Completed projects

Semantics for Interactive 3D Content

Semantic 3D is a long-term research project performed at the Department of Information Technology and the VR Lab at the Poznań University of Economics and Business. The project aims at the development of new scientific solutions in the domain of distributed systems based on 3D interactive VR/AR content and services.

To stimulate creation of VR/AR applications, it is necessary to develop techniques that enable social co-creation of content and services by a large groups of „prosumers” (users-producers), and to facilitate access to VR/AR content and services anytime and anywhere – as it is now the case of standard web pages. However, creation, searching and composition of distributed three-dimensional interactive VR/AR content and services is much more complex than classic two-dimensional web pages. This is due to the fact that relationships between components of an interactive three-dimensional virtual scene may include, in addition to its meaning and form of presentation, also spatial, temporal, structural, logical, and behavioral aspects.

European network for the integration of Web2.0 in education and work

EdWeb2Work is a European Union funded education project that has two missions:

• To create a network that spans education and the world of work and is designed to improve the use of Web2.0 tools in both fields.
• To create a set of tools for the empirical evaluation of Web2.0 tools.

The project will create a network between stakeholders in the education and work sectors that will examine how both should be using Web2.0 in the education and work environments.

Supervisor research project granted by Polish Ministry of Science "Metadata Schema of Interactions for Multimedia Objects".

Supervisor research project granted by Polish Ministry of Science "Modeling Interactive Educational Scenarios in a Mixed Reality Environment".

Supervisor research project granted by Polish Ministry of Science "Selective Semantic Modeling Method SSM for Building Secure Multiaccess Virtual Environments".

"ITSOA - New information technologies for electronic economy and information society based on service-oriented architecture"
The goal of the project is to exploit modern information technologies from the area of distributed systems. Such techologies, based on the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm, support computerized business process management as well as development of service platforms and IT infrastructure for e-Science. The central point of this approach is to automatize access to both individual services and complex business processes based on these services. Key challenges in this scope include: development of proper service description languages; enabling providers to publish their services and clients to search for the services they require; creation of semantics-based protocols for service composition in the framework of complex and potentially long-running business processes.

ARCO is a unique solution for virtual management creation and management. ARCO System - a result of an international cooperation of scientists and museum staff - covers entire chain of virtual museum creation. From cultural objects digitalization, through their refinement, storage, and collection management, up to presentation in various interfaces: Web pages, 3D scenes, virtual reality environments or within augmented reality interfaces.

DynG is a research project aiming at designing and implementing a collaborative platform for electronic negotiations. It integrates support for group dynamics, social and communicative aspects. It allows negotiators to work in a structured manner - via negotiation protocols - in many groups within a single negotiation process. DynG is part of the Ada::Pro initiative.

The goal of this project is to design and implement a modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) supporting advanced information exchange. A strong focus is set on document exchange among ERPs installation, security, and knowledge management.

Among the most innovative aspects of the proposed solution, one may distinguish the strong integration of a knowledge base with the ERP information exchange system, as well as a brand-new ontology driven search method. This project, co-realized with ComArch, is financed by European Structural Funds.

Weather Window is a project concerning development of new methods for intuitive, user-friendly visualization of scientific weather forecast data. The project is performed in co-operation with ICM.

The goal of this project is to design and implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), which supports Businness Intelligence. A strong focus is set on ergonomics, multi-cultural aspects, and easiness of tailoring and maintainance of the developped ERP. Among the most innovative aspects of the proposed solution, one may distinguish the strong integration of decision support tools with the ERP, as well as a brand-new support for the management of groups and teams in a project-oriented approach.

This project, co-realized with ComArch, is financed by European Structural Funds.

The goal of this project was to develop a new organizational and functional model of a public administration. The model utilizes information and communication technology to introduce a concept of a public administration being oriented towards a process approach to citizen services.

The goal of this project is to design and implement software for parameterised production of synthetic 3D contents used in the production pipeline of the virtual television studio environment developed by the Warsaw University of Technology.

