CURRENT PROJECTS
ARGUS
ARGUS demonstrates how innovative human-computer interaction (HCI) based on speech-based interaction can help visually impaired people overcome barriers, experience shopping in a positive way, and live their lives in a self-determined way that maintains health and improves quality of life.
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ATLAS
Digitalization has triggered a profound structural change in the automotive industry: As part of the ATLAS – Automotive Transformation Platform Südwestfalen funding project, we accompany and support small and medium-sized companies in these transformation challenges. The goal is to develop forward-looking approaches to individual problems. We provide automotive suppliers in South Westphalia and beyond with fast, efficient and precisely tailored support services for the development of new, digital and sustainable business models, the use of new technologies and the qualification of employees.
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BeDeNUTZ: Beratung der Nutzenden
Anyone who operates in the digital world is confronted with a certain degree of opacity and complexity. In order to navigate competently through this world, users must constantly gather knowledge and information themselves about the technical and economic framework conditions that are difficult to understand, otherwise it is not possible to act in a self-determined manner. In order to support consumers in developing the critical user competence required for this, the BeDeNUTZ research project is investigating the question of how their informational self-determination can be strengthened with the help of consumer protection institutions.
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Fusion
As part of subproject 3 “Resource efficiency & decarbonization” of the FUSION research project, we are working on optimizing the energy and resource consumption of SMEs and the participatory development of digital intermodal mobility solutions. Our goal is to support the transformation of mobility with innovative solutions. We are working to transform mobility, particularly in less densely populated areas, to make it demand-oriented, sustainable and socially responsible.
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Mittelstand 4.0 Kompetenzzentrum Usability
Our Competence Center Usability support companies in getting to know, testing and establishing current usability and user experience approaches.
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Mintify
Mintify – human-centred design of financial education tools: How can digital tools improve the financial education of the German population? MINTIFY investigates how media and intelligent tools can enhance financial education. The goal of the project is to develop customized educational solutions through the use of artificial intelligence, making the financial education process more effective and accessible for various user groups in lifelong learning.
MORECOMPLETED PROJECTS
FreshAnalytics (01.07.2019 – 31.12.2021)
Our vision – a real-time shelf-life indicator to optimize the food supply economically and ecologically.
FreshIndex (01.01.2018 – 31.12.2019)
Our vision – a real-time shelf-life indicator to optimize the food supply economically and ecologically.
CAR-BITS (01.01.2016 – 31.12.2019)
Data services that comply with data protection regulations and link areas through technically secure earmarking using data from cars as an example
Einfach Teilen (01.11.2017 – 31.10.2018)
The project investigates why P2P car sharing has only been used by a few people so far despite the long service life of private cars and how its acceptance can be improved.
sustainKMU (01.05.2019 – 31.12.2022)
The project aimed to increase the energy and resource efficiency of SMEs by developing sustainable and assistive concepts and software systems. The technical development is closely linked to the sensitisation, motivation and qualification of employees at the social and action level.
CheckMyVa
CheckMyVA (check my voice assistant) aimed to improve the data sovereignty and privacy of voice assistant users.
MaaS LABS
User-centred Mobility-as-a-Service platform: Lively, automated, demand & sharing-oriented.
MIAAS
Mobility Intelligence as a Service – Development of a European open source platform for decision-making with mobility data.
OMI
Being mobile without your own car? In many places, this is unthinkable due to a lack of mobility alternatives. One of the biggest tasks in the context of the mobility transition is the change from motorised private transport to intermodal, i.e. combined mobility solutions. However, these are currently failing primarily due to a lack of infrastructure. This is where the OMI (Open Mobility Infrastructure) project came in. It supports local authorities in making mobility reliable, sustainable and user-friendly.
MobilCharta5
The project developed an innovative, sustainable, space-saving, climate-protecting and environmentally friendly mobility system (continuous, barrier-free and safe means of transport). The project area extended in a tangential brace from Hennef (DB station area with connection: Cologne, Bonn: mobility hub A) via the towns of Neunkirchen (portal mobility station) and Seelscheid (portal mobility station) to Overath (DB station area with connection Cologne, Gummersbach: mobility hub B).
