Activities

July 2010	New TA2 Brochure is available
May 2010	TA2 opens Twitter channel
1-5 March 2010	TA2 partner Fraunhofer IIS presents at a stand at Cebit 2010 : Advances in the Audio Communication Engine
1 March 2010	Finishing contract negotiation for adding new partner BRNO Technical University into TA2
February 2010	TA2 opens its YouTube Channel "ta2project"
3-4 February 2010	TA2 Technical Manager Doug Williams from TA2 partner BT moderates a session on practical experiences in exploitation at the User Centric Media cluster concertation meeting in Brussels
11 December 2009	TA2 organises a workshop at the User Centric Media Conference in Venice on Experience Design and Evaluation of Social UCM applications
23 November2009	Keynote speech by Peter Ljungstrand from TA2 partner Interactive Institute at Future Internet Assembly in Stockholm on societal and cross disciplinary issues
27 October 2009	Application for TA2 extension with a new partner BRNO Technical University from Czech Republic (under Objective ICT-2009.9.5: Supplements to Strengthen Cooperation in ICT R&D in an Enlarged Europe)
October 2010	Worldwide first orchestration trials on audio/video orchestration for group to group social communications at Goldsmiths video studios
4-9 September 2009	TA2 partner Fraunhofer IIS presents at a s tand at IFA 2009 : Telepresence for family game applications of the highest audio quality
1 September 2009	Press release from TA2 partner Fraunhofer IIS: Telepresence for the living room
24 June 2009	Why do we need a content-centric Future Internet? - A paper from the Future Internet Assemby on content-centric Internet architectures Download of the paper
3 June 2009	TA2 organises a EuroITV 2009 Workshop: "Enhancing Social Communication and Belonging by Integrating TV Narrativity and Game-Play" Details of the Workshop
10 March 2009	Press release from TA2 partner TNO: Future social media: ‘family’ togetherness anytime anywhere
3-8 March 2009	TA2 partner Fraunhofer IIS presents at a s tand at Cebit 2009 : Audio Communication Engine installed in a home telepresence environment. This takes the form of two separate but connected living rooms, and illustrates the ease with which friends and family can take part in games and conversation.
14-20 February 2009	TA2 partner Fraunhofer IIS presents at a s tand at the Mobile World Congress : Two phone boxes connected via Fraunhofer Audio Communication Engine, handsfree communication, on the fly comparison to Skype.
19 February 2009	Press releases from TA2 partner Fraunhofer IIS: Fraunhofer Audio Communication Engine for teleconferencing of unprecedented quality (English) Fraunhofer Audio Communication Engine: Beste Qualität für Telekonferenzen (Deutsch)
25-27 November 2008	TA2 partner Eurescom organises a Networking Session on "Managing ICT projects in FP7 – exchange of best practices" ICT 2008, 25-27 November in Lyon.
27 October - 1 November 2008	Best paper award: "Enhancing Social Sharing of Videos: Fragment, Annotate, Enrich, and Share" ACM Multimedia Conference 2008, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 11-20 P. Cesar
16-19 September 2008	Best paper award: "Enabling adaptive time-based web applications with SMIL state". ACM symposium on Document engineering 2008, Sao Paulo, Brazil, pp. 18-27 J. Jansen, D.C.A. Bulterman
2-4 July 2008	Best paper award: "Usages of the Secondary Screen in an Interactive Television Environment: Control, Enrich, Share, and Transfer Television Content" EurolTV 2008 Conference, Salzburg, Austria, pp.168-177 P. Cesar, D.C.A. Bulterman, and A.J. Jansen
June 2008	The TA2 project brochure is available as pdf for download
31 March 2008	TA2 joins the "Future Internet Assembly" at the Bled Conference
20-22 February 2008	The TA2 project starts with a kick-off meeting in Martigny, Switzerland