CLARITY is a research centre that focuses on the intersection between two important research areas - Adaptive Sensing and Information Discovery - to develop innovative new technologies of critical importance to Ireland's future industry base and contribute to improving the quality of life of people in areas such as personal health, digital media and management of our environment. The overarching theme of CLARITY's research programme -bringing information to life- refers to the harvesting and harnessing of large volumes of sensed information, from both the physical world in which we live, and the digital world of modern communications & computing. The technology developed by CLARITY will help to empower the citizen by taming the information overload problem currently facing individuals, helping to ensure that everyone has access to the right information at the right time.

• Adaptive sensing and information discovery
• Wireless sensor networks
• Multimodal Context Analysis
• Autonomic Sensor Communities - gathering, harmonising, filtering and disseminating data from within a heterogeneous, dynamic, failure prone and resource-bounded hierarchy of sensors;
• Contextual Content Analysis -analyse and understand only relevant content as carried by the sensed data
• Content Organisation and Management - management, indexing & retrieval of sensed information
• Personalization in Context - serendipitous content discovery, whereby the needs, preferences, activities and context of individuals can help to drive the high-precision recommendation

Demonstrators in:

•Personalised health

•Interactive media

•The adaptive environment

Keywords:

CSET, Artificial Intelligence, Personalisation, User modelling, Preference Elicitation, Conversational Recommender Systems, Mobile web, social networks