Web page:
www.fraunhofer.de
Contact point:
Martin Sedlmayr
The Fraunhofer Institute on Applied Information Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany, focuses on human-centered computing in process context.
Fraunhofer FIT works to enhance human abilities through flexible, context-adaptive information and cooperation systems. Systems designed and built in FIT help decision-makers to evaluate options. They assist the handicapped or elderly to participate more fully in their jobs, in their private lives or as tourists. Our systems support designers and engineers in real and virtual work environments, provide Internet-based platforms for social as well as task-related interaction of learning communities and virtual teams.
FIT so far is a user and provider of open source developments. As a member of Fraunhofer, the largest research organisation in Europe, and the Fraunhofer Information and Communication group and the eGovernment centre, its influence goes well beyond the institute.
We will base our work in tOSSad (WP2) on the experience of these groups to contribute to the development of strategies and roadmaps and then utilize the dissemination channels of Fraunhofer to lobby the envisioned roadmaps in governmental and enterprise organisations. We see tOSSad as an opportunity to strengthen the use of F/OSS in addition as well as an alternative to proprietary systems. It paves the way towards new products and services for our customers and raises interesting research questions. Additionally, it provides us an opportunity to establish contact to new partners in an interesting and important domain.