These are the projects that have teams actively working on them.  At this stage none have formerly started, but have teams exploring the scope and viability of various project ideas.

Projects

The cluster has been working at establishing collaborative projects.  We have several active project teams all in various stages of formation:

• Wireless Vehicle Communications via DSRC
   We are forming a team to develop a project in this exciting area of emerging Vehicle to Vehicle and Vehicle to Infrastructure communications.  Discussions are under way to progress a scope for this project and a team.
• Assisted Living
  Mark Steiner is leading a team to investigate technologies that assist the elderly and disabled to live at home longer.  The proposed technology combats isolation by providing simple communication to friends, family and carers as well behind-the-scenes monitoring of basic habits.  Friends and family can be automatically be notified if there is a break in routine.  An important element is hiding the technology and complexity an easy to use  interface.  Discussions are under way with government agencies and aged care facilities to best understand the needs of carers and their clients.
• Assisted Vision
  NICTA is leading a team to explore what can be done with the latest technology to assist people with poor vision.  The proposal involves the use of smart miniture cameras backed by state-of-the-art algorithms to recognise and describe objects and people in the line of sight. This project is not an active ESA project at this point in time.
• OASIS (was Funky Kiosk)
  Bill Horton is exploring how a future kiosk might intelligently respond to a customer.  Technologies to support this include:
  • Techniques to recognise the customer.
  • Techniques to recognise what goods the customer is carrying.
  • Tailoring content based on the customer and the goods.
  • Downloads of movies, games, or music using ultra-high-speed wireless.

The latest updates are in the October 2009 Newsletter.