A summary of my personal expertise and knowledge completed by a description of some of the most relevant research and developments engagements carried out so far via specific examples

1. David Luigi FUSCHI
Who am I, what I know, what I do
and would like to do

2. Who am I
A Systems Engineer
A Project Manager
An international Evaluator & Reviewer
A Teacher & Trainer
A problem solver
A Chairman & Director of an SME

3. Which are my affiliations
IEEE & ACM (Senior member)
IET Institution of Engineering &Technology
PMI Project Management Institute
UKIF UK Innovation Forum Executive Club
NEM Networked & Electronic Media
NESSI Networked European Software and Services
Initiative
STAR Socio-Economic Trends Assessment for the Digital
Revolution experts group

4. Whom I work with
EU
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IST (# EX2002B008660)
CIP-PSP (#EXICTPSP6456)
EACI (#EX2008C003792)
EUREKA! Programme
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (IET)
UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB)
Polish-Norwegian R&D Programme
Qatar National Research Fund

5. Whom I work with
Italian industrial research, innovation
& technology transfer program
Kazakh Research Programme (under
negotiation)
Reading University ISR/IMSS
Brunel Business School
Brandon Hall Excellence Award

6. Member of
Professional Advisory Board of Health
Psychology Management
Organisation Services Ltd
Scientific committee of the HICSS /
EMCIS / ECLAP / Je-LKS / IJCNIS /
MWCN
CEN-ISSS – WS-LT Learning
Technology work group, APLR

7. Research fields
e-Learning / e-Publishing
Multimedia
Quality Assurance
Work Flow Management
Customer Relationship Management
Change & Configuration Management
Network Management
SW Automation & Security

8. Most recent activities
Content & Knowledge management
HCI & innovative interfacing to C/KMS
ICT applications in Cultural Heritage &
Tourism
Digital content processing
e- / m-Learning & the Semantic web

9. Strong points
Management skills
Problem solving
Innovation & creativity
Attention to quality & communication
Public relations
Commitment
Responsibility
Multi-national / cultural awareness

10. Results & Achievements
Management
Over 80 international and national
projects successful completion.
Over 12 project rescued from failure to
successful completion.
Assessment of over 98 international
and national projects

11. Results & Achievements
Publications
~30 scientific articles
3 journal papers
9 position papers
6 tutorials
a case-study
a book chapter

12. Working method
Quality oriented management &
development
Constant attention to possible risks
Systemic approach to analysis & design
Modular approach to development
Systemic approach to assessment
Service oriented approach to
deployment
Exploitation of achieved results

13. Research methodology
Thorough analysis, functional
decomposition & modelling
Generalisation of possible approaches
SWOT analysis of possible solutions
Identification of candidate solution(s)
Definition of an abstract layered model
Progressive re-application of constraints
Spiral approach to development
Metrics based results evaluation

14. Contextualized examples
WEB-KIT
 TUI
exploitation in eLearning
FLIC
 Adaptation
of impairment support
technology to language learning
AXMEDIS
 Cross-media
content production

15. WEB-KIT IST-2001-34171
Topic: Intuitive physical Interface to
the Web
Issue: the reviewers asked for a
cultural heritage demonstrator mid
way the project
Solution: define, design, develop,
deploy and evaluate a full application,
and its scenarios (in 1/3 of the time)

16. Followed approach
Analysis of the issue and context
Definition of a set of possible solutions
Identification of best-fit one
Contingency planning for deployment
& management
Communication to partners and EU
Approval achievement
Development, deployment and testing

17. WEB-KIT test case ASTRAL
A specific target usage scenario for a
TUI based experience within museums
for K12 users and tourists
An extension scenario for application in
simulation based training for hazard /
security management training
Modular design
Rapid prototyping based development
Tested in real environment by users

18. WEB-KIT Architecture
GUI
TUI
TUI Client
TUI application
server
Personal
Mediation
Personal
Agent
Mediation
Agent
Siter
AMIS
(at PMI
host)
Lobster
Instantiation
CAMS
Mobile
Agent
Launcher
Profiler
TUI
Application
TUI
Agent TUI
Application
Agent
Application
Agent
SOAP
HTTP
File I/O
PQL
Mobile
Agent
Mobile
(base)
Agent
Mobile
(base)
Agent
Mobile
(base)
Agent
(base)
Query Processor
LOR
Mobile Agent
Receiving
Server
Mobile
Agent
Mobile
(base)
Agent
Mobile
(base)
Agent
Mobile
(base)
Agent
(scout)
Packager
LOR
Manager
HARVESTER
AMIS
(at harvester
host)

