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Multi-modal InterfacesMulti-modal Interfaces
“The focus of IST in FP6 is on the future generation of technologies in which computers and networks will be integrated into the everyday
environment, rendering accessible a multitude of services and applications through easy-to-use human interfaces““
IST WP 2005-2006
Our Mission Our Mission
The challenge is:
• To make interfaces as simple as possible, and interaction as easy as possible
• For citizens to be able to access, receive and use information in their own language
We support the research, development and integration of:
• Advanced technologies for interfaces & interaction
• Integrated multilingual information systems and services
We focus on:
• Technology-mediated interaction and communication between people, between their devices, and between people and content
• Combining traditional human language services, like human translation and interpretation, and advanced language technologies and resources
E1 Interfaces
The Facts The Facts
Call Title: IST Call 5
Call Identifier: FP6-2004-IST-5
Strategic Objective: 2.5.7 Multi-modal Interfaces
Open: 17 May 2005
Close: 21 September 2005 at 17.00 (Brussels local time)
Budget: 54 M€
Instruments: IP’s, STReP’s
New/Traditional Instruments: 60/40
Main challengesMain challenges
• Need to provide information artefacts to be used by increasingly diverse user groups
• Expanding context of use, from scientific and business use to residential and nomadic use
• Increasing variety of media and devices used to access a community-wide pool of services and information resources
• Demonstrate added-value of multi-modality and performance advances through multi-modal interaction
• Go beyond system integration for demonstration purposes and target real world solutions
• Emphasise multi-user scenarios and non-business applications
• Stronger focus on defining the expected impact
• Need to promote cooperation between small European companies
• Promote research that could lead to spin-offs
An R&D agendaAn R&D agenda
• Key interaction technologies (speech, natural language input, haptics, vision, sensors, gesture, agents, …, including unconventional modalities) and their modelling and integration into interaction platforms
• Interface architectures, tools for cost effective integration, e.g. fusion, and toolkit interoperability
• Computational models of multi-modality, and advanced corpora for research
• Re-develop a serious effort on automatic translation
• Reinforce work on robustness and acceptability of speech recognition and research on speaker-independent software
• New learning paradigms in (spoken) language translation and portability to new languages, including greater focus on language resources as computer processable and reusable resources
• Design processes, methods and tools that support scalability and modality independence
• Empirical science base for understanding end-users, e.g. computational models, test suites and benchmarks
Multi-modal Interfaces Multi-modal Interfaces
Objective: natural and easy to use interfaces that use several modalities or
are multilingual
• Natural interaction between humans and the physical or virtual environment
• Multilingual communication systems
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Natural interaction between humans and the physical or virtual environment
• Interfaces that are autonomous, and learn and adapt to user intentions and behaviour, in dynamically changing environments
• Featuring unconstrained, robust interaction, recognise user reactions and respond to them in a natural way
• Selecting the right combinations of modalities according to the preferences and context
• Looking at both the fusion of information related to different modalities and their channelling to multiple modalities
Multi-modal Interfaces Multi-modal Interfaces
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Multi-modal Interfaces Multi-modal Interfaces
Multilingual communication systems
• For unrestricted domains, including task-oriented, real-time understanding of spontaneous spoken and gesture input
• Address novel learning paradigms that exploit contextual information, human and linguistic knowledge in a more effective way than currently done
• Portability of new languages taking advantage of methods and techniques developed for languages already covered is a further challenge to be addressed, e.g. in the context of new EU languages
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Multi-modal Interfaces Multi-modal Interfaces
This covers:
• User modelling, system design, visual recognition and tracking, language understanding and spoken language translation
• Applications should focus on proof of concepts
• Includes consumer, nomadic, creative, artistic and gaming applications
IP - system-level objectives in natural interaction and multilingual communication
STReP – can also include work on language understanding and spoken language translation
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Instruments Instruments
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Integrated Project (IP):
• Result driven with strong industry/academic consortium and users well integrated
• Focus on impact, exploitation, and replication
• Multi-faceted with R&D, demonstration, training, awareness building, standardisation, …
• 10-15 partners, 5+ countries, 4 years, 5-10 M€
Targeted Project (STReP):
• Problem oriented with the right team for the S&T challenge
• Single-problem R&D with high innovation/risk/reward
• Investigating new research options, proof of concept, or competitive approaches
• 5-8 partners, 4+ countries, 3 years, 2-4 M€
The Evaluation Criteria The Evaluation Criteria
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Relevance:
• Clarity – make it a clear yes/no decision
• Reference national and European foresight results
Quality of consortium:
• Tell them what your principle qualities are – quality of R&D, industrial participation, exploitation potential, SME involvement, uniqueness of consortium, track record, …
• Well balanced in terms of expertise, effort and exploitation
• All partners must have substantial and well defined roles to play (no window dressing, no hangers on)
• Users and end-users are present and have clearly defined roles
Resources:
• Clear task allocation and no unnecessary overlaps
• Justify costs, effort allocation, and link explicitly to results
The Evaluation Criteria The Evaluation Criteria
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Management and organisation:
• Clear work-plan and good progress indicators and tracking are key signs
• Indicate some valuable intermediate milestones
• Indicate how risks will be assessed and what are you back-up options or contingency plans
• How decisions are made, and can they be made in a timely way – conflict resolution and consensus building
• Good interlinking between objectives, activities and work-packages (Gantt)
Exploitation/dissemination:
• Protect and manage IPR and provide access to partners
• Start actions early and be precise about options
• Go beyond just “publishing results” – make an impact and above all be visible
The Evaluation Criteria The Evaluation Criteria
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European added-value:
• Show added value to existing national and European programmes
• Compliment ongoing efforts of most partners
S&T excellence:
• Position the project vis-à-vis wider strategic objectives
• Define clear challenging but attainable objectives
• Describe state-of-the-art and go beyond (no catch up)
• Commit to some key deliverables/impact measures
• Justify balance between research and development
• Stress visible industry-scale validation through experiments, prototypes, demonstrators…
• Show that you can scale to industrialisation
• Don’t just be interesting, be manufacturable
Its all about generating, demonstrating and validating new knowledge
Be ambitious, but clearly define your scientific and technological objectives – think 2010+
Be unique, innovate but be industrially relevant - include key industry players and ensure broad industrial impact
Be evaluator friendly, make it a compelling read, easy to understand, a give them a reason to remember it at the end of the week
Be credible, one proposal, no “template” proposals, do what is needed to get the result, not more, but not less – remember 54 M€ represents ~1,200 person-years of effort
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Remember…Remember…
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General FP6:General FP6:
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http://www.cordis.lu/http://www.cordis.lu/
IST:IST:
http://www.cordis.lu/isthttp://www.cordis.lu/ist
Bernard SmithBernard Smithemail: [email protected] email: [email protected]
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