Digital cities and transferability of results

In a first step, the SLIM research has surveyed the development of multimedia in different countries, i.e. the countries involved in the project: United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Switzerland, Norway and Belgium. The French situation has also been analysed by the Belgian team. In a second step, the research focuses on more specific areas of development of the multimedia technology: Education, Cultural Content and Industries, and the Public Sector. In these areas, the stress has been made on the user, mainly on its involvement in the development of projects and on its representation, i.e. the ideas that people, mainly the designers of multimedia applications have in mind regarding the user when they construct their technological project.