About SmartLivingNEXT

The Semantics and AI focus group serves to clarify the need for semantic technologies and AI. It is worked out whether semantics are openly accessible and established for the domains. Based on this, we work out which tasks are to be solved with AI, what data is available and in what quality, and what the typical AI methods are. The focus group evaluates the requirements and available data and derives requirements for AI services and semantic descriptions. Results are semantic descriptions, evaluation of data for AI methods, method and effort estimates for AI services, assessment of basic AI services.

The focus group deals with the topics of user behavior and acceptance in the smart living ecosystem, the realization of successful business models and the design of governance structures and mechanisms that are sustainable in the long term. The aim is to discuss specific issues and objectives together and to evaluate implementation options. Workshops on the above-mentioned topics are planned, in which the interests of the stakeholders involved are identified, experiences are shared and joint discussions – also with experts from practice and science – take place. In the workshops, participants are encouraged to contribute their current challenges and objectives. The results are then documented in writing so that they are available to the project network and can be incorporated into the final papers.

The project coordination focus group supports the satellites with administrative issues and general organization. Training is planned on the use of the support and collaboration tool provided and on the provision of documents and documentation. A further aspect is the clarification of the need for the contractual basis in the area of (mutual) data use and provision and the planning and participation in joint events with an external impact and, if necessary, trade fair appearances, in each case as a distinction or supplement to tasks in the context of accompanying research. In addition, requirements for the operation of joint or technology program-spanning demonstrators and laboratories are discussed and any related planning is coordinated. The aim is to establish an orderly project process with clearly defined roles between satellite partners, flagship project and accompanying research, which can also participate as a guest. The meetings are recorded and then made available to the entire technology program to support its activities. The target group is primarily those responsible for the consortium management of the satellite projects, who are required to implement the findings in their own funding program, as well as those responsible for the accompanying research.

In this focus group, the emphasis is on the needs and requirements of users who help to develop applications through their tests and feedback during the project and who should use them later. The aim is to raise awareness of the different perspectives of professionally motivated users, intrinsically motivated private users and users who are not necessarily motivated.

Aspects during the project term are appreciative communication with testers, their motivation and support, but also the development and communication of an exit strategy. Topics such as ethics, trustworthiness, non-discrimination, accessibility and legal framework conditions are relevant in all phases.
We invite the project partners from the satellite projects to jointly discuss and evaluate their potential applications with regard to the points mentioned above.

The communication focus group is an interaction and working format for the public relations work of the SmartLivingNEXT projects and the accompanying research. The aim is to increase awareness of the technology programme among the smart living community, the leading media and politicians, as well as to transfer knowledge of the research results obtained in the projects to companies, research institutes, associations and organizations. Based on a communication strategy that has already been defined, measures are being developed, particularly for social media, the SmartLivingNEXT newsroom and participation in public events. Participants are encouraged to submit structured proposals relating to their own project. The results are recorded in an editorial plan.