19. Adopted LOM structure
Associated RFID
identifier
Purpose
Source
TaxonPath
Taxon
Classification
Description
Keywords
ID
Entry
Taxon
Description used to identify the correct
classification / Classification ID used to locate in
MetaData RFID related information
Content package keywords used to connect
content packages among them

20. RFIDs and Meta Data
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
…
- <manifest identifier="Etichetta1"
xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imscp_v1p1"
xmlns:xp="http://www.giuntilabs.com/exact/xp_v1d0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imscp_v1p1
imscp_v1p1p3.xsd http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsmd_v1p2
imsmd_v1p2p2.xsd http://www.giuntilabs.com/exact/xp_v1d0 xp_v1d0.xsd"
version="1.0">
- <metadata>
Content package Title
<schema>IMS Content</schema>
<schemaversion>1.1</schemaversion>
- <lom xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsmd_v1p2">
- <general>
Content package type
- <title>
<langstring xml:lang="x-none">Spring (et)</langstring>
</title>
…
- <version>
<langstring xml:lang="x-none">mobile</langstring>
</version>
…
Content package
- <metametadata>
keywords used to
<metadatascheme>LOMv1.0</metadatascheme>
connect content
<language>en</language>
</metametadata>
packages among them
…
- <classification>
- <keyword>
<langstring xml:lang="x-none">et1</langstring>
</keyword>
</classification>

21. RFIDs and Meta Data
- <classification xmlns="">
- <taxonpath>
- <taxon>
- <entry>
<langstring
xml:lang="en">004E58230800000001</lan
gstring>
</entry>
</taxon>
</taxonpath>
- <description>
<langstring
xml:lang="en">RFID_TAG_ID_List</langstring>
</description>
</classification>
</lom>
</metadata>
- <organizations default="xp_man0_toc1">
- <organization identifier="xp_man0_toc1">
<title>default</title>
- <item identifier="xp_man0_toc1_352" identifierref="res354"
isvisible="true">
<title>Spring</title>
</item>
</organization>
</organizations>
- <resources>
- <resource identifier="res354" href="Spring.html" type="webcontent">
<file href="Spring.html" />
</resource>
</resources>
</manifest>
End of IMS Manifest 1.1 generated by eXact Packager
Associated RFID
identifier
Classification ID used to
locate in MetaData RFID
related information

22. Foreseen scenarios
B
Exhibitor box
W
T
W
Working stations
T
RFID Tag
R
RFIDs Reader
X
R
B2
X
T
T
X
X
B1
T
XII XXI
B3
T
X
B4
X
X
X
T
Interaction points
T
B9
X
T
R
W
T
B5
X
B6
B10
T
X
X
R
W
T
T
B11
X
T
B7
T
X
B14
X
R
W
B13
X
X
X
T
X
B12
T
T
Please note that room internal layout is purely symbolic and has just an explanatory
meaning. The actual layout will be taken into account in the experimentation final
design and will also take into account all the possible constraint that the Museum
will raise.

23. Office
X
W
T
R
M
T
X
X
X
X
X
M
T
X
X
Plant A
X
X
T
M
M
Working stations
M
T
X
Machinery model
W
X
X
X
T
X
M
M
T
T
M
T
RFID Tag
T
M
X
T
R
Interaction points
T
Plant B
X
X
RFIDs Reader
M
X
M
X
X
X
X
X
X
X

24. WEB-KIT and IMSS
A possible seed for proposals and
developments in:
 Cultural
heritage / tourism
 Virtual- / augmented-reality simulations
 New HCI definition for CMS / LCMS /
KMS / CRM
 New HCI definitions for life long learning
& training

25. FLIC IST-2001-38974
Topic: Foreign language acquisition
through the instinct of a child
Issue: the reviewers asked for a
publisher oriented demonstrator mid
way the project
Solution: define, design, develop,
deploy and evaluate a full application
and its scenarios (in 1/2 of the time)

26. Followed approach
Analysis of the issue and context
Definition of a possible scenario
Contingency planning for set-up,
deployment, validation & management
Communication to partners and EU
Approval achievement
Set-up, deployment, training,
assessment and reporting

27. The case study
An extensive analysis of language
learning market and methods
A specific usage scenario for a FLIC
based training in a SME (also easily
applicable to language labs market…)
Validation via self assessment and tutor
evaluation
Expert analysis of validation data to
overcome small sample size

