Current debates about increasing polarization of the online public sphere stress the role of AI-mediated information access in creating and/or amplifying “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers”. Such polarizing developments have been linked to both the biased way in which AI algorithms provide recommendations, as well as to well-known cognitive limitations and biases that hinder people from being able or willing… read more →
The enCOMPASS project will implement and validate an integrated socio-technical approach to behavioural change for energy saving, by developing innovative user-friendly digital tools for making energy data consumption available and understandable for the different users and stakeholders (residents, employees, pupils, building managers, utilities, ICT providers) empowering them to collaborate to achieve energy savings and manage their energy needs in energy efficient, cost-effective and comfort-preserving ways. It will demonstrate how this can be achieved by a… read more →
POWER is a user-driven project to share knowledge and experience of water related issues in different local authorities, thus creating an important tool for EU water policy. It addresses some of the priorities of the European Innovation Partnership on Water such as the reduction of water consumption and the improvement of water quality. It will develop a common Digital Social Platform… read more →
The KOLEGEA++ project is the follow-up project of KOLEGEA. It extends the Web2.0-based system KOLEGEA, which aims to facilitate knowledge exchange in networks of general practitioners in training, with state-of-the-art incentive models using gamification and reputation elements, and recommender functionalities to further stimulate activity on the platform. Both programs are directed at physicians in specialty training for general practitioners. EIPCM has… read more →
The SmartH2O project aims at providing water utilities, municipalities and citizens with an ICT enabled platform to design, develop and implement better water demand management policies, which are based on a shared understanding and motivation by the water users, thus leading to a reduction in water consumption, while not compromising the quality of life. SmartH2O builds a bi-directional stream between… read more →
CUbRIK is a 36-month Collaborative Project involving 15 partners, partially funded by the European Commission. It will provide programmable pipelines implementing workflow for search-based processes coordinated across machine, human and crowd-sourced tasks for the three typical processes of multimedia search: content, query and relevance feedback processing. The final result of the project will be an open platform for multimedia search… read more →
CUbRIK is a 36 month Collaborative Project involving 15 partners, partially funded by the European Commission. The Social Fashion Trend Intelligence application is one of two application demonstrators of the CUbRIK project. Integrating machine, human and crowd-sourced tasks, the application provides fashion trend analysis tools for small and medium businesses in the fashion industry, enabling them to identify insights into… read more →
The CUbRIK Fashion application provides new, affordable means of trend analysis of current consumer preferences in the fashion domain based on social network posts. Targeting small and medium fashion enterprises, one of the analysis functionalities enables the SMEs to upload photos of their own product line and perform a “similarity check”. It asses the product’s popularity by comparing it with… read more →