Project description
Multimodal interfaces
Enaction is a form of interaction realized in the form of sensory-motor responses and acquired by the act of "doing". It is a form of cognition inherently tied to actions, capable of directly conveying a non-symbolic form of knowledge.The objective of the ENACTIVE Network of Excellence is to join excellent researchers to define and develop reliable solutions for enactive interaction and overcome the two main bottlenecks of present Interface Technologies:
1. The need of increasing of artificial systems reactivity to reach the same level of human action-perception abilities in complex tasks.
2. The link of physical sensory-motor events (enactive experiences) with the symbolic information and knowledge technologies.
The Enactive interaction paradigm proposes a closed genuine link between actions and perceptions and may help overcoming barriers such as language differences as well as produce new means of study, creation and knowledge transmission among many others.Core research activities, coordinated at European level, include RandD on enactive devices and interfaces, computer models and metaphors, human and behavioral studies, multisensory data rendering, new trends in computer architecture, interfaces technologies and standards.The ultimate Network vision is to design a new kind of computerized machines, called Sensible Machines, adapted to our sensory-motor intelligence. Beside Thinking Machines, considered as machines based on language technologies that can perform reasoning, and beside Communicating Machines, intended as machines based on wireless communications and network technologies that allow humans to communicate between themselves, the Sensible Machine plays the role of a third complementary means. It will be a generic interface between the human senses and the external universe, that completes our computerized environments with the aim of rendering them more efficient and human oriented.
Enaction is a form of interaction realized in the form of sensory-motor responses and acquired by the act of "doing". It is a form of cognition inherently tied to actions, capable of directly conveying a non-symbolic form of knowledge.The objective of the ENACTIVE Network of Excellence is to join excellent researchers to define and develop reliable solutions for enactive interaction and overcome the two main bottlenecks of present Interface Technologies:1. The need of increasing of artificial systems reactivity to reach the same level of human action-perception abilities in complex tasks.2. The link of physical sensory-motor events (enactive experiences) with the symbolic information and knowledge technologies.The Enactive interaction paradigm proposes a closed genuine link between actions and perceptions and may help overcoming barriers such as language differences as well as produce new means of study, creation and knowledge transmission among many others.Core research activities, coordinated at European level, include RandD on enactive devices and interfaces, computer models and metaphors, human and behavioral studies, multisensory data rendering, new trends in computer architecture, interfaces technologies and standards.The ultimate Network vision is to design a new kind of computerized machines, called Sensible Machines, adapted to our sensory-motor intelligence. Beside Thinking Machines, considered as machines based on language technologies that can perform reasoning, and beside Communicating Machines, intended as machines based on wireless communications and network technologies that allow humans to communicate between themselves, the Sensible Machine plays the role of a third complementary means. It will be a generic interface between the human senses and the external universe, that completes our computerized environments with the aim of rendering them more efficient and human oriented.
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Call for proposal
FP6-2002-IST-1
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Funding Scheme
NoE - Network of ExcellenceCoordinator
56025 Pontedera (PISA)
Italy
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3590 DIEPENBEEK
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H3A 2T5 MONTREAL (QC)
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1015 LAUSANNE
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1211 GENEVE 4
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80539 MUENCHEN
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51147 KOELN
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48013 BILBAO
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20009 GUIPUZCOA (S. SEBASTIAN)
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92110 CLICHY LA GARENNE
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75006 PARIS
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75794 PARIS CEDEX 16
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60206 COMPIEGNE CEDEX
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34006 MONTPELLIER CEDEX 01
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38031 GRENOBLE CEDEX 1
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38 031 GRENOBLE CEDEX
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38040 SAINT-MARTIN-D'HERES
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91405 ORSAY
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DUBLIN 2
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35122 PADOVA (PD)
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16126 GENOVA
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751 05 UPPSALA
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221 00 LUND
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BT7 1NN BELFAST
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EX4 4QJ EXETER
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MN 5545520 MINNEAPOLIS
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