IDiS Research Projects

Current projects

DUMAS

DUMAS is a European 5th framework IST-project, coordinated by SICS (Björn Gambäck) and UIAH (Kristiina Jokinen). The goal of the project is to furnish electronic systems with intelligent spoken interaction capabilities, and to investigate adaptive multilingual interaction techniques to handle both spoken and text input. The project has constructed AthosMail, an e-mail application that allows the users to check their email via telephone. The prototype system works in Finnish and English, and exhibits adaptive capabilities in being able to provide responses that are tailored according to the user's preferences and familiarity with the system. UIAH is responsible especially for the prototype's user model component, and application of adaptive machine learning techniques.

MUMIN

MUMIN is a Nordic network that aims at stimulating Nordic research in the area of on Multimodal interfaces. The network encourages joint activities on multimodal research and application development, and organises PhD courses and workshops on issues related to multimodal interaction. The first MUMIN workshop was organised in Helsinki, and the first PhD course in Tampere in November 2002. The network also organised the first Nordic Symposium on Multimodal interaction in Copenhagen in September 2003.

MUMMI

MUMMI is a study project at UIAH, realised in collaboration with Marjo Mäenpää and Antti Raike. We explore the Design for all -concept in designing multimodal museum and other types of cultural interfaces, and concern especially how to provide artistic content in an effective way. We collaborate with the Finnish National Gallery (Marjatta Levanto, Riikka Haapalainen). Check also Antti's rewarded web portal Elokuvantaju (CinemaSense) which provides net-based study material on film production, and also explores how the concepts for film making can be made accessible for those using sign language.

Past projects

Interact

UIAH coordinated the USIX Interact project, a collaboration project between four Finnish universities that took place in 2000-2003. The project was supported by the Finnish Technology Agency TEKES in its USIX framework programme, by leading IT-companies as well as the Arla Institute and the Finnish Association for the Deaf. The project aimed at developing models for human-computer interaction and at building a spoken dialogue system which allows users to interact with the computer in a natural and robust way. We developed the first Finnish dialogue system that provides information on Helsinki area bus timetables.

An overview of the project is published in Elsnews 10:2:10, and in our paper at SIGDial'02 Workshop. The dialogue model is presented in our paper at EACL-03.

The project was also a selected case in the TEKES USIX framework final report, see chapter 7 ("User interfaces"): http://www.tekes.fi/julkaisut/USIX_loppuraportti.pdf

Last modified on 31.10.2003.