Search for European Projects

4 European Projects Found

Searched on 125080 European Projects

 FINISHED 

Narratives in health communication –a multi-disciplinary approach to strengthen understanding of the roles and uses of narratives in conveying health information and changing health behaviors (HealthNar)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

Narratives play an increasingly important role in (online) communication about health issues. News reporters not only report the cold facts about an upcoming epidemic, but also increasingly employ techniques that are used in novels and movies; serious games use interactive storytelling techniques to improve the health of children; health campaigns use celebrities and role models in order to convin ...
Read Project

 4

 FINISHED 

Incorporating Laughter into Human-Avatar Interactions: Research and Evaluation (ILHAIRE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Laughter is a significant feature of human communication, and machines acting in roles like companions or tutors should not be blind to it. So far very limited progress has been made towards allowing computer-based applications to deal with laughter.ILHAIRE will lay the foundations of truly multimodal, multicultural laughter-enabled man-machine interaction, by associating experts of the different ...
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 

Exploiting dataflow parallelism in Teradevice Computing (TERAFLUX)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

Dataflow parallelism is key to reach power efficiency, reliability, efficient parallel programmability, scalability, data bandwidth. In this project we propose dataflow both at task level and inside thethreads, to offload and manage accelerated codes, to localize the computation, for managing the fault information with appropriate protocols, to easily migrate code to the available/working componen ...
Read Project

 11

 FINISHED 

Education in Cultural Understanding, Technologically-Enhanced (eCUTE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

In 21stC Europe, many cultural, ethnic and religious groups must live and work together. This is not always a smooth process; cultural differences can lead to social stresses and sometimes outright conflict. Thus education in cultural awareness and understanding has a very significant role. This is an educational domain in which attitudes and behaviours count much more than knowledge alone, and wh ...
Read Project

 8