ImREAL Project Presentation
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The imreal project, supported by the European Commission, aims to enhance the learning experience in simulated environments by aligning it with real-world contexts through innovative technologies. Key objectives include developing meta-cognitive scaffolding, integrating augmented learning services, and conducting evaluations in domains like multicultural communication and medical training. With a total funding of €4,189,261, the project seeks to create effective virtual reality training tools that adapt to users' needs and environments.
ImREAL Project Presentation
- 1. Project presentation Lucia Pannese - imaginary The ImREAL project is supported by the European Commission, in the theme ICT-2009 Digital Libraries and technology-enhanced learning, as a Specific Targeted Research Projects (STREP), under the 7th Framework Programme, Grant agreement No:ICT-257831 internal
- 2. 2/9 Project goal The key challenge addressed in ImREAL is: How to effectively align the learning experience in the simulated environment with the ‘real’ world context and the ‘day-to-day’ job practice where the skills are deployed. ImREAL’s goal is to develop a novel ImREAL’ conceptual framework and innovative semantic-enhanced intelligent services to augment existing simulated environments with adaptive meta-cognitive scaffolding in a cost- effective way. www.imreal-project.eu Milano, 22-04-2012
- 3. 3/9 Rationale of the project The creation of effective Virtual reality training by developing a simulated learning simulation tools that adapt to trainees’ past environment focusing on simulation systems experiences or preconceptions is extremely for interpersonal communication in challenging. Researchers working on the multicultural environments that responds to ImREAL project are aiming at closing the gap users’ behaviour and adapt accordingly to the between the ‘real-world’ and the ‘virtual-world’ user model. www.imreal-project.eu Milano, 22-04-2012
- 4. 4/9 Domain and Use cases To validate the conceptual framework, examine Scenarios: Initial Scenarios: the pedagogical value of the new technological solutions, facilitate exploitation and • medical environment dissemination, and enable the realisation of the • buddy programs project impact, ImREAL will implement a robust • job interviews services demonstrator which will be trialled in a representative domain with high societal and economical importance, namely: interpersonal communication focusing on multi-cultural awareness. www.imreal-project.eu Milano, 22-04-2012
- 5. 5/9 Target Sectors Business: training managers and employees to on already existing instances of the simulators, deal with cultural diversity in key activities. The including interpersonal communication main goal of this use case is to show training of medical students language/simulator independence, considering or training student advisers. cultural contexts in the business sector. Volunteer: training volunteers how to deal with Academic: training students or student people in distressed situations. advisers. The main goal of this use case is to The main goal of this use case is to illustrate have a low risk high impact use case based dealing with extreme emotional cases. www.imreal-project.eu Milano, 22-04-2012
- 6. 6/9 Facts and Figures Project type: Small or medium-scale focused research project (STREP) Funding body: European Commission, ICT, Framework 7 Funding scheme: Collaborative project Start date: 01 October 2010 Duration: 36 months Total value: € 4,189,261 EU funding: € 3,220,000 Join ImREAL on LinkedIn: ImREAL Twitter: ImREAL_project Facebook: Facebook: ImREAL www.imreal-project.eu Milano, 22-04-2012
- 7. 7/9 Project Objectives Reality modelling: develop a methodology and innovative services to model ‘real’ world activities and capture semantically-enhanced collective content of job-related experiences; Alignment between reality and simulated environment: develop novel services to derive an extended model of the simulated situation context and a model of the learner; Meta- Meta-cognitive scaffolding: develop a pedagogically-driven technological solution to generate adaptive affective meta-cognitive activities in simulated environments; Tuning: provide a flexible way to tune the augmentation services by using feedback from learners, trainers, and tutors; Integration: develop an integrated architecture of services for augmented simulated experiential learning and implement robust demonstrators to augment existing simulated experiential learning environments; Evaluation: evaluate how augmented simulated experiential learning affects learning efficacy in the representative domain; Readiness for the market: assess how ready the innovative approach is for commercialisation and deployment in practice. www.imreal-project.eu Milano, 22-04-2012
- 8. 8/9 The consortium The ImREAL project is supported by the European Commission, in the theme ICT-2009 Digital Libraries and Technology- Enhanced Learning, as a Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP), under the 7th Framework Programme, Grant agreement No: ICT-257831. www.imreal-project.eu Milano, 22-04-2012
- 9. Contacts: Project coordinator: Dissemination office: Vania Dimitrova Lucia Pannese University of Leeds, United Kingdom imaginary srl Phone: +44 113 343 1674 Phone: +39 02 89458576 Email: V.G.Dimitrova@leeds.ac.uk Email: lucia.pannese@i-maginary.it Thank you www.imreal-project.eu Milano, 22-04-2012