The Moshbit GmbH is offering digital services. For example, Studo simplifies students’ lives and helps them to manage organizational and social aspects of their studies. On the other hand, the job marketplace Talto, facilitates the career entry for students and young talents.

Outcome:

• Increased the overall user engagment with the job marketplace (~20%) and the application rate to posted jobs (~18%).
• Conducted novel research on matchmaking algorithms in the area of student and graduate job markets.
• Introduced high quality personalization for anonymous users and additional content material (e.g., news articles).

The municipality of Schladming aims to optimize the guest throughput within the organized activities. This can be done by either providing or (temporarily) excluding information about certain activities to guests. For this, particular activities, weather options, locations and category information for defined time frames and optional boosting settings need to be dynamically taken into account.

Outcome:

• Conducted a thorough analysis and infered guest profiles from anonymized Schladming-Dachstein Sommercard data.
• Developed a novel context-aware recommendation system which aims to predict a guest's interest in a certain (holiday) activity.

Every year, the Theaterholding Graz with the Graz Opera, Schauspielhaus, Next Liberty, the Kasematten, the Orpheum or the Dom im Berg registers around 500,000 visitors. To develop and strengthen the connection between customers and cultural event offers of the city of Graz and the province of Styria, expectations and demands of the population have to be takein into consideration when generating insights from the existing data landscape.

Outcome:

• Conducted a comprehensive data analysis on customer behaviour (e.g., pricing, preferences, etc.).
• Developed innovative use-cases and design concepts on how to introduce personalization for both anonymous and known customers.

The Leibnitz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft (ZBW) has a dual platform for its book rental service. To enhance the discovery of relevant books and lower the information overload problem, the focus is shifted towards utilizing both the data about book rentals as well as social network signals generated by users.

Outcome:

• Analysed and developed a social recommendation system to foster the exploration of relevant books.
• Introduced an innovative bubble visualization style to allow for an eassier browsing and exploration.

The OpenAIRE scholarly graph enables organisations to keyword search for organisations with the strongest records of funding success from the ever-expanding range of funders. In it, the OpenAIRE Matchmaker is an innovative serice which draws information on institutions, projects and funders to enable scientific institutions interested in forming consortia to identify potential partners with the exact disciplinary strengths and competences.

Outcome:

• Designed and implemented a system to link potential scientific project partners based on institutional and personal attributes.
• Increased the added-value potential of the OpenAIRE scholarly graph for researchers and funders.

Nekom offers services for marketing, retail and omnichannel e-commerce. As a part of their platform, they also focus on social care organizations and how to improve the process of serving their clients (e.g., asylum seekers, victims of domestic violence, etc.) needs.

Outcome:

• Introduced a ticketing system to help clients of social care organizations to find the right social counsellors and organizations for their specific problem in an annymous and problem-aware way.
• A lower workload of counsellors by suggesting possible answers and related resources for the clients problem.

With the goal of providing support for the conference organizers as well as conference attendees, the i-KNOW conference, organized by the Know-Center, uses a self-developed conference assitant mobile application. This is done by providing a fast access to the conference schedule, location of the session rooms, information on speakers as well as details on talks and other related events.

Outcome:

• Integrated a personalization system to guide and remind the visitors of talks which best suit their preferences.
• Increased networking opportunities during the conference by mathching visitors with each other based on their interests and collaboration potential.

Older people are often faced with dementia. It has been shown, that people with this illness still respond to music they like. Because of that, the aim of MechaMed is to use a sensor-based system which stimulates the brain by automatically playing songs that cause a positive emotional reaction.

Outcome:

• Research on algorithms that, using data extracted from wearable devices, are able to uncover the emotional reaction while listening to a song.
• Developed an automatic playlist generation system, which grounds its decisions in biomedical data.

The Data Market Austria (DMA) offers a platform to bring datasets, data services, consulting, and infrastructure offers to a common marketplace. The goal is to be a central hub for all actors participating in the Austrian data economy, regardless of their industrial and research domain to overcome traditional domain boundaries.

Outcome:

• Extensive analysis, ideation and conception of the data market landscape.
• Development of a brokerage system to help users overcome the information overload problem and connect with clients or suppliers in the digital domain.