The future of family interaction

The TA2 vision:
Making communications and engagement easier
among groups of people separated in space and time.

How can technology help to nurture family-to-family relationships? This was the question asked by the collaborative project "Together Anywhere, Together Anytime"(TA2).

For many people, families form the key social unit. Many of our enduring experiences, holidays, celebrations and moments of fun and laughter are framed as family events. This is something that current technology does not address well: modern media and communications serve individuals best, with phones, computers and electronic games devices tending to be individually owned and providing individual experiences. TA2 tried to redress this imbalance, by exploring how technology can support group to group communication.

If you want to see an example of a typical TA2 family interaction scenario please click here

TA2 was an Integrating Project within the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7) and received funding from the European Commission. The project was finalised and closed in March 2012.

At the end of the project a book was issued summarising the results of the TA2 project.
You can order your copy of the book.

Please click here for more details and order information.