IRIS

Partners

European Dynamics (Greece)
European Dynamics (ED) will act as the project manager capitalizing on its long involvement and expertise in European projects (Telematics, ACTS, TEN-TELECOM, Inco-Copernicus) as well as on its daily interaction with its client organisations in the framework of European tenders. ED will also contribute in the technical design and implementation phase of the project. ED's contribution in this area will be extremely valuable since it will bring to the project the awareness and expertise gained from the DSIS-IRC project that has developed an "Information Resource Centre" for providing services over a groupware WEB environment. European Dynamics will also bring its expertise in e-commerce technologies, including tools and technologies for e-shop generation/e-payments/e-security/user authentication mechanisms.

University of the Aegean (Greece)
The University of the Aegean (UoA), due to the distributed nature of its campus, has long been an active investigator and proponent of Internet collaboration, and tools that support it. As with most other universities, it is also interesting in student learning taking place over the Internet as well as in the traditional setting. The interest in design for all arises from the need to cater for not only their academic community of researchers and learners, but also the support community of administrations and technical personnel. This represents a wide range of users for whom Internet collaboration is an essential work tool. The university works hard to provide services to its users, so that for instance, their desktop is accessible to them, from whatever computer located on whatever island campus. It recognises that design for all benefits all, not least those with some form of disability. This partner will perform development and dissemination activities, and will be responsible for the technical management of the project.

Fraunhofer-Institut fur Angewandte Informationstechnik (FIT.HEB)
The Fraunhofer-Institut fur Angewandte Informationstechnik (FIT) (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology), formerly known as FIT (German National Research Center for Information Technology, Institute for Applied Information Technology), has a top-range staff of about ninety researchers, technicians, students, and administrators. They represent a wide range of skills and nationalities, including computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, economists, sociologists, and psychologists. It has three main research lines: Social Web, Human Enabling and Information Contextualization. The TEDIS Group (Technological Enabling of Disabled and Older People), part of the Human Enabling Research Group, is directly involved in the IRIS project. Our mission is to develop information and communication technologies in order to enable disabled and older persons to lead a self-determined life and to facilitate their equal participation in the social and economical activities of the society. Current research and development focuses on Computer-Assisted Therapeutic Intervention environments for physically and mentally impaired children (CATI), Barrier-Free Internet and Web Accessibility, Health Telematics, User Modelling, and Cognitive Training by Animated Pedagogical Agents (TAPA), among others. Our staff is member of several Working Groups of the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and of the Working Group on User Interfaces for All of the European Research Consortium in Informatics an Mathematics (ERCIM-UI4ALL).

UPV-EHU (Spain)
The University of the Basque Country, and specifically the academic researchers in the Laboratory of Human-Computer Interaction will bring to the project its long expertise and experience in the research and development of computer systems for people with disabilities. The university of the Basque Country will be responsible for the phases of user requirements and identification of recommendations for enhancements of Internet services, will have significant contribution to the evaluation phase, as well as coordinating the participation of the subcontracted member, ISdAC International Association, in those phases and the evaluation.

ISdAC
ISdAC (Information Society disAbilities Challenge) International Association is a non-profit International Association established since 1998 under the Belgian law in accordance with the Law of October 25th 1919, modified by the law of December 6, 1954, with the approval of the Ministry of Justice. ISdAC, includes members, which are citizens of several countries across Europe and extensively use ICT to interact with each other. The member's experience from previous involvement in R&D European projects will act as a user test-bed to assess the overall accessibility of IRIS products towards the disabled constituency. All ISdAC members are People with a Disability, possessing relevant skills in order to be able to deliver qualitative input and feedback. ISdAC will contribute its valuable experience and feedback primarily at the phases of user requirements and evaluation.

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