Mr. Ian O'Keeffe

Summary

Funding Agency

Enterprise Ireland

Programme

Technology Centres

Summary

The challenge for PERCOLATE was to design and develop research demonstrators aligned to the specific business needs of our industry partners. We developed a collaborative approach with industry, resulting in a suite of next practice learning technology solutions. Tomorrow's learning must be a more flexible, personalised experience where technology supports learning outside traditional environments. Our research solutions provide innovative learning technologies for informal and formal learning within schools, higher education and organisations.

Funding Agency

Enterprise Ireland

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Funding Agency

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)

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GRAPPLE is an EU FP7 STREP Project. GRAPPLE stands for "Generic Responsive Adaptive Personalized Learning Environment". The GRAPPLE project aims at delivering to learners a technology-enhanced learning (TEL) environment that guides them through a life-long learning experience, automatically adapting to personal preferences, prior knowledge, skills and competences, learning goals and the personal or social context in which the learning takes place. The same TEL environment can be used/accessed at home, school, work or on the move (using mobile/handheld devices). GRAPPLE will include authoring tools that enable educators to provide adaptive learning material to the learners, including adaptive interactive components (visualizations, simulations, virtual reality). Authoring includes creating or importing content, assigning or extracting meaning from that content, designing learning activities and defining pedagogical properties of and adaptation strategies for the content and activities

Funding Agency

European Commission

Programme

FP7

Project Type

Strategic Targeted Research Project (STREP)

Summary

The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) is a dynamic Academia-Industry partnership with over 100 researchers developing novel technologies addressing the key localisation challenges of volume, access and personalisation. Language barriers constitute a formidable obstacle to the free flow of information, products and services in an increasingly globalised economy and information society. "Localisation" refers to the process of adapting digital content to culture, locale and linguistic environments at high quality and speed. Localisation is a key enabling, value-adding, multiplier component of the global software and content distribution industry. Localisation seeks to overcome language barriers. Our objective is to produce substantial advances in the basic and applied research underpinning the design, implementation and evaluation of the blueprints for the Next Generation Localisation Factory. Our mission is to revolutionise localisation via breakthroughs in automation, composition and integration, focusing on: Integrated machine translation technology, Speech-based interfaces and more personalised speech output, Multilingual digital content management for personalised multilingual content access and delivery, Localisation workflows and system integration.

Funding Agency

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)

Project Type

Centres for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET)