Smart Community

Date: 23/04/2013 Speaker: Lanfranco Marasso In the real world “smart city” could be define as a system of systems, with a set of complex rules driving people, environment, businesses, public sector, … In many cases around the world “smart city” is ... [More] an excellence covering just a single specific issue, in a silos perspective. The challenge is to remove the barriers among silos looking at an harmonic living body. [Less]

Marco Pistore, our team leader is giving a talk on friday 19th april at 12.30 in FBK buildings (Povo) during IBM Smarter Planet Comes to You tour held in Trento next 18-19 April. We encourage everyone to have a look at the agenda and join us at the event!  

Today StartupItalia! presented Hackathon competition winners: young, talented people with passion for mobile app development! http://www.startupitalia.eu/it/blog/article/ready-steady-hackathon

University of Trento ICT Doctoral School is now offering 3 PhD scholarships focusing on Smart Campus project! Applications deadline is set for next April 18th. For more details please visit http://www.smartcampuslab.it/phd-scholarships-2013/

Date: 22/03/2013 Moderator: Marco Pistore, Smart Campus Project Manager Trento RISE This week, the Smart City seminar will be replaced by a panel that will be held during ICT DAYS 2013. The meeting will be part of the “Smart Territory” event that ... [More] will be held Friday 22 March 2013 at 15:00 at Museo delle Scienze, Le Albere. The event offers insights into Trentino as a smart territory and promoting the diffusion of economic and social innovations through intellectual, creative and business resources. [Less]

Date: 14/03/2013 Speaker: students from the Human-Computer Interaction bachelor Course Abstract: In this seminar, selected students from the HCI course at University of Trento will introduce their own proposals for new apps to be included in the ... [More] Smart Campus suite, which were developed as part of their coursework. A jury will reward the best idea with the possibility of implementing it within the project. Furthermore, we will present the latest improvements of the Smart Campus apps which will be available for students at the upcoming ICT days as well as the version that will be available for the general public. Please note that the students’ talks could be either in English or in Italian. [Less]

Date: 28/02/2013 Speaker: Ronald Chenu-Abente Abstract: As in many social networks or social-oriented applications, the basic services of the SmartCampus project are enhanced by the flow of information produced by the sharing of media, the ... [More] following/friending others and finally the tagging and commenting. This talk introduces the SmartCampus' Social Engine that uses a semantics-enhanced approach to capture this flow of information and to introduce a novelty feature called "Interest Following"that allows receiving notifications not only from other users but also from places, institutions or even defined topics. [Less]

Ronald Chenu-Abente, post-doc researcher at the University of Trento is presenting Smart Campus Social Engine, a system that uses a semantics-enhanced approach to capture flows of information and to introduce a novelty feature called “Interest ... [More] Following” that allows receiving notifications not only from other users but also from places, institutions or even defined topics. The [...] [Less]

Date: 14/02/2013 Speaker: Antonella De Angeli Abstract: In this talk, we will present the user research which has informed the design of the first set of Smart Campus Apps. This process started at the beginning of 2012 involving a large number of ... [More] students in the generation of ideas for services they would like and need. Some of these ideas were transformed into prototypes using iterative design and were evaluated in the lab and with a large scale field study. We followed a class of 90 students as they used the Smart Campus apps, collecting both qualitative and quantitative data over a 4-month period. Results were used to improve the apps and to set the definition of a new adoption model for mobile technology. [Less]

In this talk Antonella De Angeli, Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Trento, will present the user research which has informed the design of the first set of Smart Campus Apps. The seminar will be held on ... [More] 14/02/2013 in FBK buildings. For more information: http://www.trentorise.eu/news/smart-students-building-their-campus-large-participatory-design   [Less]