Summary

The interior design of tourist spaces plays a central role in triggering emotions among tourists and visitors and in making interactions with them more significant and attractive. At the same time, designs should reflect the heritage and the storytelling of the surroundings and should keep in mind the operational needs of the teams that manage tourist centers on a day-to-day basis.

In this context, the SENSATUR project explores the combination of Evidence-Based Design methodology and technologies used to develop new intelligent systems, in order to objectively and empirically assess the impact of interior design and museum discourse on changes in the perception, emotions and behavior of visitors to tourist spaces.

Summary

The introduction of technology represents a paradigm shift both in the restaurant industry and in the domestic kitchen. The availability of a growing number of technological components and digital content in new devices and appliances represents the gateway to a more efficient, straightforward and collaborative effort. This new technological and material context means that the available objects and resources tend to be more sophisticated; however, viewed from the perspective of the overall user experience, those objects and resources tend to be less understandable and usable.

The TANGIBLE project integrates tangible interface technologies (TUI, Tangible User Interfaces) embedded in the surfaces and materials of the kitchen equipment in order to: i) facilitate the management of the options offered by the digital environment, ii) stimulate more inclusive co-creation activities within work processes and iii) offer new utilities of value to users of professional and domestic kitchens.

Summary

The office and workplace equipment industry is investing more and more in new product solutions that feature a greater number of reconfigurable options and technology embedded in the product to support versatility. As a result, the objective is an interior design solution that allows for a greater number of ad-hoc transformations.

The LIQUID project will employ artificial intelligence and neuroscience principles in order to objectively and empirically assess the impact of creativity and coworking space interior design on changes in user perception, emotion and behavior. The aim is to provide support for decisions regarding the adaptation of these spaces according to production needs, while paying careful attention at all times to the physical and emotional well-being of the user.

Summary

The objective of AUNA is the development of a collaborative platform for unified access to digital solutions in the Habitat sector which enables the integration of the entire sector value chain, from application providers to application users.

There are many, diverse solutions available that can be useful for those SMEs in the habitat sector seeking to advance their level of digitization, although many of these solutions are not well-known. In addition, selecting the best option among the many that are available requires a knowledge of both the real needs of the company (beyond the subjective perception that the user may have) and the operational possibilities offered by each solution to cover those needs. For their part, solution providers lack a global vision of the problem to be solved, since these solutions usually arise from the specific needs of a company or small group of companies and are later launched on the market as a general solution for the sector. 

The AUNA project uses as a basis the feasibility analysis carried out in 2017 by the HABITAT 4.0 initiative and its main objective is to facilitate the transition of habitat companies to a higher degree of digital maturity. In a first phase, the AUNA project has developed a cloud platform that facilitates the access of companies in the habitat sector to various Industry 4.0 solutions. It is a platform capable of generating recommendations to users based on their activities and their level of digital maturity, through the processing of information using artificial intelligence.

The AUNA project pursues the development of a platform with which to establish recommendations precisely and with the degree of quality that companies require in their exploratory phase of technological solutions in Industry 4.0. In addition, the second phase of the project addresses the need to dynamically update the digital maturity profile of the user companies registered in AUNA and the development of an environment of upgradable solutions in an evolutionary environment of both new applications and new providers.