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The increasing complexity of our world demands new perspectives on the role of technology
in human decision making. We need new technology to cope with the increasingly
complex and information-rich nature of our modern society.
The corporate Human Factors research laboratory for THALES and part of THALES Research & Technology Nederland, (managing partner of the D-CIS Lab research collaboration), organises a session of workshops on multi-touch technology uses. A first workshop will take place on Tuesday, April 6th 2010. A second workshop, as a follow up, is planned for the end of 2010.
D-CIS Lab hosted one of the regular meetings of the innovation brokers “community of practice” of the Dutch Police, Royal Marechaussee and the Ministry of Justice and was presented with the opportunity to present some of its research on Actor Agent Communities. Topics that were presented included: “the Security Innovation Lab – next generation innovator facility”, “mission level control concepts for multiple UAV operation”, “construction and use of dynamic expertise integration networks”, “super-situational awareness – MOSAIC”, “flexible agent based re-planning solutions – MAS@NS” and results from some human factors investigation projects.
On Tuesday January 26th 2010 the ICIS community presented the results of five years of research on Interactive Collaborative Information Systems. More that 150 people attended the full day program at the Art Centre Delft. As chairman of the ICIS consortium board Prof. Jaap van den Herik opened the day with a plenary presentation of the highlights of ICIS. He first thanked the many universities, research institutes and businesses for their contribution to the project as research and as valorization partners. He then highlighted the scientific achievements. With more than 500 publications in journals, proceedings, technical papers series and a special scientific book there is good reason to celebrate the results. It deserves special mention that ICIS may take credit for some 20 dissertations. Van den Herik went on to explain to the audience how the project was built up and developed with numerous internal and public events. In a stepwise fashion the project expanded its efforts from scientific research to special valorization projects to integrate its results and to demonstrate their practical value.
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