News and events relating to the Soft Reliability project, including some academic project output, are listed below.

===== Year 2010 =====

|**November**|Awarded PhD degree (cum laude) at doctoral [[http://fluxicon.com/blog/2010/11/doctoral-defense-anne-rozinat/|defense]] "[[http://alexandria.tue.nl/extra2/690060.pdf|Process Mining: Conformance and Extension]]", Anne Rozinat ||
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|**June**|Both valorization grant applications have been awarded the phase-2 STW Valorization Grant, i.e., 200 000 EUR for each. More information on the two distinct projects about commercializing research tools for industrial applications can be found at [[http://uxsuite.com|UXsuite]] and at [[http://fluxicon.com|Fluxicon]].||
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|**May**|Awarded PhD degree at doctoral defense "[[http://alexandria.tue.nl/extra2/201010332.pdf|Soft Reliability in New Product Development]]", Aylin Koca||
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|****|[[http://www.idemployee.id.tue.nl/a.koca/panel/|Panel]] as part of the closing event of the IOP-IPCR project "[[http://www.softreliability.org/|Managing Soft Reliability]]"||
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|**March**|Awarded PhD degree (cum laude) at doctoral [[http://web.tue.nl/cursor/internet/jaargang52/cursor24/onderzoek/onderzoek.php?page=o4|defense]] "[[http://alexandria.tue.nl/extra2/201010130.pdf|Quantifying Diversity in User Experience]]", Evangelos Karapanos||
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|****|[[http://ekarapanos.com/symposium/|Mini-symposium]] on "Diversity in User Experience"||
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|****|Submitted two separate applications for the STW Valorisation Grant (phase-2), worth of 400 000 EUR in total, by [[http://uxsuite.com|UXsuite]] and [[http://fluxicon.com|Fluxicon]].||
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|**January**|Invited for [[www.waag.org/download/41420|The Internet of Things]] Symposium at [[www.waag.org|Waag Society]], Aylin Koca||
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===== Year 2009 =====

|**December**|Invited for [[http://www.theinternetofthings.eu/content/council-launches-brussel-blogs-reports-and-videoclips|The Internet of Things Council Launch]] at Brussels, Aylin Koca. ||
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|**November**|[[http://www.designforusability.org/symposium-2009|World Usability Day]] event at TU Delft, presentation by Aylin Koca. ||
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|****|Invited for STW valorization workshop at Amsterdam, Aylin Koca and Mathias Funk.
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|**October**|Microsoft Research Cambridge, presentation by Mathias Funk. ||
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|**September**|Xerox workshop  (Karl Kurz, new unit manager at Xerox), presentation by Anne Rozinat, Aylin Koca, Evangelos Karapanos and Mathias Funk ||
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|**August**|Android observation project finished. This project targeted the Android mobile platform to enable remote observation of phones and applications, and exploring user behavior on-the-go. ||
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|**June**|Both valorization grant applications have been awarded the phase 1 STW Valorization Grant, i.e., 25 000 EUR for each. The two distinct projects aim at commercializing research tools for industrial applications. More information about the projects can be found at [[http://fluxicon.com|Fluxicon Process Laboratories]] and at [[http://uxsuite.com|UXsuite]]. Furthermore, IOP is generously supporting the two valorization initiatives by awarding each of the 4 PhDs (Anne Rozinat, Aylin Koca, Evangelos Karapanos, Mathias Funk) with personal grants of up to 40 000 EUR each.||
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|**May**|Philips Healthcare Workshop at Best, presentation by Anne Rozinat, Aylin Koca, Evangelos Karapanos and Mathias Funk||
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|**April**|Submitted two separate applications for the [[http://www.stw.nl|STW]] Valorisation Grant (phase 1). More information on STW's competitive valorization grant scheme is available [[http://www.stw.nl/Programmas/ValorisationGrant/|here]] (in Dutch). [[http://www.stw.nl|STW]] is a governmental "technology foundation for funding excellent utilization-oriented technology research at Dutch universities and selected institutions since 1981."||
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|**March**|Philips AppTech Workshop at Human Centered Solutions Group, presentation by Anne Rozinat, Aylin Koca, Evangelos Karapanos and Mathias Funk||
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|**February**|Philips Medical Systems Workshop at TU/e, presentation by Anne Rozinat and Mathias Funk||
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|****|Starting collaboration with Philips InnoHub, Singapore. A case-study about observation supported usability evaluation of a communication device for elderly is  carried out.||
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|**January**|Nederlandse Vereniging voor Risicoanalyse en Bedrijfszekerheidstechniek,  [[http://www.nvrb.nl/agenda/20jan2009_soft_reliability.htm|NVRB evening]] of Soft Reliability, presentation by Anne Rozinat, Aylin Koca, Evangelos Karapanos and Mathias Funk ||
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|****|Second part of Océ workshop about adding observation capabilities to a printer prototype. After connecting the prototype to the observation system, the entire workflow of specifying observation, automatic data collection, and subsequent analysis could be demonstrated successfully at TU/e. ||
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===== Years 2005 - 2008 =====

Find out what happened since the project started in 2005: [[archive|News archive]].