Detailed overview of exhibition
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 Your Worldwide ICT support network In brief: IDEAL-IST is a partner search and support network for the European ICT programme. IDEAL-IST: Dina BERZINA (University of Latvia, Latvia) |
A1 |
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Closing the Loop of Sound Evaluation and Design In brief: What is the role of sound in our daily interactions? Experience the Spinitron, a kind of physical metaphor of sound which helps us to delve into the aesthetic, functional and emotional aspects of sound. It is fun - but not only... This may eventually lead to a new idea for products with unexpected sensing and sound-producing capabilities. CLOSED: Susini PATRICK (IRCAM, France) |
B1 |
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Reflective Assistant: - early prototyping In brief: How would you feel if your car were aware of your moods while driving? The latest breakthrough from neuro and affective computing is an artificial assistant which can respond to your emotional and physical states. Nikola SERBEDZIJA (Fraunhofer, Germany) |
B2 |
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Natural voice dialog interfaces for consumer electronic devices
(Interactive TV, MP3 players, in-car navigation) In brief: Forget your remote control for interacting with your TV set or switching on your favourite music, just ask our virtual assistant! Jan CURIN (IBM, Czech Republic) |
B3 |
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Mobile Attentive Interfaces in Urban Scenarios In brief: Ever visited a city and wondered which building you are looking at? Just point your mobile phone´s camera at it, and all will be revealed. MOBVIS: Lucas PALETTA (Joanneum Research, Austria) |
B4 |
 Previews of Natural Interactive WalkingIn brief: Relax! Take a walk in the garden! Feel the sand between your toes! It is all possible without leaving our stand. Come and experience for yourself the potential of haptic interfaces complemented with sound to increase the realism of the experience. preNIW: Federico FONTANA (University of Verona, Italy) |
B5 |
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Demonstrating Companions: Persistent, personalised, multimodal
interfaces to the internet In brief: Dreading the thought of organising the family photos? This virtual assistant can help you, take your spoken commands, and retrieve just what you need. Other mobile prototypes on show will help you to stay fit and lead a healthy lifestyle! COMPANIONS: Oliver MIVAL (Napier University, United Kingdom) |
B6 |
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Human-Computer Systems for the Study of Cognition and Translation In brief: Which cognitive processes take place when a translator is translating a text? Experience a set of technologies including EEG recording and eye-tracking which are combined to explore the fascinating process of translation. EYE-to-IT: Maxim STAMENOV (New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria) |
B7 |
 Talking with the World Wide WebIn brief: Speak to the world (wide web) using this prototypical application which shows how the power of voice can help millions of illiterate or physically impaired computer users to participate in the information society. VOICE2WEB: Jan RUDINSKY (R&D Center for Mobile Applications, Czech Republic) |
B8 |
 Talking with an Avatar on a Mobile ClientIn brief: Today mobile networking technologies belong to those most ubiquitously spread among mankind and with the technological advances of mobile clients they are becoming a prime target for innovative 3D and voice applications. And, as mobile clients are becoming more powerful, real-time rendering of an interactive avatar is within their reach. The exhibit will show a mobile version of a facial animation toolkit. It can be used for developing cross-platform applications with 3D graphic, facial animation and voice interface. The exhibit will also show prototypes of mobile applications with a talking avatar and demonstrate future possibilities of talking mobile applications in business, research and society. The exhibit will also highlight how one can use platform independent architecture for developing programs with voice interface and 3D graphics that works on smartphones with different operating system or on desktop PCs. 3D MOBILE INTERNET: Jiří DANIHELKA (Czech Technical University in Prague, RDC, Czech Republic) |
B8 |
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PASION - "More than words" In brief: Is there a sense to enriching electronic communications based on voice, text or video with extra info from users - such as their mood? Come and see how availability of mood information changes group dynamics and leads to more pleasing and efficient interaction. PASION: John Richard WALKER (Xiwrite srl, Italy) |
B9 |
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IPCity - Interaction and Presence in Urban Environments In brief: See first hand how augmented reality will enable citizens and urban development professionals to experience collaboratively past and future views of their city. IPCITY: Wolfgang BROLL (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany) |
