Technology Watch Activity

 The FLUIDS Technolgy Watch Reports are to capture the most recent research progress in major research areas to be addressed in FLUIDS :

• user modeling,
• intelligent user interfaces,
• multimedia information presentation for decision support systems (including Virtual Reality),
• natural language generation,
• knowledge-based graphics generation.

A global view is taken to allow for international benchmarking of technology used in FLUIDS . Each monthly issue of the five initial reports concentrates on a particular topic at a time. After the initial phase, the Technology Watch will be continued by preparing a monthly FLUIDS Bulletin during the whole remaining project duration. These bulletins keep the initial reports updated. The FLUIDS Bulletin also includes pointers to relevant conferences, workshops, and related information sources on the Web. The deliverables of the technology watch activity will be made available in electronic form for publication on the Telematics Engineering server , which is under development in the project NECTAR (Networked Electronic Storage and Communication of Telematics Application Programme Results). The following sections present a collection of the technology watch results for each research area. Links to the separate reports are included as well. The information presented here has been compiled by Gerd Herzog . Elisabeth André , Mathias Bauer , Winfried Graf , Wolfgang Finkler , Gino Franco, Clemens Huwig , Elisabeth Maier , Peter Poller , Wolfgang Wahlster , and most notably Thomas Rist provided helpful comments and suggestions throughout this activity. Their support is gratefully acknowledged.