In November 2012 we co-organized with the TwinTide project in Bled an international autumn training school TUTOREM for PhD students from the HCI field. The overarching goal of TUTOREM was to improve participants’ understanding of significant research methods commonly or increasingly used in the field of HCI. Such an enhanced understanding will enable them to select and combine appropriate research methods for their specific HCI projects and to contextualise them without unintended impacts on validity. The TUTOREM School was attended by 43 PhD students and 8 professors.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
- International journal of technology enhanced learning. Geneva: Inderscience. - International journal on advances in internet technology. - The open information systems journal. Saif Zone, Sharjah, U.A.E: Bentham Open. - Economic and business review. Ljubljana: Faculty of Economics. - Journal of business and economics research. Littleton, Colorado: Western Academic Press. - International journal of trade and global markets. London: Inderscience Publishers. - The European journal of management and public policy. Beograd: European Center for Peace and Development.
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
The portal that we have developed together with partners from the OpenScout project provides access to open content for management and business education and training. Almost 50.000 documents, textbooks, recorded lectures and other types of learning content are freely available at http://learn.openscout.net. At the portal that is available in 9 European languages users and institutions can easily find, access, use, and exchange open content. Students, professionals in SMEs or large enterprises as well as teachers or course designers can easily search for open management content that fits their specific needs. The portal provides users with an interface to start a keyword based search, filter search results, include competence search criteria, or add social metadata like tags, comments or ratings. Additionally, the user is presented with recommended tools for working with a selected resource. The community enables registered users to participate in discussions and special interest groups, communicate with other community members, participate in virtual and face-to-face events, and expand their social networks.
F.11 Development of a new service
In close cooperation with the P2P-Next project we have developed a platform for content provisioning based on peer-to-peer principles. The platform supports live video streaming, video on demand and file distribution. The distribution is based on popular BitTorrent protocol, modified to support live streaming and video on demand use cases. We have developed and added to the family of protocols implementing the platform the ECS protocol that enables flexible, distributed access control mechanisms to the platform communication channels and content. Specially for the content providers we have developed an automated content ingest system, content metadata creation, consumption and management system, content distribution monitoring system and mechanisms for the platform installation and management. On the content consumer side we have modified a browser plugin and enabled the users to monitor the content distribution and search for content based on HTML5 technologies. The platform has been tested in cooperation with RTV Slovenia and BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). An entire platform is available under open source LGPL (Lesser GPL) license.
F.08 Development and manufacture of a prototype