Deliverables

The following deliverables from TA2 are publicly available

Deliverable Title	More information
TA2 Evaluation Concepts (February 2010)	Please click here for abstract
Management of complex collaborative R&D projects - best practices (January 2010)	Please click here for abstract
Market Perspective - Version 1 (July 2009)	Please click here for abstract
Electronic Newsletter - issue 2 (July 2009)	Please click here for abstract
Evaluation Plan (April 2009)	Please click here for abstract
Business Model - Feasibility Framework (December 2008)	Please click here for abstract
Design and market insights (September 2008)	Please click here for abstract
Electronic Newsletter - issue 1 (September 2008)	Please click here for abstract
Project Description (April 2008)	Please click here for abstract

Deliverables in progress

Deliverable Title	Estimated issue date
Electronic Newsletter - issue 3	May 2010
Business Model Feasibility Assessment (version 1)	July 2010

Abstract (Project Description)
This TA2 project description provides an-easy-to-read overview of the TA2 project, its objectives, structure, architecture, methodologies, productions and partners The overall goal of TA2 is to make communications and engagement easier among groups of people separated in space and time. Hence the project will explore how technology can support group-to-group communication. One of its main questions is “How can technology help to nurture family-to-family relationships?”.

Target audience
Anyone interested in the question how modern telecommunication technologies can help people who are separated in space and time to keep up their group relationships

Abstract (Newletter Issue 1)
The TA2 Newsletters inform every few months anybody interested about the TA2 project and its results. In this Newsletter you get a short introduction to the TA2 project, read about the importance of audio for natural communications, get a brief view of the TA2 design and market issues, read about user centeredness of communication, and get informed about the five TA2 concept demonstrators.

Target audience
Anybody interested in natural communication between groups of people separated in space and time.

Abstract (Design and Market insights)
The challenge of TA2 is to develop new, representative, ICT based media experiences that support the social interaction between families (or groups of people) who are already firm friends. This report provides insights from the business, societal as well as user experience perspective in order to support design and implementation decisions. By providing an overview on relevant developments, this report serves as the basis for evaluating the TA2 concept demonstrators with real people, for developing a best practice and for providing a common shared understanding within the consortium on the current market for applications helping people to nurture their relationships.

Target audience
This deliverable serves as a basis for a broad public, the TA2 consortium and the Commission to estimate and forecast the market, business, social, privacy and user experience issues for the TA2 products and services. It is interesting for everybody who has a stake in togetherness related to use and development of innovative, interactive digital multimedia products.

Abstract (Business Model - Feasibility Framework)
The challenge of TA2 is to develop new, representative, ICT based media experiences that support the social interaction between families (or groups of people) who are already firm friends. This report provides a feasibility framework concept in order to evaluate the TA2 concept demonstrators. Goal of this framework is to assess the demonstrators on their feasibility and attractiveness for the end users.

Target audience
This deliverable describes critical issues for designing TA2 services and is interesting for everybody who has a stake in togetherness related to use and development of innovative, interactive digital multimedia products.

Abstract (Evaluation Plan)
TA2 will develop systems and products with which users will interact and are intended to enable enjoyable sociable experiences that can be shared by groups of people in separate households. An understanding of user experience and of social communication is required. The experiences we seek to develop TA2 systems depend heavily on mediated communication, hence an understanding of mediated communication is required. This document provides an innovative analysis of these distinct fields of research. This work is focused on communications between groups of people, whereas current theory on social communications often uses a psychological perspective based on the perspective of an individual. The evaluation plan is based on further work on the UX framework and the technical development of TA2 demonstrators in 2009 and the beginning of 2010, placed in a context of human centred design.

Target audience
This deliverable describes critical issues for evaluating and designing TA2 services and is interesting for everybody who has a stake in togetherness related to use and development of innovative, interactive digital multimedia products. It is especially important for vision holders and technical integrators within the TA2 project.

Abstract (Newletter Issue 2)
The TA2 Newsletters inform every few months anybody interested about the TA2 project and its results. In this Newsletter you get informed about the TA2 progress, read about the TA2 design methodology, get information about the status of the TA2 concept demonstrators, read why low delay audio and video are so important for natural communications, and learn about TA2 at conferences .

Target audience
Anybody interested in natural communication between groups of people separated in space and time.

Abstract (Market Perspective - Version 1)
The challenge of TA2 is to develop new, representative, ICT based media experiences that support the social interaction between families or groups of people who are already firm friends. This report provides an overview of the current market perspective and critical factors of TA2 services, based upon the study of a number of existing services relevant to TA2.

Abstract (Management of complex collaborative R&D projects - best practices)
The main purpose of this deliverable is to identify the challenges involved in the management of complex collaborative R&D projects and to describe some best practices that can help overcome them. The best practices related to three broad areas, People, Processes, and Results.
TA2 has identified, developed and adopted a number of best practices to deal with the challenges it has recognised. Ten best practices have been selected for this document. These best practices have been gained mainly within the TA2 project.

Target Audience
Everybody interested in the management of large international R&D projects.

Abstract (TA Evaluation Concepts)
The project TA2 (Together Anywhere, Together Anytime TA2) seeks to understand how technology can be used to nurture relationships between groups of people who already know each other well. The project will build a number of prototype social media applications incorporating range of innovative technology elements and will assess the impact of the technology on the ability of groups of people to nurture their social relationships. To do this effectively we require theoretical frameworks that adequately describe relationships within and between groups of people and a method or range of methods that can be used to make assessments.
This document identifies a number of different theoretical social science concepts relating to relationships within and between groups. Whilst no one concept is sufficient for our purposes the document suggests that they can be used as a framework within which assessments can be made. An attempt to identify a more rigorous social science based definition of the term “togetherness” is described.
The document goes on to describe how different evaluation methods can be used within a participatory design process to help evaluate whether the goals of the project are being met. The results of six early evaluation experiments are described.

Target audience

This document is for people interested in social mediating systems, social media and the application of social and user experience theory in this area. Furthermore people interested in the process of design research for social media and the obtained results from design research within TA2 will find this document interesting. There is only basic knowledge in the areas described above needed to read and understand this report.