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Second CHIL Technology Transfer Day, July 12, 2007, Karlsruhe
Open to all interested users and developers of multi-modal perceptual technologies in user centered applications. This second and final Technology Transfer Day features many demonstrations of the CHIL results and offers a unique opportunity to meet the experts and explore how the developments can be transferred into applications.
Computers in the Human Interaction Loop (CHIL): make everybody's daily life easier!
- A cell phone ringing in the theatre.
- Trying for hours to reach someone on the phone.
- Attending a meeting and forgetting the documents.
- Endless discussions?
That will soon be history - CHIL provides useful proactive and intelligent services. To achieve this, the Who, Where, What, Why and How of human activities and communication needs to be perceived and understood. It requires robust, multimodal perceptual interfaces capable of tracking, identifying, recognizing and understanding the role, purpose and content of human communication and activities.
CHIL is developing several intelligent services supporting this vision:
Memory Jog: providing attendees of meetings with information related to the topics and participants
Relational Report: evaluating the individual's contribution to the group activity
The Connector: bringing parties together at the most appro-priate time
Socially-Supportive Workspaces: fostering cooperation and communication among participants in a meeting
In order to build the described services, we have developed key technologies:
- Person Localization, Tracking and Identification,
- Tracking Head Poses & Attention,
- Speech Recognition & Text Summarization,
- Analysis of Human Gestures and Activities
Nobel Laureate H. Simon once famously observed: "Attention is the scarcest resource in the information society". Indeed, human attention is all too frequently side tracked not only by an overabundance of data but by numerous related tasks that are artefacts of the technology supporting us. The EU-Project CHIL was designed to address this human interface problem. Rather than binding more attention in more complex Human-Machine dialogs, Computers in the Human Interaction Loop (CHIL) attempt to predict users' information needs by serving them up proactively, when needed. CHIL technology thus frees humans to interact with humans, by technology that understands human-human interaction.
To deliver on this goal, CHIL has developed innovative services and breakthrough perceptual user interface technologies describing the Who, What, Where, How of Human interaction, including Speech Recognition, Translation & Summarization, Person Tracking & Identification, Head Pose & Attention Tracking or Analysis of Human Gestures. These services and technologies offer new opportunities and solutions for your organization.
The fifteen CHIL partners from nine countries in Europe and the US cordially invite you to the second and final CHIL-Technology Transfer Day, on July 12, 2007, in Karlsruhe, Germany. See and experience CHIL services, technologies, middleware, emerging standards and benchmarks in hands-on-demonstrations, and talk to the experts. And for those who attended the first CHIL-Technology Transfer Day in Berlin: we have exciting new results (see http://chil.server.de and go to Technology Catalogue.)
Information on participating / attending:
Your participation in the CHIL-Technology Transfer Day is free of charge. As places are limited, we kindly ask you to confirm your participation by June 18, 2007 (invitation and registration form enclosed).
We look forward to welcoming you in Karlsruhe on July 12, 2007.
Date:
07/12/2007 10:30 - 07/12/2007 17:30
Event venue:
Morning location:
Fraunhofer-IITB
Fraunhoferstr. 1
76131 Karlsruhe
Afternoon location: ISL
Universität Karlsruhe
Am Fasanengarten 5,
76131 Karlsruhe
76131 Karlsruhe
Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Target group:
all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Economics / business administration, Information technology, Media and communication sciences, Social studies
Types of events:
Entry:
06/12/2007
Sender/author:
Dipl.-Ing. Sibylle Wirth
Department:
Presse und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event20685
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