"Man Machine Interaction"

MEMODULES as tangible shortcuts to multimedia

information

Omar ABOU KHALED, Rolf INGOLD, Denis LALANNE

Lost in the InfoSpace effect: Information overload in our daily life

Memodules = tangible shortcuts / reminders to multimedia information

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Electronic send+

State-of-the-art• Academic:

– Tangible Media • MIT, tangible visualization group, etc

– Information visualization & mining– Context-aware computing– Ambient Intelligence – Multimodal interfaces

• Industrial:– Windows XP Media Center– Logitech Harmony® Advanced Universal Remote

Own work and competence relative to the project:

• EIFR– CUI– SMAC– Multimedia Information representation, electronic

commerce, distance learning, authoring system, structured dynamic documents, HCI, web based training systems.

• Uni. Fribourg – IM2– SMAC– document analysis, multimodal alignment, Cross-modal

analysis, usability, HCI.

Structure of the project

  Planning MEMODULES 1st year 2nd year 3rd year

    1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

1 Use cases                        

2 Technology survey                        

Development

                         

3 User needs                        

  User assessment                        

4 Industrial partner finding                        

5 Reporting and publication                        

HES

Uni

Both

Future• Importance of the proposed project

– New concept– Economic importance

– Réalité économique (~ 5 ans)– Intérêt direct de l’économie locale– Plus spécialement le tourisme, le transport, et la santé– Rationaliser la distribution– Minimiser les coûts du transport

– Political importance– Action complémentaire au Fond National Suisse pour la recherche– Une synergie formidable entre la recherche fondamentale et la recherche appliquée.

• Outlook– Human at the center of technology

• Provide more freedom and autonomy to people• Transform communication and contact interaction with our environment, using

physical metaphors.• Build technology around users, using natural sensors

– Constitute a Swiss media Network for similar projects• Contact academic et industrial partners

1) Nous avons déjà 3 projets:– IM2, SMAC et visual audio

2) Synergie geographique

- Les gens partagent les memes locaux

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3) Montage de cours commun – competence MMi cours UNIFR et EIA-FR