VIMMI @ INESC-ID

INESC-ID : The Institution

Research Institute

• Not for profit

• Privately Owned

• Affiliated with IST / Technical University of Lisbon

Dedicated to advanced R&D

• Electronics

• Telecommunications

• Information Technologies

INESC-ID : Funding

• European Community International

Projects

• QREN

• FCT National Projects

• Direct contracts with national and international companies

Development Projects

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VIRTUAL WORLDS AND SERIOUS GAMES

VIMMI - VISUALIZATION AND INTELLIGENT MULTIMODAL

INTERFACES GROUP

7 PhDs

11 PhD Stds

30+ MSc Stds

VIMMI : Research Areas

Visualization and Simulation

Multimedia Information

Retrieval and Visualization

Accessibility and Mobile Computing

Personal Information

Management

Multimodal Interfaces







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VIMMI : Visualization and Simulation

Research Topics: • Games Technology

• Serious Games

• Game Based Learning

• Technology Enhanced Learning


Games

Simulation Visualization


Serious Games

Business

Education

Government

Health

CleanDrive An Educational Simulator for Safe and Environmental Driving

• FCT funded project

•Game-like driving simulator package that will enable the education of drivers and future drivers to a safe and environmentally friendly driving behavior.

Symbiose “Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable

environment."

• Goal: training and dissemination of the

concept of industrial symbiosis

• BCSD (Satélite 6.2), INESC-ID and Microsoft

• ImagineCUP '08 “Imagine a world where

technology enables a sustainable

environment."

CAVEH Centro de Ciência Viva das Minas do Lousal

• At Mine do Lousal – closed during the

eighties

• The Mine of Science

• Fundação Frederic Velge is the owner

• Project co-funded by MCTES and FEDER for

the Centros de Ciência Viva Network



TARGET T r a n s f o r m a t i v e , A d a p t i v e , R e s p o n s i v e a n d e n G a g i n g E n v i r o n m e n T

A F P 7 I n t e g r a t e d P r o j e c t i n T e c h n o l o g y E n h a n c e d L e a r n i n g

TARGET Transformative, Adaptive, Responsive and enGaging EnvironmenT

• Key Benefits : • Rapid Competence Development

• Acquisition of complex and soft competences

• Aimed at organization integration

• Digital natives ready

• Total Budget : • 9.355 million euros



GALA Network of Excellence (NoE) on Serious Games

• The GaLA motivation stems from the

acknowledgment of the potentiality of Serious

Games (SGs) for education and training.







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Multimedia Information Retrieval and Visualization

VIMMI : Multimedia Information Retrieval and

Visualization

Research Topics: • Multimedia Information

Retrieval

• Sketch-Based Retrieval

• Interactive Visualization of Search Results

• Exploratory Search







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VIMMI : Accessibility and Mobile Computing

Research Topics: • Electromyographic input

for tetraplegic

• Mobile Notebook for Visually Impaired

• Mobile device control for Blind Individuals


Electromyographic Texting: • The body as the control interface


Assisting the Blind: • Text input for Mobile devices







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Personal Information Management

VIMMI : Personal Information Management

Research Topics: • Narrative-based Document

Retrieval

• Use of auto-biographical information to find documents

• Visualization of personal data

• RFID tags to bridge the gap between real and virtual items







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VIMMI : Multimodal Interfaces

Research Topics: • Interaction on Large-Scale

Environments.

• Multimodal interaction for multi-touch devices.

• Calligraphic Interaction.

MAXIMUS http://www.maximus-fp7.eu/

• Improve the design review process within

automotive and architectural design through

dramatically improved rendering and

interaction technologies

Tabletop LEGO

• Interactive LEGO application, developed

accordingly to an adaptation of building

block interactions and gestures for multi-

touch tabletops.

Bimanual and pen-based input

• Multitouch enabled surfaces can bring

advantages to modelling scenarios, in

particular if bimanual and pen

input can be combined.

Multitouch DJing

• Virtual DJ system with natural interaction,

paired with a low-learning curve and an

emphasis in user-oriented design.

Touch Interaction Through Acoustic

Sensing • Users can naturally express

different actions by

touching the surface with

different body parts, such

as fingers, knuckles,

fingernails, punches, and

so on…

• http://vimeo.com/30997725

http://vimeo.com/30997725







Management


VIMMI : European Projects

• SmartSketches (2001-2004)

• EuroTooling 21 (2005-2008)

• Improve (2004-2007)

• Satin (2006-2009)

•Maximus (2008-2011)

• Target (2009-2012)

•GALA (2011-2014)

VIMMI : Goals

• Establish new partnerships.

• Joint proposals (National and International).

• Development of new products.

• Joint research.

• Dissemination and explotation of results.