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	Personalisation of telecom services - introduction
	Personalisation in telecom business
	Interview with Maria Lorenza Demarie
	Integrated Project ePerSpace launched
	Personalised service delivery on multiple devices
	Personalised communication in e-marketing

Integrated Project ePerSpace launched

Ádám Kapovits Eurescom kapovits@eurescom.de

At the beginning of February, ePerSpace, a new Integrated Project in the IST area under EU Framework Programme 6, was launched in Paris. The project brings together 19 telecom operators, research institutes, universities and technology providers to address personalised services at home and everywhere. The project is co-ordinated by France Telecom. Eurescom is responsible for the dissemination and training activities.

The motivation for ePerSpace is that European citizens own a large number of devices with different capabilities ranging from TV to smart phones and PCs to set-top boxes. The ability to exchange data and access external services from these devices is limited which severely hampers the effectiveness of personalisation. This, in turn, affects the usability and thus mass-market adoption of advanced audiovisual networked services.

The ePerSpace project addresses the major challenge how to “make it happen”. ePerSpace aims at significantly increasing the user acceptance of networked audiovisual systems and applications at home and virtually anywhere by developing innovative, personalised value-added networked services.

Through the integration of global telecoms networks and the home audiovisual and networking sectors, ePerSpace will solve existing interoperability problems in personalisation data exchange, services, context adaptation and management of service platforms.

From a social and business perspective, ePerSpace will develop user adoption and business models focussing on mass market services enabling seamless cooperation of multimedia user platforms and devices to access personalised services anywhere. Dissemination activities including trials and user surveys will be instrumental for that purpose.

The objectives of ePerSpace will be realised through four major work areas:

• The Home Platform providing the means to exchange audiovisual     content between user terminals and home equipment;

• Global Network Integration & Interoperability offering innovative seamless access by sharing user profiles in a secure manner;

• Home and Personal Devices building unified personal environments;

•  Rich Media Object Management supplying the tools for content creators to make optimal use of the infrastructure.

ePerSpace will build on existing results and experiences gained in past European projects (@HOME and YOUNGSTER) and is expected to boost the usage of personalised services.

www.ist-eperspace.org

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