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Three other COST Actions that may be of relevance to this Action, are COST 298, COST IS0906 and COST 2102 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Action IS0906 “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies” (2010-2014) is coordinating research efforts into the key transformations of European audiences within a changing media and communication environment, identifying their complex interrelationships with the social, cultural and political areas of European societies. Four interconnected but distinct topics concerning audiences are being developed, all of pressing importance to both European communication research and European societies: (1) New media genres, media literacy and trust in the media; (2) Audience interactivity and participation; (3) The role of media and ICT use for evolving social relationships; and (4) Audience transformations and social integration. The Action offers a perspective which is different from that of conventional ICT-focused audience research, by (a) bringing together experts who study a wide range of media, ‘old’ mass media included, to understand how these relate to each other and to everyday life, and (b) paying equal attention to audience-focused issues (especially media interpretations and mediated experiences) and user-focused issues (both adoption and use of technologies). The Action concentrates on being of benefit to the scientific and education communities, to media, communication and ICT industries and professionals, to policy-makers and regulatory bodies, and to media- oriented NGOs and citizen initiatives. http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/node/1 Action 298: Participation in the Broadband Society The main objective of this Action is to create new knowledge about user creativity and to facilitate their empowerment in a broadband information society. This requires an examination of the factors that can both constrain and enhance users’ abilities to shape and use ICTs, nowadays also referred to as information society technologies and services (ISTs). The Action specific objectives are as follows: 1) To examine the modalities in which users actually use ICTs and to discover their current forms of creativity. This involves assessing existing studies and, on the basis of this, informing industries and developing recommendations about ways to integrate these insights into future products and services.
2) To look ahead to technology related-developments in the more medium term (e.g. the planned implementation of certain national and EU regulations) in order to apply the insights gained from existing research and indicate the implications 3) To suggest new approaches and methodologies for constructing a more user- driven model of innovation in order to overcome the limitations of current models of user-centred development. This entails providing an analysis of the various conceptualisations of the role of users held by those developing new applications within different parts of the ICT industry. people from various disciplines to attend in order to stimulate dialogue)4) To produce a new phase in interdisciplinary cooperation. This would provide the basis for conceptually integrating the various methods for assessing the experience of broadband technologies from the perspective of different disciplines (e.g. through workshops that invite http://w3.cost.esf.org/index.php?id=110&action_number=298
Action 2102: Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication Objectives This Action profits from two former COST Actions (COST 277 and COST 278) that identified new appropriate mathematical models and algorithms to drive the implementation of the next generation of telecommunication services such as remote health monitoring systems, interactive dialogue systems, and intelligent avatars. http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions/ict/Actions/Verbal_and_Non-verbal_Communication |
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