28. Content structure analysis
Theme
Target language selection
Entry Test
Unit 1
Unit m
…
Language course main menu
(if the user took the entry test, the system will suggest a recomended course and therefore associated path - named "default")
Content 1
Content 2
Content k
Content 1
Content 2
Exercise 1
Exercise 1
Exercise 1
Exercise 1
Exercise 1
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Basic
Exercise 2
Exercise 2
Basic
Drill down 1
Basic
Basic
Drill down 1
Drill down 1
Drill down 2
Course 3
Course 4
Course 5
Course 6
Exercise 3
Drill down 1
Course 2
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Course 1
Content j
Basic
Default path
To next course reccomendadtion
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Unit 6
Unit 7
Basic
Unit 1
Unit 8
Unit 9
Unit 10
Unit 11
Unit 12 (test)
Remedial path (following low scoring)
Drill down 1
Drill down n
Drill down 2
Drill down n
On-line help
Drill down 2
Drill down n
User results
Drill down 1
Drill down n
Drill down n
Drill down n
A possible content structure delivered in units with exercises & drill downs
Tools
Services

29. Content structure analysis

30. Authoring Content for FLIC
Dummy head and related recording set-up
Specific technology for recording
Specific structuring of content
Focused activity organisation

31. Lateralisation
Student Voice in Mic
Model Voice on CD
Left Ear
FLIC
S
Right Ear
Time
Method designed to support training to
overcome dyslexia
Proven to have neurologically effects
by Sheffield University

32. Multi Channel Voice Fusion
Left
Model Voice on CD
Student Voice in Mic
Right
Channel split into bands
Channel-1
Channel-2
Channel-3
Channel-4
Channel-5
Channel-6
Channel-6
Channel-7
Channel-7
Channel-8
S
Channel-4
Channel-5
FLIC
Channel-1
Channel-2
Channel-3
Channel-8
Channel bands mix
T0
T1
Time
Channel-1
Channel-2
Channel-3
Channel-1
Channel-2
Channel-3
Channel-4
Channel-5
Channel-4
Channel-5
Channel-6
Channel-6
Channel-7
Channel-7
Channel-8
Channel-8

33. FLIC configurations used
S – Student
C – CD player
T – Teacher
S – Student
C – CD player
T
S
C
FLIC
C1
FLIC
– Line out
– Line in
– Line out
– Line in
S
C2
S
T – Teacher
S – Student
C – CD player
T
C
FLIC
– Line out
– Line in
S
S

34. FLIC and IMSS
A possible seed for proposals in:
 Education
and language training
A possible seed for developments of:
 Innovative
products for language labs
 Embedded systems for language
learning support for professionals &
end users

35. AXMEDIS IST-2-511299
Topic: automated cross media
content production for multichannel
distribution
Issue: achieve a high quality,
template based content production via
automated content repurposing
Solution: provide the expertise of
publishers for content production
process description and modeling

36. Followed approach
Collect cases and best practices of
content production in the various media
Properly describe processes, practices
and tools
Model & formalise the workflow
underpinning addressed process
Support and mentor developers in their
efforts to best meet publishers needs
and expectations (via testing)

37. The Kiosk case
A scenario for a semi-automated based
content production within a museum
easily extendible to include asset
management
An integrated content production
among distributed actors supported by
WFM with extensive usage of templates
Rapid prototyping based development

38. AXMEDIS and IMSS
A possible seed for :
 Extension
of template based content
production for CMS / LCMS / KMS
 Adoption of new/advanced WFM
techniques in publishing environment
 Content accessibility improvement via
production process modification
 Automated generation of smart content
 Consultancy on WFM to publishers

39. Content modelling
A functional template for
the content is designed
(including navigation
controls…)
A language related
structural template is
created (adding a
language choice layer)
The two are combined in
the final content

40. Sources & adopted method
Device capabilities
Keywords
expressing
preferences
User
Preferences
Keywords
expressing
preferences
Device dependent
content
Keywords
expressing
capabilities
Content
User
Preferences
Filtering based on
Preferences
Content
Key parameters
Filtering &
Adaptation
Filtered content
Filtering based on
capabilities
Ready to use
content
Device
Capabilities
Ready to use
content
Ready to
use content
Delivery
User fruition

41. Templates & rules
Title
Content view on
PC
Content view on
PDA
Image,
Video,
Animation
Title
Thumbnails of the selected image collection
Text
Browse/read flow
}
Current display
area on PC
Content visible on PC/PDA
Content visible on PC only
Browse/read flow
Current display
area on PC
Original content page
Original & transformed
content page

42. Thank you!
Please feel free to ask me any
question.