• Interaction and Intelligence: This first activity aims at providing end-users with technological, innovative means for greater user-friendliness, more efficient services support and user-empowerment, while contributing to user-friendly, dependable, adaptive and non-intrusive hardware/software environments.
• Software Architecture: The second activity is dedicated to architecting/refining, testing/refactoring and maintaining/evolving dynamic, distributed, mobile and context-aware systems considered as the background support to ambient computing.
• Middleware: The third activity focuses on providing middleware for distributed mobile and communicating systems as a support to ubiquitous and pervasive computing.

IRISA-UBS is structured in three teams:

• ARCHWARE (software architectures);
• CASA (platforms for mobile computing);
• SEASIDE (SEarch, Analyse, Simulate and Interact with Data Ecosystems);