Periscope is a 2D/3D Web search visualization system. Periscope visualizes the entire search result, instead of just listing a few pages claimed to be most relevant. Depending on the model selected and the parameters provided, the system can classify and visualize different properties of the search result. The users can interact with the generated virtual scene to better understand the nature of the search result and possibly refine the query.

The iTVP project aimed at building infrastructure that enables production of live TV contents in virtual studio environment and provision of interactive television services accessible over the Internet. Within this project PUE has been involved in design and implementation of multimedia data repository and dynamic content creation tools. The dynamic content creation methodology is used both to create contents for the virtual studio production and to enable generation of customized 2D and 3D synthetic content for the on line Internet users.

PISTE (IST-1999-11172) – Personalized, Immersive Sports TV Experience – was a three-year international European project to develop an interactive television system addressing the needs of broadcasters and home viewers that will transform TV watching into an immersive interactive experience during the coverage of sports events. PISTE uses mixed 2D and 3D MP

Project financed by Philips Lighting Poland aiming at the development of a web-based marketing system supporting business-to-business and business-to-customer transactions.

ESPRIT project with seven European Union partners, aiming at the development of an integrated support platform for Internet business transactions in their three phases: information, negotiation and execution.

The e-MAX system is meant for Philips Lighting authorized business partners to let them doing business with Philips in a new manner. The e-MAX system permits not only to place orders, but first and foremost monitor and negotiate order fulfillment conditions.

Project financed by the EP S.A. - a regional electric power distribution company, aiming at the development of an intranet solution for business task management.

INTUITION was a pan-European Network of Excellence focused on virtual reality and virtual environments applications for future workspaces.

Work on Web2.0ERC project by DIT, PUE team
In the period of January 2010 – December 2011, the team of the Department of Information Technology (DIT) at the Poznan University of Economics (PUE) worked on the European project entitled “European Resource Centre for Web2.0 Education”. The project aimed at creating a simple to use and secure Web2.0 environment for teachers and students to use in daily educational activities and popularisation of the use of Web2.0 tools and technologies in education.
During the final evaluation by the European Commission, the project has been awarded an excellent score of 9/10 points.

IMM4All - The purpose of the project is to enable partners from 6 EU states to make a software application called Conveyor and to demonstrate it to the cultural heritage community in their state. Conveyor is an online application that enables users to build an interactive presentation that can be saved and later played back in a browser window. It is easy-to-use and does not require any programming skills.

More information: http://getconveyor.org/

The work within the project is conducted within the Polish National Science Center research grant for young researches without the Ph.D. degree, project "Recommendation method RMV for partner and service selection in virtual organization breeding environments based on process mining techniques".

In this project a novel method for supporting partner and service selection processes based on process mining techniques is proposed. The challenge and scientific goal is to analyze past instances of collaborative processes of partner and service selection, and use this knowledge to support current and future instances. The method allows activity patterns in various instances of partner and service selection processes to be identified as repeatable patterns occurring in particular contexts. Such patterns can be used for recommendation of activities. This provides an opportunity for better computer support of collaborative processes (e.g. by automation of activity patterns) leading to more efficient and effective realization of partner and service selection process goals. Within the project, efficient algorithms will be designed and implemented, namely: activity pattern identification, context modeling and analysis, and activity recommendations.
Project coordinator: Zbigniew Paszkiewicz, M.Sc.

UbiqUI - Ubiquitous mobile user interfaces for industrial monitoring and control applications.
ABB Software Research Grant

The aim of this project is to develop a solution that provides an efficient user interface of industrial monitoring and control applications on any device and allows seamlessmigration of the UI from one device to another. Solution that is future proof, i.e. it allows proper presentation of the user interface on devices that will emerge in the future and will introduce form factors and capabilities that were not known beforehand.

Beh-VR is a research project focusing on development of a method of dynamic modelling of virtual reality that will enable dynamic composition and manipulation of virtual scenes based on a generic geometric and behavioural model consisting of arbitrarily complex spatial, temporal and logical structures.
The method will enable dynamic composition of virtual scenes consisting of objects that can change their state and presentation method, can react to user actions and can interact with one another. Dynamic management of objects in virtual scenes will enable adding, removing and migrating objects between scenes.