The field of free content on public (e.g. Internet) or private networks is in a deep transformation, because of the digitization of most of the existing files, the diversification of media and devices. The multiplication of data and digital knowledge available through search engines, of video on-demand,  of exchange and tagging boards or social networks [...]

_ I-Matériel.Lab is the laboratory of the uses of mobility serving the cultural patrimony and the tourism. It is particularly dedicated to innovation, new media, intelligent objects (smartphones, touchscreen tablets, communicative tools…). i-Matériel.Lab has been certified as a laboratory of uses in May 2011 by the European Commission within the livinglabs networks (ENoLL). A LivingLab is a [...]

Le domaine des contenus accessibles depuis les réseaux publics (e.g. Internet) ou privés est dans une phase de transformation profonde, du fait de la numérisation de la plupart des documents existants, de la diversification des médias et des terminaux. La multiplication des informations et des connaissances numériques accessibles à travers les moteurs de recherche, la [...]

L’IRI est heureux d’annoncer la venue prochaine d’Harry Halpin. Auteur d’une thèse (Sense and Reference on the Web) réalisée sous la direction d’Henry Thompson et Andy Clark à l’Université d’Édimbourg, H. Halpin fut le premier à parler d’une philosophie du Web. Il est également passé par le W3C où il est en charge du Federated [...]

CineLab How and why can we comment a movie with a cellphone when we come out of the theaters with friends, or within the framework of an exhibition on Cinema at the Pompidou Center ?  The question at stake deals with more than the scientifical problems raised by the synchronization with the stream of comments and [...]

Blinkster: The Proxima Mobile project Partners : Eureva, IRI, Institut Télécom Paris Sud, Orange Labs, LaboGroup SAS Blinkster is a free, simple and accessible software answering directly to our daily need for informations through the resources of the internet. It can be used via most mobile phones; it is easy to use for all, with a very simple [...]

The audiovisual contents and among them movies are more and more accessible to the public (mass diffusion of DVDs, growth of VoD websites and IPTV, use of vastly collaborative websites for the promotion of movies). The social and cultural ambition of this project is to facilitate the enrichment of contents and the sharing of point [...]

TICTAC : Trajectory of Ideas and Cooperations of Actors in the dynamic of Creation Type of project : ANR, Social Sciences Partners : CEA-LID, IRI, LISST Timeline : september 2009-September 2011 How the analysis of video image can help us understand the process of creativity ? What specific tools do we have to develop to be able to skim through [...]

Digitalize, preserve, and enable access to audiovisual archives, notably ethnographical items and recorded interviews, are one of the prime mission of searchers and museums and in the field of Social Sciences. AnthropoNet wants to go even further to enable new forms of publications opened to contribution and participation from the public. The main goal is [...]

1. The main challenges of the VHB (Very High Bandwidth technologies) In France, internet access through VHB (THD in french) via optical fiber should reach more than 5 millions users by 2012, and this growth should start taking on the market share of ADSL as soon as 2010 (Lemonde.fr). These telecommunication technologies of FFTx type (direct [...]