Computers in the Human Interaction Loop

by Waibel, Alexander; Stiefelhagen, Rainer

• ISBN13: 9781848820531
• ISBN10: 1848820534
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-06
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book integrates a wide range of research topics related to and necessary for the development of proactive, smart, computers in the human interaction loop, including the development of audio-visual perceptual components for such environments; the design, implementation and analysis of novel proactive perceptive services supporting humans; the development of software architectures, ontologies and tools necessary for building such environments and services, as well as approaches for the evaluation of such technologies and services.The book is based on a major European Integrated Project, CHLI (Computers in the Human Interaction Loop), and throws light on the paradigm shift in the area of HCI that rather than humans interactive directly with machines, computers should observe and understand human interaction, and support humans during their work and interaction in an implicit and proactive manner.

Table of Contents

The CHIL Vision and Framework
Computers in the Human Interaction Loop	p. 3
Perceptual Technologies
Perceptual Technologies: Analyzing the Who, What, Where of Human Interaction	p. 9
Person Tracking	p. 11
Multimodal Person Identification	p. 23
Estimation of Head Pose	p. 33
Automatic Speech Recognition	p. 43
Acoustic Event Detection and Classification	p. 61
Language Technologies: Question Answering in Speech Transcripts	p. 75
Extracting Interaction Cues: Focus of Attention, Body Pose, and Gestures	p. 87
Emotion Recognition	p. 95
Activity Classification	p. 107
Situation Modeling	p. 121
Targeted Audio	p. 133
Multimodal Interaction Control	p. 143
Perceptual Component Evaluation and Data Collection	p. 159
Services
User-Centered Design of CHIL Services: Introduction	p. 179
The Collaborative Workspace: A Co-located Tabletop Device to Support Meetings	p. 187
The Memory Jog Service	p. 207
The Connector Service: Representing Availability for Mobile Communication	p. 235
Relational Cockpit	p. 257
Automatic Relational Reporting to Support Group Dynamics	p. 271
The CHIL Reference Architecture
Introduction	p. 285
The CHIL Reference Model Architecture for Multimodal Perceptual Systems	p. 291
Low-Level Distributed Data Transfer Layer: The ChilFlow Middleware	p. 297
Perceptual Component Data Models and APIs	p. 307
Situation Modeling Layer	p. 315
Ontological Modeling and Reasoning	p. 325
Building Scalable Services: The CHIL Agent Framework	p. 341
CHIL Integration Tools and Middleware	p. 353
Beyond CHIL
Beyond CHIL	p. 367
Index	p. 373
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