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First lab-studies on di.me userware completed

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A first lab-study on the di.me userware with 21 business and private end-users in Madrid, Karlsruhe, and Stuttgart is completed!

The study was a qualitative usability and acceptance test with an early user interface prototype. The participants tested it by walking through predefined scenarios that showed the main functionality of the di.me private service.

The study participants appreciated the general di.me userware concepts and in particular rated the full user-control by giving concrete advantages like ad-hoc networking e.g. on business events. While the potential complexity of such a system generally was seen critical, the participants also appreciated some advanced functionalities. Features which are in the research focus of the project, like giving privacy-warnings and recommendations, can provide individual benefit for many of the participating users. The general positive experience was stronger for power users having a broader practical experience with social networks and internet services. In addition to these results on the general concept, the study yielded a lot of valuable insights about the user interface navigation and information architecture.

The usability testing results are now used to finetune the user interface and underlying data models of the dil.me personal information sphere.

di.me consortium meets in Karlsruhe

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

CAS Software and YellowMap hosted the fourth di.me board meeting. This time, the consortium focused on the preparation of the first project review, to be held in November 2011.

Researchers from di.me consortium gathered to discuss the status of development activities, in order to plan the delivery of the system proof of concept (PoC). The PoC will be the first release of di.me userware and will include a limited set of functionalities and connections with external services in order to comply with the defined scenario – a person attending a business event and using di.me in order to register and interact with other attendees.

Moreover, the consortium reviewed the results of first lab tests which were conducted in the past months with selected participants and which showed positive acceptance of the system from users.

Researchers from di.me visited the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Researchers from DERI, University of Siegen and Barcelona Digital have met Sebastian Labitzke, a researcher at De-centralized Systems and Network Group of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Labitzke’s research is focused in areas around Digital Identity Management on Social Networks and Social Network Linkability. The topic deals on how disaggregated personal data on separate Online Social Networks can be correlated to identify the individuals behind the digital identities, and which are the implications and risks that may potentially arise.

After reviewing latest findings from Labitzke's work, researchers have discussed on how the topics of Identity, Privacy and Social Network Integration are being addressed in the di.me project, and how the outcomes of the project can become relevant within the Social Networking research arena.

Researchers agreed on keeping an open contact and sharing new concepts and research outcomes as they are achieved in the project.

DERI hosted the third di.me board meeting

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Galway has been the scenario for the third di.me board meeting. The Consortium gathered three days to discuss the latest advancement of the project, after the achievement of Milestone 1 “Requirements and Userware Concept”.

The goal of the meeting was to agree a stable and common vision of the system in order to start development works and to achieve a proof-of-concept of the userware for the first project review.

The meeting hosted a discussion about the system architecture, which ended with an agreed version and the identification of the parties responsible for the development of the several modules. Also the semantic and privacy-security-trust modelling was discussed in order to find a common ground to start development works. Finally, user interfaces concepts were presented and discussed.

The next plenary meeting is scheduled from the 12th to the 14th of September.

di.me attended the Federated Social Web Summit Europe 2011

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A position paper titled “digital.me – towards an integrated Personal Information Sphere” was submitted to the Federated Social Web Summit Europe 2011, a three day open event on Social Web interoperability, standards and privacy, which was celebrated last June 3rd to 5th 2011.

Rafael Giménez from Barcelona Digital attended the event in representation of di.me consortium and could strengthen links with ongoing initiatives like WebID, Diaspora and projects like Danube and MyProfile.

di.me first newsletter is out!

Sun, 29 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

di.me first newsletter was published. In this issue you can find updates from the project’s first six months of execution.

di.me project consortium meets in Barcelona

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

di.me project celebrated a plenary meeting on the last 24th and 25th of February 2011, in Barcelona, Spain.

The meeting, which was hosted by Barcelona Digital, was the first encounter of the consortium in 2011. Project partners debated on the definition of the use cases in order to agree a first stable version on which to base further developments. Also the system architecture was object of a debate on the best model, incompatibilities and best practices. Partners also discussed about use of ontologies, terminologies and how to model context in di.me. Moreover, first scribbles for a user interface concept were presented. Finally next steps were defined.

The next plenary meeting is scheduled from the 6th to the 8th of June in Galway, Ireland.

di.me project celebrated its kick-off meeting

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

di.me project celebrated its first plenary meeting on the last 1st and 2nd of December 2010, after its official launch on the 1st of November of the same year.

The meeting was hosted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO), a prestigious German research organization, and the project Coordinator.

During the meeting, all the partners have presented themselves, as well as their role and objectives within the project and the work to be performed in the work packages and activities.

di.me joined a debate on how we build, use and protect our presence on the network

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Last 25th of November 2010, Barcelona Digital Centre Tecnològic, partner of di.me project, organised the debate “Digital Identity: how we build, use and protect our presence on the network”.

(Photo: Dr. Fabian Hermann)

Dr. Fabian Hermann, di.me project coordinator, gave a speech about the human-machine interaction and the use of private information. Dr. Marc Torrent, Head of R&D Mobility of Barcelona Digital Technology Centre, moderated the debate.

(Photo: Dr. Marc Torrent)