EU initiatives

Joint AMI/Pascal/IM2/M4/ workshop, June 21-23 2004, Martigny

Cognition and Interfaces

•Building on activities in earlier framework programmes (…,ESPRIT, Telematics, FP5)

•Human Language Technologies

–speech, multilinguality, translation

•Multimodal, multisensorial dialogue

•Signal processing and coding

•Machine vision

•Affective computing

•Robotics

•Disappearing computer

•Neuroinformatics, presence research

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•Focus in FP6:

•Multimodal Interfaces (MMI)

•Cognitive Systems (CS)

•Beyond robotics, life-like perception systems, Bio-inspired Intelligent Information Systems (in FET)

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Interface related work also in FP6 application areas

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	Neuroinformatics. (to enable the construction of hardware or software “artefacts that live and grow", i.e., that self-adapt and evolve beyond pure programming).
	life-like perception systems (to develop integrated perception-response systems that are inspired by the sophistication of solutions adopted by living systems).
	presence research (to explore the cognitive and affective roots of sensory perception; expected to give rise to the design of systems that offer “richer” experiences than any current media and communication technologies).
	beyond robotics (to develop physical mobile artefacts that could serve as companions to humans, function as bionic parts augmenting human capabilities, or act as autonomous microrobot groups).