B10 |
 Gaze-contingent displays and gaze-based interactionIn brief: Come and try on our special helmet, which can show the potential of gaze tracking to help concentrate attention in everyday applications! GAZECOM: Erhardt BARTH (University of Lübeck, Germany) |
B11 |
 Symbiotic Evolutionary Robot OrganismsIn brief: Could Darwinian evolution apply to robots? Come and discover the building blocks towards of a new vision of evolutionary robotic organisms. SYMBRION: Serge KERNBACH (University of Stuttgart, Germany) |
C1 |
 A day in the life of XPERO robotIn brief: Robots can learn by exploring the world around them, just like humans do. In this exhibit, XPERO will help us understand how he(?) she(?) sees life and what we can expect in the future. XPERO: Jure ZABKAR (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) |
C2 |
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The Cognitive Robot Companion In brief: Ever wondered how human a robot can be? The robot on display is capable of interactive with humans and mimicking their behaviour. COGNIRON: Rachid ALAMI (CNRS-LAAS, France) |
C3 |
 Bioinspired artefacts for neuroscientific studies on
locomotion and new technologyIn brief: 360 million years ago, a new species evolved to move sinuously through water. This ability was copied and further improved by most current vertebrates. The lamprey on display is an inoffensive bio-inspired robot made of new composite materials. Among other things, it is providing neuroscientists with a new test-bed for their latest hypotheses about animal locomotion. LAMPETRA: Edoardo SINIBALDI (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy) |
C4 |
 Smart Home Control with Brain-Computer InterfaceIn brief: You have heard about the power of the mind. Come and experience it here, put on the cap, and experience the feeling of total thought control. Christoph GUGER (g.tec Guger Technologies OEG, Austria) |
D1 |
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Position reconstruction with place cells In brief: Place cells are located in the hippocampus of the brain, and play an important role in navigation. In this exhibits, the visitor will be able to see how signals from place cells of a rat can be accessed and interpreted against a video track of the rat´s movements. Such neuro-scientific advances open the way not only to learning from real animals, but to programming future robots with animal-like performance. Christoph GUGER (g.tec Guger Technologies OEG, Austria) |
D1 |
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Rehabilitation Gaming and Activity Monitoring System In brief: The goal of the ReNaChip project is to develop a biohybrid model for the demonstration of functional recovery of lost motor responses in an aged rat brain. The objective of the exhibit is to present a zero order demonstrator of the integrated technologies required to achieve this. In addition it will show the progress made in each of the complementary technology areas. Christoph GUGER (g.tec Guger Technologies OEG, Austria) |
D1 |
 Rehabilitation of a discrete sensory motor learning function by a prosthetic chipIn brief: An old technological promise to assist in rehabilitation through brain implants just got a new boost - Come and take a look at a new chip and demonstrator comprising integrated technologies and a robotic system which can help you to see what´s in store in the future. RENACHIP: Angela SILMON (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) |
D2 |
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Starlab - A FET SME In brief: Starlab will demonstrate ENOBIO, a new wireless wearable EEG recording system which promises to take EEG recording out of the lab for the first time. The system has been tested successfully to monitor situations such as sleepiness, and is being developed as an aid for brain computer interfacing, and seizure onset monitoring (for epilepsy sufferers). Visitors will be able to watch a live demo, or try it out for themselves! Starlab is a European SME which has, despite its size, managed to position itself at the forefront of ICT European research. Stephen DUNNE (Starlab, Spain) |
D3 |
 Turing Game Approach to Measure and Advance Machine
IntelligenceIn brief: In the famous Turing Test of the last century, Alan Turing proposed a game to test the intelligence of a machine - confront it with a human being, and ask the person whether he or she feels she is talking to a human or a machine. This time round, Turing´s test is taken one stage further - not only does the machine talk back, but it analyses your feelings too! T-GAME: András LŐRINCZ (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary) |
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 Metamaterials in EuropeIn brief: Maybe it has been a while since you studied the basic laws of electromagnetism interacting with matter? Stop by here for a refresher science class, or could it be a magic show? METAEUROPE: Maria KAFESAKI (Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece) |
