LISTEN will provide users with intuitive access to personalised and situated audio information spaces while they naturally explore everyday environments. A new form of multi-sensory content is proposed to enhance the sensual, emotional and pedagogical impact of a broad spectrum of applications ranging from art shows to marketing or entertainment events. This is achieved by augmenting the physical environment through a dynamic soundscape, which users experience over motion-tracked wireless headphones. Immersive audio-augmented environments are created by combining high-definition spatial audio rendering technology with advanced user modelling methods. These allow for adapting the content to the users’ individual spatial behaviour. The project will produce several prototypes and a VR-based authoring tool. Technological innovations will be validated under laboratory conditions whilst the prototypes will be evaluated in public exhibitions.

RAFT stands for Remote Accessible Field Trips and aims at facilitating field trips for schools. RAFT will be developed by an international consortium of universities, schools, software and hardware developers. The project started in July 02 and ended in 2006. i was the main coordinator of RAFT and some more infroamtion can be found on the websites.

:// National RAFT websites

For specific information about RAFT in Canada, Slovakia, Scotland and Germany click on the following links:

http://www.raft-project.org/

Im AILB-Projekt wird eine internetbasierte Lernsoftware für Gehörlose entwickelt, mit deren Hilfe Grundfertigkeiten in “Deutsch lesen” und “Mathematik-Arithmetik” erlernt und verbessert werden können. Letztere bilden die Voraussetzung für berufliche Weiterbildung, so dass die Lernsoftware von jungen in der beruflichen Ausbildung befindlichen Gehörlosen als Lernhilfe genutzt werden kann. Die AILB zeichnet sich durch die folgenden Besonderheiten aus: