SIMILAR

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Full name
The European Research Taskforce Creating Human-Machine Interfaces SIMILAR to humans
Acronym
SIMILAR
Website
http://www.similar.cc/
Keywords
Human-Centred Design, Modality replacement, Product design, Interaction, Usability
Budget
€ 6.050.000
Start date
January 2004
End date
December 2007



Contents

Partners

Funding Bodies

  • EC EU Sixth Framework Information Society technologies (IST) programme

Contact

  • Benoit Michel (michel@similar.cc)

Bétiment Stevin, Bureau A131, Place du Levant, 2. B-1348 Louvain-La-Neuve

Objectives

SIMILAR aims to realise an international and interdisciplinary fusion of effort to create a unique European virtual research centre on multimodal interaction. This interdisciplinary effort in research is mandatory to improve and develop the newly emergent component technologies that are required to build multimodal systems such as spoken language interaction in augmented reality spaces, integrated pen systems, gesture recognition within narrative scenarios or in portable phones, or interfaces for disabled people with one or more missing interaction channels.

Main Results

Results so far include:

  • user requirements document
  • usability evaluation methodologies
  • specifications of the modular platform (openinterface)
  • applications for the disabled
  • medical applications
  • documents on modality replacement
  • documents on data fusion and fission


End Users

The end-users were and are actively involved in design and evaluation of the VEs and technologies

Evaluation Methodologies

A whole workpage of the NoE focuses on usability issues. The focus of work is on the evaluation of emerging natural interactive and multimodal systems and components, such as those which are being developed by the SIMILAR partners. Questionnaires designed by human factors groups using in part


Publications

  • Alice Caplier, Laurent Bonnaud (1), Sotiris Malassiotis, Michael G. Strintzis "COMPARISON OF 2D AND 3D ANALYSIS FOR AUTOMATED CUED SPEECH GESTURE RECOGNITION" in Proc. of the 9th international conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2004, 20-22, Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 2004
  • Arman Savran, Levent M. Arslan, Lale Akarun "SPEECH DRIVEN MPEG-4 FACIAL ANIMATION FOR TURKISH" in Proc. of the 9th international conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2004, 20-22, Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 2004
  • D. Tzovaras, G. Nikolakis, G. Fergadis, S. Malasiotis and M. Stavrakis, ``Design and Implementation of Haptic Virtual Environments for the Training of Visually Impaired", IEEE Trans. on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp.266-278, June 2004.
  • Dario Alonso Rodriguez-Suarez, Maria Jose Sanchez Martinez "AN APPROACH TO A MULTIMODAL MAN-MACHINE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM" in Proc. of the 9th international conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2004, 20-22, Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 2004
  • G. Nikolakis, D. Tzovaras, S. Malassiotis and M. G. Strintzis "Simulation of Ancient Technology Works Using Haptic Interaction and Gesture Recognition", in Proc of the 5th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaelogy and Intelligent Cultural Heritage (VAST 2004), Belgium, December 2004, pp261-270.
  • G. Nikolakis, D. Tzovaras, S. Malassiotis and M. G. Strintzis. "Ancient Technology Works Presentation Using Haptic Interaction and Gesture Recognition", in HCI International 2005. To appear.
  • G. Nikolakis, D. Tzovaras, S. Moustakidis, M. G. Strintzis: "CyberGrasp and PHANTOM Integration: Enhanced Haptic Access for Visually Impaired Users", in Proc. of the 9th international conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2004, 20-22, Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 2004, pp. 507-513
  • G. Nikolakis, I. Tsampoulatidis, D. Tzovaras and M. G. Strintzis: "Haptic Browser: A Haptic Environment to Access HTML Pages", in Proc. of the 9th international conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2004, 20-22, Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 2004, pp. 514-520.
  • G. Nikolakis, K. Moustakas, D. Tzovaras and M.G. Strintzis, "Haptic Representation of Images for the Blind and the Visually Impaired", in HCI International 2005. To appear.
  • I. Tsampoulatidis, G. Nikolakis, D. Tzovaras and M. G. Strintzis "Ontology Based Interactive Graphic Environment for Product Presentation", in Proc. of the CGI Conference, pp.644-647, June 16-19, 2004.
  • K. Moustakas, G. Nikolakis, D. Tzovaras and M.G. Strintzis, Haptic Access to Virtual Models of Real Data for Training the Visually Impaired, Applied Technologies in Medicine and Neuroscience, Verlag Integrative Psychiatrie, ISBN 3-85184-027-5, 2005.
  • K. Moustakas, G. Nikolakis, D. Tzovaras and M.G. Strintzis, Haptic Interface for the Performance of a Remote Echography Examination, Applied Technologies in Medicine and Neuroscience, Verlag Integrative Psychiatrie, ISBN 3-85184-027-5, 2005.
  • K. Moustakas, G. Nikolakis, D. Tzovaras and M.G. Strintzis, "A Geometry Education Haptic VR Application Based on a New Virtual Hand Representation", in IEEE VR2005, Bonn.
  • K. Moustakas, G. Nikolakis, D. Tzovaras and M.G. Strintzis, "Haptic Interaction with a Virtual Environment Dynamically Created from a Monoscopic Video", in HCI International 2005. To appear.
  • K. Moustakas, G. Nikolakis, D. Tzovaras and M.G. Strintzis, "Haptic Feedback Using an Efficient Superquadric Based Collision Detection Method", in First Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Pisa.
  • K.Moustakas, G.Nikolakis, D.Tzovaras and M.G.Strintzis: Extraction of 3D Scene Structure from a Video for the Generation of 3D Visual and Haptic Representations, W3C Workshop on Multimodal Interaction, Sophia Antipolis, France, July 2004.
  • Pedro Correa, Ferran Marques, Xavier Marichal, Benoit Macq "3D HUMAN POSTURE ESTIMATION USING GEODESIC DISTANCE MAPS" in Proc. of the 9th international conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2004, 20-22, Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 2004
  • Petr Cisar, Milos Zelezny "DETECTION OF FACE POSITION AND 3D ORIENTATION IN 2D IMAGE" in Proc. of the 9th international conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2004, 20-22, Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 2004
  • Sascha Schimke, Thomas Vogel, Claus Vielhauer, Jana Dittmann "INTEGRATION AND FUSION ASPECTS OF SPEECH AND HANDWRITING MEDIA" in Proc. of the 9th international conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2004, 20-22, Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 2004
  • Slobodan T. Jovicic, Zorka Kasic, Miodrag Dordevic, Mirjana Rajkovic. "SERBIAN EMOTIONAL SPEECH DATABASE: DESIGN, PROCESSING AND EVALUATION" in Proc. of the 9th international conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2004, 20-22, Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 2004
  • Vitor Pera, Antonio Moura, Diamantino Freitas "LPFAV2: A NEW MULTI-MODAL DATABASE FOR DEVELOPING SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS FOR AN ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION" in Proc. of the 9th international conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2004, 20-22, Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 2004
  • Zdenek Krnoul, Milos Zelezny and Petr Cisar "FACE MODEL RECONSTRUCTION FOR CZECH AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS" in Proc. of the 9th international conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2004, 20-22, Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 2004

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