Innovation en région", 13 october 2010, Marseille:B. Senach.

• Workshop "Ecosystème numérique", 18 october 2010, Marseille: B. Trousse

We took part in an innovation project in the City of Grasse "Innover Autrement", where QR-Code are available along routes in the city to provide touristic information.

We submitted in 2010 the INTEREG-Alcotra project "Excellence Technologique Touristique" with the Regional Council of Tourism of the PACA Region. the Tourism Office Of Aix, the Tourism Office of Digne-les-Bains and Provincia di Imperia (Italy, coordinator).

Campus STIC “ Usages”

The ICT Usage lab leads researches related to the topic Usages, one of the four topics of the Campus Sophia-STIC http://sophia-stic.polytechnice.fr/page316.html . Cross Research related to the three others topics of the Campus STIC is addressed through several projects:

• Ubiquitous systems and networks: in the Elliot project (cf. 8.3.3 ) use of new services based on an IoT environment of sensors for environmental data will be studied.

• ICThealth: in the Elliot project (cf. 8.3.3 ) an IoT (Internet of Things) environment with sensors for environmental data will be installed. An expected application domain is health service for impaired people (asthmatic people).

• Sustainable development and environment: the Fireball project (cf. 8.3.4 ) is dedicated to Smart Cities with the goal of providing a roadmap toward successful innovation thanks to coordination and alignment of methodologies and approaches in the domains of Future Internet (FI) research and experimentation testbeds and user driven open innovation. See also the Ecoffices project (cf. 8.1.4 ).

In addition, the ICT Usage Lab has defined 3 main streams for its research activities on “Usages”:

• Research for open innovation (ELLIOT, cf. 8.3.3 and CDISOD, cf. 8.1.6 ).

• Set up of methodology and software platform for usage analysis and support to innovative services (cf. MyMed platform (cf. 2 ) and FocusLab platform of the CPER Télius (cf. 8.1.2 ).

• Theory of usages: we began to address this subject few years ago through studies about confidence in carsharing and followed this year through a state of the art focused on user experience. This work has been used to set up a living lab landscape during LLSS 2010 (cf. 8.3.2 ).

PACA CPER TELIUS: FocusLab Platform

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) renamed FocusLab. This proposal was accepted and in 2008 AxIS received funding for buying equipments useful for future experiments in the Region. The FOCUS platform is composed of three parts:

• Equipments to collect usage data

• Methods (good practices, handbooks)

• Software to collect, structure and process usage data

The planned software part of the FOCUS platform aims to support researchers, engineers or SMEs in evaluating their prototypes&services, interested in usage analysis, such as web usage, co-conception, user centered 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.

To avoid ambiguities with a new research Inria team, we renamed our platform Focusab. This year it was enriched year with several technical equipment: 1 eye-tracker TOBII and 10 personal computers

A 3 days training session was held to master advanced eye tracking studies (participants: Inria, Unsa and Orange labs). A technical analysis of current AxIS software is currently in progress. It will lead to precise requirement for the portal giving access to our software.

PREDIT ADEME: TicTac (jan 2010- jan 2012)

Participants : Guillaume Pilot, Bernard Senach, Brigitte Trousse [resp.] .

Requirements for sustainable development push innovation. If one wants people to use public transportation solution rather than individual vehicules, these collective solutions have to become very attractive.

Tictac project aims to provide an advanced travellers' information system in which real time information about waiting time at bus stop will be provided: users define their "favourite" and can call a vocal server which give them immediately the requested information. In a first step, a single bus line with in-vehicule GPS is concerned by the study but in the next step the information system will be extended to other means of transport (train, car pooling...) over a larger territory. Our data mining technologies are applied used to tracks of cell phone usage to understand how people use the service.

In this project, we study also new methods to collect users feed-back and improve information quality through Web 2.0 tools.

Partners: VuLog (project coordinator), INRIA, MHC Conseil.

Site: http://www.projettictac.org/

PacaLabs: ECOFFICES Project (aug 2010- sep 2011)

Participants : Carole Goffart, Bernard Senach, Brigitte Trousse [resp.] .

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 employees behaviour will be tracked. The experimentation will consist in three successive stages: In the first stage data are registered during the usual work of the challengers. The user interface providing consumption feed-back is provided The second stage is the challenge phase where 3 teams are competing to reach the best economy level. In the last stage, after the challenge, data are registered to study the change of practices, if any. We provided one delivrable (D1.3) related to the experimentation protocol [65]

Partners: CASA, CSTB, Osmose (Project coordinator) and Inria

Site:http://www.ecoffices.com/

PacaLabs: HOTEL-REF-PACA Project (dec 2010- dec 2011)

Participants : Florian Bonacina, Bernard Senach, Brigitte Trousse [resp.] .

This project, conducted with Perferencement, a SME specialized in web site referencing, 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.

The experimentation will consist in three main stages:

• In the first stage data current referencing rules are studied and their efficiency estimated through eye-tracking experiments

• In the second stage potential new rules are explored and tested by users

• In the third stage, the selected new rules are tested and their efficiency evaluated through data mining and qualitative studies.

Hotel-keepers and tourists will be involved in the experimentation for validation of the new referencing rules.

The project was offically launched on December 7th at the Palais de la Méditerrannée, Nice.

Partners: Perferencement (projct coordinator), Inria and General Council of Alpes Maritimes (Territorial authority of the Riviera).

Color Inria Action: Open Data - CDISOD (2010)

Participants : Mylène Leitzelman, Bernard Senach, Brigitte Trousse [resp.] .

During the year 2009, at a talk about Living lab, we met FING (Fondation Internet Nouvelle Generation, C. Nepote and J.-M Bourgogne), a French thinktank involved in open innovation projects and open access to public data. We decided then to collaborate on this subject and submitted this year with the collaboration of ADEME (G. Plassat) and CETE Méditerranée (P. Gendre), a color action (INRIA funding) named CDISOD (Citizen Driven Innovative Services based on Open Data). The goal of the project is to study how a collaborative platform can be used to support open innovation processes. The expected application domain was public data about a local transportation system but the access to the data was not available.A state of the art of open innovation tools is under finalisation.

Collaborations with SMEs

Participants : Yves Lechevallier, Bernard Senach, Brigitte Trousse.

We had this year many contacts with SMEs in Paca interested in usage analysis and IS evaluation.

• In order to submit the proposal "Stories" Pilot Type B to the 4th call of the ICT PSP we met with the cluster Capenergies and the SME Gridpocket.

• We had several meetings with SSII GFI to visit their Userlab and envision collaboration on innovation projects.

• After a first meeting at a "speed dating session" organized at INRIA Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée we submitted an APRF proposal "Smartdoc santé" with the SME Coexel (other partners CHU NICE, Mobeo).

• In the context of the proposal "Navti" (FUI10), we had contact (among other partners) with SMEs Senda and Moviken. The submission was not accepted but we keep contact with these SMEs for further collaboration.

• We have close relationship with AtmoPaca for the project Elliot (cf. 8.3.3 ).

• Memo project: We had several meetings with Eurecom and Kuantic to set up the proposal MEMO (ANR verso) which concerned communicating objects in mobility to avoid collision and improve security (not accepted).

• B. Senach and B. Trousse have pursued their contact with Orange Labs (Sophia Antipolis) for future collaborations in the context of the living lab ICT Usage Lab (cf. 8.1.1  ).