EU Cascade Funding Impact: CORTEX2 Open Call Success Story
How European Commission cascade funding through CORTEX2 Open Call Track 2 enabled SME access to advanced research technologies, consortium mentoring, and validation resources that catalysed commercial platform development with sustained social impact.
Technical Literacy and Accessibility in XR Training Platforms
Validation evidence challenges assumptions about technical literacy as deployment barrier whilst identifying interface complexity, induction design, and speech recognition as critical success factors for inclusive XR training access across diverse user populations.
From Proof-of-Concept to Product: The SimExBuilder Evolution
How rigorous validation evidence from XRisis enabled transformation from research demonstration to commercial SimExBuilder platform with Service Level Agreement model, low-code authoring tools, and market positioning for global NGO sector.
Measuring Training Effectiveness in Immersive Environments
How the XRisis project combined System Usability Scale methodology, multi-dimensional added value assessment, and qualitative debrief analysis to rigorously evaluate immersive training outcomes beyond technical feasibility demonstrations.
Integrating Real-Time Cooperation Technologies: CORTEX2 Platform in Practice
Technical lessons from integrating Rainbow CPaaS, DFKI VCAA, CEA CoVA, and Linagora summarisation technologies into a production humanitarian training platform, addressing architecture challenges and discovering unexpected integration opportunities.
Selective Application of XR Technologies: When Immersion Adds Value
Validation evidence from the XRisis project reveals that extended reality delivers maximum training value for situated practice and soft skills development whilst providing limited benefits for theoretical knowledge transfer, fundamentally informing deployment strategy.
User-Centric Design in XR Development: Lessons from Humanitarian Training
How iterative prototyping with non-technical stakeholders and dedicated liaison roles bridged the gap between technical capability and user needs in the XRisis humanitarian emergency training platform.
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