F1 |
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QUBIT Applications In brief: "Qubit" is not (yet) your everyday buzzword. But quantum-enhanced technologies have the potential to transform computing and computation. Come and find out how! QAP: Kamna PRUVOST (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) |
F2 |
 Disposable Dot Field Effect Transistor for High Speed Si Integrated CircuitsIn brief: The limits of current Silicon-based technology are well documented. Less well so is how such limits can be extended by straining the Silicon lattice by introducing Geranium dots here and there. d-DotFET: Juergen MOERS (Research Center Jülich, Germany) |
F3 |
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Million Frame Per Second, Time-Correlated Single Photon
Camera In brief: What would you do if you had a million frames-per-second time correlation camera? You could get previously unheard of insights into the ultra-fast processes at play in molecular processes in physics, or discover the secrets of deep sub-micron CMOS technolog for integrating single photon detectors! MEGAFRAME: Claudio BRUSCHINI (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) |
F4 |
 Ubiquitous computing modules for complex systems modellingIn brief: Ubichips and ubidules are bio-inspired chips and systems specially designed to cope with complex syste simulations and implementations. They can scale up like seti-like computers, and go beyond current computer architectures. Why not stop by and meet marXbot, a smart ubidule-controlled robot which will let you see for yourself the pontential of this technology. UBIDULES@HOME: Andres PEREZ-URIBE (HEIG-VD, Switzerland) |
G1 |
 Accelerators of Advanced Algorithms for Image ProcessingIn brief: Three demonstrations will showcase the work of the Institution of Information Theory and Automation. The first will present an image sharpening algorithm to remove blur and noise, and increase the resolution of digital images. The second will demonstrate the application of computer vision methods to evaluate experiments in a microbiology lab on yeast colonies. The third demonstration shows how it is possible to implement an efficient programmable architecture that can implement a number of digital signal processing algorithms more efficiently using the same hardware. AAA_IP: Jiri KADLEC (Institute of Information Theory and Automation (UTIA), Czech Republic) |
G2 |
 Rigorous Engineering of Service-Oriented SoftwareIn brief: Fancy programming your own robot? This service-oriented platform takes our the engineering out of engineering your perfect robot. SENSORIA: Martin WIRSING (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) |
G3 |
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Globally-Available Internet-Connected Ambient Spaces In brief: Thanks to wireless technologies and the Internet, it is now possible to build ambient ecologies of artefacts and services which make it possible to build previously unheard of applications. This exhibit will demonstrate integration in real-time of distributed sensors over the 3D Google Earth representation framework, to monitor environmental conditions in several geographical areas. CTI: Ioannis CHATZIGIANNAKIS (Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece) |
G4 |
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3DTV and Digital Holography - Dream or Future
Reality In brief: Why not stop by to learn about eh computational challenges of digital holography. A number of demonstration kits for synthetically defined scenes will be available to showcase holograms - the ultimate technology for 3D imaging. HOLO 3DTV: Vaclav Skala (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) |
G5 |
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Multimodal human-computer interaction and industrial control systems In brief: The exhibit will consist of two parts, human-machine interaction and industrial control. The human-machine interaction part will present potential of today's technologies based on speech and sign language interaction with machines. The second contribution presents the structure and features of an industrial control system called REX, which is compatible with Matlab/Simulink. MHCIICS: Milos Zelezny (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) |
G5 |
 Efficient representation of dynamic meshesIn brief: The exhibit shows the latest progress in the processing of highly detailed 3D animations. It will be shown that using a lossy compression algorithm it is possible to store such animations in fractions of megabytes and that such animations can be easily transmitted over the internet, without any visible quality loss. The visitors will be allowed to steer the compression parameters and immediately see the results, and comprehend the bit rate and the amount of distortion caused by the compression. The users will also be able to manipulate (rotate, zoom) the data, demonstrating the crucial difference between video data and dynamic three-dimensional data. Libor Vasa (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) |
G5 |
this version - draft 27.03.09
