e-Me 2.0

- towards a next generation student information systems

e-Me is a research project that aims to create a personal electronic assistant that university, businesses and governments need to contact if they want you anything. E-Me can take care of all your e-mail accounts, manage administration, manage calendars, communicate with your mobile phone, looking for interesting offers, and more.

Description

e-Me is a research project that aims to create a personal electronic assistant that university, businesses and governments need to contact if they want you anything. E-Me can take care of all your e-mail accounts, manage administration, manage calendars, communicate with your mobile phone, looking for interesting offers, and more.

For students, a particular case or issue involve contact with several authorities involved need to be taken. The e-Me concept, the meeting Ladok, student union and CSN's criteria for being a true student will automatically have the status as a student, in real time. This means that when other authorities or private parties require proof that the person in question really are a student, so this is already in evidence as part of the student profile.

The idea of the research project is to turn on the Internet. There is no user to locate information and services, but they must come to the user via a single channel, e-Me. To achieve this requires a framework for the development of small additions, also known as plug-ins, where different players can jack in their existing services and adapt them for e-Me.

The aim is to launch e-Me as a working product at the University of Borås. This release is based on knowledge and experience gathered from the e-Me pilot project carried out at the university. The development focus in this version is the system architecture, allowing students,  universities and other parties to dynamically insert customized plug-ins, either in the form of a user tool plug-in (i.e. google calendar) or data provider (i.e. class scheduling systems).

Technology

Version 2 of the e-Me is based on experiences from the pilot project and includes the framework for service development and the initial services. The system architecture behinde e-Me is an open source based architecture. The e-Me framework is built upon the J2EE standard together with a number of open source techniques that makes the development of the services easy.

Keywords

Co-design, electronic assistant, systems architecture

Period

2006 - present

Funded by

European Regional Development FUnd (ERDF) Interreg IVB North Sea programme (by the E-CLIC project)
University of Borås
Ladok division, Umeå university
Vinnova

Lead Beneficiary

University of Borås, School of Business and Informatics

Project manager

Olov Forsgren, University of Borås

Steering group

Sören Berglund, Umeå University
Olov Forsgren University of Borås
Mikael Lind University of Borås, Viktoria Institute

Partners

Espira
KronoX (NeverLost consortium)
Ladok division, Umeå university
Mecenat
University of Borås

System developers

Hannes Göbel, Manager of InnovationLab, University of Borås
Linus Andrén, InnovationLab, University of Borås
Marcus Blomberg, InnovationLab, University of Borås
Anna Mordenfelt, InnovationLab, University of Borås

Student group

Madeleine Dahlstrand, University of Borås
Henrik Fredborg, University of Borås
Iwanca Hansson, University of Borås
Stina Hellberg, University of Borås
Melanie Krantz, University of Borås
Sandra Leandersson, University of Borås
Hans Stenström, University of Borås

Websites

e-Me 2.0
Publications and Research Reports
eMe Pilot
E-CLIC

Demos

Register an e-Me
Subscribe to service Googles calender
Subscibe to service KronoX Schedule
A complete demonstration of e-Me