LONG-TERM USE

The most important long-term commercial utilization of the results of POEMS is that all VR applications involving simulated movement of the observer should be able to benefit from the results of the project. In particular, we expect that the project's results will be used when designing simulations involving all kinds of spatial tasks. Once the essential parameters for achieving a convincing feeling of spatial presence or ego-motion are known, they will be utilized not only for improving virtual reality interfaces and virtual environments, but also for improving the design of real environments like public buildings (hospitals, administration, automatic controlled institutions, tunnels, railway stations, airports) in a way that the customer feels more comfortable, can navigate more easily, and use the offered services more intuitively. Furthermore, POEMS will be an essential step towards carrying out the vision of "Ambient Intelligence". The foundations for a revolutionized way of interaction between humans and technical systems in the future information society will be fostered by this project and will trigger a span of research, development, and business activities in a timeframe of about 2006 - 2012.

DISSEMINATION

According to its fundamental research nature, the dissemination policy of this project is totally open (all deliverables are of public nature). All the accumulated knowledge gained in this proposal will be brought into the scientific community by regularly publishing in high-impact scientific journals, and by regular presentations at prime international conferences. A freely accessible portion of the project-specific website will bring current results back into the community, including the presentation of the current state, results, publications and data. Most parts of the developed software and procedures will be made freely available as OpenSource. All deliverables of POEMS will be used for exploitation by the partners. Besides the members of the consortium and industrial users, nearly all audiovisual media technology developers and artists as well as architects can be regarded as potential users. The results are generally applicable to problems and questions regarding multimodal perception.