The AIC is a cross-disciplinary research cluster that is based on four SFI Investigator Awards to researchers in Dublin City University and University College Dublin and a SFI cohesion award. The cohesion award was granted to enable collaboration not only between the research groups but also with industry, public sector bodies and other research organisations.

The aim of the Entre Pass project is to increase the number of people undertaking entrepreneurial training by increasing the visibility, accessibility and transferability of such courses and qualifications across six member states.

The objectives of the E=mC² project are: to investigate and deliver tools and technologies relevant to the empowerment of citizens within the mobile ubiquitous computing arena; to create technologies for the effective delivery of Context Sensitive Services for the mobile citizen; to deploy Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in the delivery of lightweight mobile service provision agents which exhibit a small software footprint amenable to accommodation on PDA and wearable devices.

Within this research we wish to explore the blurring of the traditional information space boundaries. We explore the 4th dimension where the virtual is fused with the physical in a distinguishable manner. We examine the possibilities of agents mutating as they opportunistically migrate from one information space to another and the decision making process hat underpins the change of agent form. The agent form inextricably dictates or constrains its behaviour within a particular environment. Judicious selection of the appropriate forms ought to empower the entity.

The SAID project has two main focus areas: Firstly the development of a Multi-Agent powered Time Map model of speech recognition and generation. This model once implemented, will then be incorporated into a number of projects in the Social Robotics and Mobile Computing domains.

Agent Factory has been developed as part of ongoing research at University College Dublin, that is concerned with the creation of "a cohesive framework that supports a structured approach to the development and deployment of agent oriented-applications".

The primary focus of NeXuS is behavioural realism whereby the actions of situated virtual characters within Virtual and Mixed Reality environments are underpinned by some plausible and rational behavioural model.

The PRISM laboratory hosts a collective of mobile robots which constitutes a university wide service for all researchers interested in developing robot applications.
These robots have been used in a number of projects in the area of mobile, ubiquitous and social robotics. The overall goal of these bodies of work has been to enable robot agents to operate in indoor (office-type) environments for long periods, with minimal supervision, and there engage with a dynamic population of other agents, including other robots, humans and software agents.

The MiRA project investigates the combination of physical robots with virtual character through mixed reality overlay. By giving a virtual social interface to a physical robot and a physical body to a virtual character, a MiRA exhibits tangible physical presence while offering rich expressional capabilities, personalisation and ubiquitous features that are complex and expensive to realise with pure hardware-based solutions. Such an approach does not only offers a compelling new way of prototyping robotic interfaces, by bringing down cost and complexity, but also affords a whole new set of possibilities, which we have explored in detail in one of our publications and user trials.

The TRUST team (spanning three countries and several disciplines) develops creative tools and visualization systems for hospitals and persistent care and rehabilitation units using Virtual Reality, gaming technologies, haptic devices and affective feedback.

Gulliver's Genie is broadly concerned with various issues relating to the development of software for mobile users. Though originally influenced by work on HIPS, and thus focuses on tourist domain, it has emerged as a vehicle for conducting research on various aspects of software development and implementation on computationally lightweight devices.