The new collaboration will be centered on information technology for the family and will include communication, sharing of common information, and other family based services.
Families are tight and complex social structures.
Family members share a history and know each other's personalities and preferences. The new project will investigate and design IT-support for family life. The two main issues of the project are to develop real and prototype applications and services demonstrating technology enabled social awareness and to investigate the platform requirements needed to create applications and services for the family.