Short description:

At HMI we have a Experience/Experiment Room. This room can be used by students and HMI members to work on several Research Topics.

The room is located at ZI-2070

Keywords:

Experiments, BCI, Meeting Room, Multi-Touch Table, Virtual Reality

Research Themes:

• Advanced Graphics
• Animation
• Brain Computer Interaction
• Computer Vision
• Human Factors
• Multimodal Interactions
• Virtual Reality and Graphics

Description

• Meeting Room.
  

  We have created an UEFC-demo, which is used in AMIDA.

  A Remote Participant (RP) is participating a Meeting Remotely. Using Visual Focus of Attention (attent the RP if someone is looking at him/her), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR, who is saying what: a textual record is made of the meeting) and Keyword Spotting (attent the RP if a keyword is mentioned in the meeting) are used to make the remote conversation more natural and easier.

• Multitouch Table.

  We want to contribute to the design of the e-BioLab, and in particular improve teams collaboration and interaction with multiple public and shared displays and devices. The e-BioLab is a smart meeting room under development at the MicroArray Department/Integrative Bioinformatics Unit (MAB/IBU) from the UvA. We specifically focus on teams situation awareness, workflow visualization, and natural interaction. One of the display/interaction devices is our multitouch table.

• Brain Computer Interaction (BCI).

  In the BrainGain project experiments can be made to see and study how people (and especially their brains) react when several tasks are done. For example when playing a simple computer game. This knowledge can be used to create a Brain Computer Interface. So (illness and healthy) people can be able to control a Computer with their brains.

• RoboSoccer

  Let robosoccer explain itself: Video

• Other Equipments:
  • Ascensions Flock of Birds;
  • CyberTouch ;
  • AIBO;
  • WowVX Philips 3D Screen;
  • Imfinity Box (72");
  • Nintendo Wii;
  • Phantom Haptic Device.

HMI-members working on this showcase are:

• Anton Nijholt
• Betsy van Dijk
• Danny Plass-Oude Bos
• Dennis Reidsma
• Hendri Hondorp
• Job Zwiers
• Mannes Poel
• Paul van der Vet
• Rieks op den Akker

• Boris van Schooten
• Boris Reuderink
• Christian Mühl
• Dennis Hofs
• Wim Fikkert

Projects involved with this showcase:

• AMI [Augmented Multi-party Interaction]
• AMIDA [Augmented Multi-party Interaction with Distance Access]
• BioRange [A research programme to shape the future for bioinformatics in the Netherlands]
• BrainGain [Brain-Computer and Computer-Brain Interfaces: devices for detecting and modifying brain activity]