Hydra is affilliated with the following programs and organisations:
The Hydra coordinater FhG FIT is a member of ARTEMISIA, the association for R&D actors in the field of ARTEMIS: Advanced Research & Technology for EMbedded Intelligence and Systems.
The Hydra middleware allows developers to create inclusive applications with a high degree of accessibility for all. The Hydra project supports the Commissions campaign: eInclusion - be part of it!
The Hydra project is part of the Cluster of European projects on the Internet of Things. The Cluster aims to promote a common vision of the Internet of Things.
Why not see the on-line Hydrademo? You can turn on and off devices and follow the energy consumption in real time. Just click on the picture and you see it!
The objective of this project is to explore and create environments in
which computers serve humans who focus on interacting with other humans
as opposed to having to attend to and being preoccupied by the machines
themselves. Instead of computers operating in an isolated manner, and
humans [thrust] in the loop [of computers] CHIL puts Computers in the
Human Interaction Loop (CHIL). CHIL designs Technologies and Computer
Services that model humans and the state of their activities and
intentions. A complete perceptual context enables a family of CHIL
computing services that provide helpful assistance implicitly, requiring
a minimum of human attention or interruptions.
To achieve this overall vision, a broad set of key
scientific issues is proposed:
Multimodal
Perceptual User Interfaces that observe, recognize, fuse, and
interpret all available cues and clues to explain human-human
activities and intentions.
A
suite of Services that instantiate CHIL Computing based on
perceptual context awareness and understanding of human activity.
A
supportive infrastructure that supports CHIL Services including
autonomic computing, self-healing and self-maintaining software,
flexible architecture, and a networked infrastructure integrating
numerous devices intermittently and dynamically.
Relevance to HYDRA:
One of main possible
contributions of CHIL project to HYDRA is the design of interfaces
directly centred on observation and processing of human behaviour,
activities and intentions. The services proposed in CHIL projects are
designed to provide the continual supportfor context modelling by recognition and interpretation of human
behaviour.
The Hydra project is co-funded by the 
