redefining the future of social media

a context-aware distributed social networking framework

welcome to helios.

Imagine a new platform for building your own decentralised social media apps on Android allowing users to connect with people, stores, institutions, and even sensors according to their interests, location or availability, and giving the control and ownership of data back to the user generating content. Imagine the possibility of developing your apps with all these features and more in the safest possible way also allowing tools to monetise content and data. That is helios!

Funded by the European Commission under the H2020 Programme, the helios project is investigating and developing multiple technologies to make this possible with novel concepts for social graph creation and management grounded in trust and transparency.

HELIOS EU Project 37 mins ago

Out now the new #VideoTutorial ❗️ 🆕🎥 Check it now: #MediaStreaming #socialmedia https://t.co/BZHkaOTpuV

HELIOS EU Project 1 day ago

📢NEW PAPER PUBLICATION ‼️ Our partners from @Unipisa and @WorldlineES presented the paper “A rewarding Model for the next generation #SocialMedia”. Read it to find out more about the world of social media➡️ https://t.co/vENax9sKjI

HELIOS EU Project 2 days ago

📢NEW PAPER PUBLICATION ‼️ Our partners from @Unipisa and @tcddublin presented the paper “Evaluating Posts on the Steemit #Blockchain: Analysis on Topics based on Textual Cues”. Read it to find out more ➡️ https://t.co/8y0eTaAz3P

HELIOS EU Project 3 days ago

🆕 📹New video about CJ Reporter app, developed by our partners @swisstxt_dev with components from the HELIOS Platform. Keep in touch and watch the video! ➡️ https://t.co/WZKgwmJ1s5

objectives.

helios project will design, implement and validate a state-of-the-art decentralised peer-to-peer social media platform to support the development of social media apps ensuring the highest level of trust and control for content creating and sharing in line with all the ethical and legal requirements.

use cases.

Based on Design Fiction methodology and Human-Centered design practice, helios project has based the definition of requirements, services and technologies that should be contemplated by the platform on three inspirational Use Cases. These showcase the needs and concerns of users on the use of social networks, and crystalize specific scenarios to demonstrate the capabilities and potential of the platform for the creation of decentralised social media apps.

who should be interested?

The same way that web designers take the full advantage of WordPress for the creation of templates, plug-ins and other tools facilitating the design of great websites, app developers can use helios open-source platform for the creation of specific modules and features for social networks, as well as for building their own decentralised social media apps for Android.

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HELIOS @GOODTECHS2020

ONLINE Sep 14TH – 15TH, 2020 The event endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT, focused on sharing valuable experiences on the design, implementation, deployment, operation and evaluation of smart objects and technologies for social good. Within the event, our […]

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HELIOS @7th International Symposium Live Subtitling and Accessibility

ONLINE NOV 5TH – 6TH, 2020 Organised by the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, this event is an important meeting point for professionals, users, trainers and researchers, to exchange their views about most diverse fields of interest including live and multimedia reporting, new technological developments, live editing, accessibility services, and much more. During the event, our […]

Poster presentation @HCI 2020

ONLINEjULY 19TH, 2020 Our partners from Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain presented the poster “Speech Emotion Recognition from Social Media Voice Messages Recorded in the Wild” at the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI2020). The event was held from 19 to 24 July 2020, under the auspices of 21 distinguished international boards of 492 […]

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement N° 825585

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