Project - EXPERIMEDIA -- Experiments in live social and networked Media experiences
Connecting places, people, and media through real-world Future Media Internet experimentation.
- Financed by
- FP7 - 7th Framework Programme
- Duration
Overview
IN2 led the design, implementation, and execution of the DigitalSchladming experiment within the EXPERIMEDIA project, exploring how Future Media Internet (FMI) technologies can enhance live, online, and augmented visitor experiences in a real-world tourism setting. The experiment focused on Schladming as a single venue ecosystem, ensuring measurable impact for visitors, local stakeholders, and service providers.
IN2 adapted and integrated existing research platforms such as euTV and FollowThePlace with EXPERIMEDIA baseline components, delivering two core services: Schladming Pinboard, a public, information-rich regional media channel, and MySchladming, a personalised multimedia hub for end users. These services enabled aggregation, indexing, and visual exploration of social, web, and multimedia content.
The work followed an iterative, agile experimentation methodology, with winter and summer deployment cycles. IN2 was responsible for experiment design, system set-up, deployment, monitoring, assessment, and refinement, ensuring robustness, scalability, and usability under real operational conditions while collecting user and stakeholder feedback.
Finally, IN2 led the evaluation, dissemination, and exploitation activities, producing experiment reports, public case studies, and recommendations for the EXPERIMEDIA facility itself. The outcomes strengthened IN2’s know-how in FMI technologies and directly informed the evolution of its commercial platforms for socially engaging, location-based digital services.
Achievements:
- Designed and executed the DigitalSchladming large-scale experiment in a real tourism environment
- Developed and deployed Pinboard and MySchladming services for public and personalised media engagement
- Integrated social media, web feeds, and multimedia content into location-based digital experiences
- Validated Future Media Internet technologies through real-world, multi-season pilots
- Collected and analysed user and stakeholder feedback to refine services and measure impact
Our role
- Future Media Internet experimentation
- Location-based digital experiences
- Multimedia aggregation & indexing
- Distributed service orchestration
- Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation
