FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR OPEN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Digital administration services should be simple, intuitive and usable for as many people as possible. For this to succeed, they need to be designed in a more user-centered way. The “Competence Center Public IT” (ÖFIT) at Fraunhofer FOKUS, together with the Public Service Lab, has compiled a guideline for user-friendly digital administration services.

The latest publication “Recht Digital – Maschinenverständlich und automatisierbar” (“Law Digital – Automatable and readable by machines ”) by the “Competence Center Public IT” (ÖFIT) at Fraunhofer FOKUS deals with the question of how laws must be designed and how the legislative process can be adapted to facilitate (partial) automation of the application of law.

On the 20th of September at the Global Climate Strike 2019 adults in about 500 German cities will demonstrate along with the younger population for effective measures to secure a sustainable future. As an institute of digitalization, Fraunhofer FOKUS is looking to the future and contemplating the question: how can sustainability goals become the success criteria of digitization?

On 19 September, the 3.6-kilometer test track between Ernst-Reuter-Platz and Brandenburger Tor was opened after 29 months of preparation. Fraunhofer FOKUS, in cooperation with DCAITI of TU Berlin, offered test drives in automated cars and demonstrated the advantages of vehicle-to-x communication, such as warnings of hazards at construction sites and cyclists.

The International Robotics World Championship “RoboCup 2019” took place in Sydney from the 2nd to 8th of July this year. Under the direction of the FOKUS researcher Prof. Dr. Holger Schlingloff from our “System Quality Center“ (SQC) business unit, the junior team “.exe” was able to snag the third place in the “Rescue Simulation” discipline.

The European Commission appoints Fraunhofer FOKUS as part of a three-member consortium to develop the European “Support Centre for Data Sharing” (SCDS). On July 15, a beta version of the SCDS was released. Along with two other partners, Fraunhofer FOKUS has been commissioned to set up and operate the SCDS.

Digitalization does not stop at crafting. The joint project “DigiHand“ showed how work in craft can look like in the future. Fraunhofer FOKUS provided two out of eight learning stations for a traveling exhibition in which visitors learned more about “Smart Learning” and “Augmented Reality”.

At this year's ACM Multimedia Systems conference, a scientific paper on the Fraunhofer FOKUS SAND streaming solution was awarded the “Excellence in DASH Award”. FAMIUM SAND offers tools that enable content providers to track the streaming performance.