Universität Magdeburg /
Fakultät für Informatik /
ITI /
AMSL
SIMILAR will federate the European fundamental research in multimodal interfaces. This R&D effort may be seen as a 3-D space with the three axis: theoretical frameworks, interaction paradigms and application domains. Partners competences are spread inside this virtual cube and tend to fill the space. Many of the small cubes inside the big cube contain the ´Multimodal Grand Challenges´.
SIMILAR will realise a international and interdisciplinary fusion of those efforts to create a unique European virtual research centre on multimodal interaction.
The main tool to achieve this goal will be SIMILARnet, a virtual private network interconnecting all »European Multimodal Usability Test Rooms« and all researchers. Part of SIMILARnet will be open to the public at large giving everybody access to the state of the art in human-machine interfaces. SIMILARnet is based on the i-Portal tool from Computerland, one of the industrial partners in the project.
It is a global concept covering synchronised multiple-device inputs in HMI (Human to Machine Interfaces) like gesture recognition, speech input, handwriting recognition and various bio-signals (ECG, EMG) at the input side and various synchronised devices at the output side like sound, speech and music synthesis, 3D virtual environments, augmented reality, tactile feedback devices (haptics).
We even discussed direct brain-to-computer interfaces, cutaneous devices and so on...
