Current Projects at HUMLE
In this mini-course we investigated different approaches to interactive storytelling, the role of characters and drama, as well as technology directed towards interactive story telling. It featured some of the European experts on interactive drama as lecturers, as well as experts in the area of construction of live role playing.
Contact: Annika Waern
The project treats general aspects of automatic adaptation in open systems with an emphasis on two areas: adapting towards preferences of users and adapting towards properties of devices.
Contact: Markus Bylund
Våra arbetsinsatser i internationella samarbetesprojekt. Finansierat av SICS.
Contact: Jussi Karlgren
Funded by the EU IST program, addresses questions in multilingual information access. SICS contribution will be in textual analysis: stylistics and gisting. Other partners in the project are University of Sheffield, Tampere University, BBC Monitoring, Alma Media, Muscat, and University of Massachusetts.
Contact: Kristofer Franzén
Studies collaborative information seeking in the patent domain.
Contact: Preben Hansen
Funded by EU (2000-2002). The aim of the DELOS NoE for Digital Libraries (DLs) is to provide an open context in which an international research agenda for future research activities in the digital libraries domain. It will make testbeds available, facilitate their interoperability, and provide mechanisms for the evaluation of models, techniques, and approaches, and the exchange of open-source software components.
Contact: Preben Hansen
Demokrati Online. Förstudieprojekt finansierat av VINNOVA.
Contact: Jussi Karlgren
The DUMAS (Dynamic Universal Mobility for Adaptive Speech Interfaces) project develops multi-lingual speech-based applications, focusing on intelligent and ambient interaction management with a special emphasis on naturalness that takes into account the user's personalised needs.
Contact: Björn Gambäck
ELMO studies elderly people and their use of devices with small interfaces, for example mobile phones. We study how elderly people can handle these devices and how they can navigate through an information space that is presented on a limited surface.
Contact: Marie Sjölinder
ENCORE extends the notion of collaborative filtering by (1) investigating combinations of content - and social filtering, (2) finding new ways of presenting and explaining recommendations, and (3) looks into how theses systems can be used in decentralized systems
Contact: Martin Svensson
The purpose of the project Enabling and Promoting Trust in Micro Service Environments (EPTMSE) is to study, design, and implement methods and technology for ensuring a trustworthy experience between users and services in micro service environments. The EPTMSE project is a collaborative project between SICS, Appear Networks, and TeliaSonera.
Contact: Fredrik Espinoza
Non-intrusive services to support Focussed, Efficient and Enjoyable Local activities (IST-2000-26135).
Contact: Fredrik Espinoza
The project FetchProt aims at providing both academia and industry in the biotechnology and life science areas with a publicly available infrastructure for management and retrieval of knowledge about protein functions.
Contact: Kristofer Franzén
Tries to create a socially and emotionally rich gaming environment in which the user has to make the right decisions in order to maintain friendships and relations. Through traditional and untraditional AI techniques, Kaktus seeks to simulate emotionally and socially intelligent reactions in artificial characters.
Contact: Jarmo Laaksolahti
Vetenskaplig rapportering och seminarieverksameht. Finansierat av SICS.
Contact: Jussi Karlgren
Funded by the EU, explores the use of animated, pedagogical interface agents.
Contact: Jarmo Laaksolahti
MobiTip is a social mobile service for exchanging recommendations, comments and tips within a loosely defined domain such as a shopping mall or a conference site. Bluetooth connectivity is used to form a social space of nearby devices that is used as key input for the collaborative filtering of tips. The social space is visualized to show other users nearby, emphasising that tips are initiated by peers.
Contact: Martin Svensson/Åsa Rudström
We aim to develop innovative mobile services and the corresponding supporting technology and platforms. Our research method involves moving beyond the creation of individual services and form general design approaches, methods, and middleware.
Contact: Martin Svensson
At the intersection of bioinformatics and computational linguistics, the project "Proteinhalt i text" (protein concentration in text) develops methods for automatic identification of names of proteins.
Contact: Kristofer Franzén
Funded by the EU, deploys technology in a digital library of technical reports.
Contact: Jussi Karlgren
Funded by KFB , tries to establish how much of the results concerning elderly and navigation in the real world can be transferred to the virtual world.
Contact: Marie Sjölinder
Started in August 2001. We plan to implement a prototype based on multimodal interfaces replacing or complementing the components or widgets of the graphical user interface, using combinations of speech recognition, online handwriting recognition, and gesture recognition. We have selected a music tool scenario, among architecture, management, and logistics tool user scenarios.
Contact: Rickard Lindell
Secure Legal Information Management. Samarbetsprojekt med Institutet för rättsinformatik vid Stockholms Universitet, finansierat av Riksbankens jubileumsfond.
Contact: Jussi Karlgren
Funded by SITI, has two purposes: to build a working prototype implementation of a Personal Service Environment (PSE) and to perform research using the platform. The purpose of the prototype is to tackle the shortcomings of the World Wide Web as a platform for providing services. The research to be done using the platform is in the field of user-service interaction and will focus on user involvement in cooperation between services, user personalization, user integrity, and increasing user control.
Contact: Fredrik Espinoza
The TAP project makes agent technology and other forms of autonomous software accessible to the public through live applications. The first live case is trading agents, which represents assistant software. The second live case is controlling the spread of communicable infectious diseases, which represents agent-based social simulation. In a similar manner, future live cases will capture portions of established technologies in this area of research, always with an eye on practical employment.
Contact: Magnus Boman
Funded by NUTEK, aims to explore future scenarios of news media.
Contact: Annika Waern
Awake aimes at in a methodical way categorize and identify which mobile services that can be enhanced and that will benefit from being enhanced with social awareness. Research Partners: Telia Research, Farsta.
Contact: Per Persson
Extends SMS communication with a visual element. In addition to text, the sender can create short gags and performances of ones' mobile phone avatar, time text and gestures and thus create small animations to be sent to other people's mobile phones. Skins and scripts of behaviors can be exchanged between users. Research Partners: Nokia Research Center.
Contact: Per Persson
Developes information technology for the family, including communication, sharing of common information, and other family based services. Research Partners: Warp-lab, Ericsson Research, Kista.
Contact: Per Persson
GeoNotes is based on positioning technology and allows people to attach virtual notes to real world locations. When other people pass the location, they will be notified about the note and will be able to read it. GeoNotes allows mass-annotations with no or little restrictions on accessing others' GeoNotes. It is also social in the way it incorporates social filtering techniques to sort out unwanted GeoNotes.
Contact: Fredrik Espinoza
Aims to investigate various aspects of agents and personal assistants, ranging from the preferred choice of interaction with the agent (multi-modal issues), how the adaptive behaviour can and should be realised, to multi-agent architectures and platforms. The project is performed in cooperation with the ISL group at SICS.
Contact: Kristina Höök
Llaves, funded by the EU in the FET Open program, studies text structure with an eye on application to information retrieval and multi-document summarization.
Contact: Jussi Karlgren
Develops a navigational instrument that can aid designers of systems that include navigational aspects, and implement solutions that support social navigation. The KALAS system has been developed within PERSONA.
Contact: Martin Svensson
Recommendations and Adaptation of content in New Domains, investigates how a configuration system can be enhanced with recommendations and adaptive user interface components, to support the user when configuring a complex product.
Contact: Rickard Cöster
Funded by the EU, will explore several aspects of affective interfaces.
Contact: Kristina Höök
HUMLE collaborates with Stena Line in a project aimed at adding a social flavor to Stena Line's new booking site (under development).
Contact: Åsa Rudström
Funded by SICS, implements base text analysis technology for server-based mobile services.
Contact: Kristofer Franzén