Interactive Media - Human Factors BREAD

Project description
The BREAD (BRoadband in Europe for All: a multi-Disciplinary approach) co-ordination action aims at developing an approach for the realisation of the 'broadband for all' concept within Europe. This EU objective will be reached by a multi-disciplinary approach: societal, economic, regulatory and technological issues. On that basis new strategies and good practice recommendations are to be developed to realise a broadband for all system. This implies to set up an IST co-ordination and information exchange platform to enhance the interaction between the key players in the field and to invoke discussions on this multi-disciplinary approach.
Tasks of HHI are to analyse the state of the art with regard to photonic networks (department "Optical Networks"), broadband mobile communication (department "Broadband Mobile Communications Networks") and with regard to adaptation of broadband services and applications to needs and properties of human information processing (department "Interactive Media - Human Factors").

Project data
Supported by: European Union
Project period: 01.01.2004 - 30.06.2006

Partners

• The Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) - Ghent University
• The University of Essex - UK
• Research Center for Communicartions, Optics and Materials (COM) - Technical University of Denmark
• Communications & Electronics Department at the GET/TELECOM PARIS-Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications - France
• Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut - Germany
• TELSCOM Consulting - Switzerland
• The Institute of Prospective Technological Studies - Directorate General Joint Research
• JCP-Consult - France