On Going Projects

Drex

In DREX project we collaborate with Centre for Practice as Research in Theatre and Theatre and Drama Research in the Department of Literature and the Arts. The project is funded by Tekes Spaces and Places programme. In the project we use theatre work and interactive spatial technology to study new types of evental spaces. We build demonstrations and applications and work in close collaboration with industrial partners (including STX Finland, Heureka, Turku 2011 –Foundation, SKS Mechatronics). Internation co-operation partners include Trinity College Dublinin, University of Queensland and Teesside University.

DIEM

Devices and Interoperability Ecosystem - DIEM - project is part of the Finnish ICT SHOK program coordinated by TIVIT.

DIEM project targets to define and open a completely new domain for technology and service innovation in a global scale. The project targets to enable news services and applications that are based smart environments that comprise of digital devices containing relevant information for different purposes. The key is interoperability between devices from different domains.

SPI is participating in WP 4: User interaction. The main goal of this horizontal work package is to understand the aims and the needs of the users as well as the benefits and limitations of technology which are essential in having successful technological adoption. Our vision is that easy to use, seamless and adaptive interfaces allow fluent use of different devices and services. This will result in device interoperability to be widely accepted by the users enabling them to make use of full potential of the new technology.

DIYSE

Do-it-Yourself Smart Experiences is an Eureka ITEA2 consortium project. DiYSE aims at enabling ordinary people to easily create, setup and control applications in their smart living environments as well as in the public Internet-of-Things space, allowing them to leverage aware services and smart objects for obtaining highly personalised, social, interactive, flowing experiences at home and in the city.
2006 - 2010 Companions

Companions

COMPANIONS is an EU Framework 6 IP project. The aim of the project is to make computer interfaces more human-like with multimodal interfaces, from speech understanding to emotion recognition. We will explore agent-based interfaces, ones in which the user communicates with a virtual character using multimodal dialogue.

Prima

PRIMA (Privacy in the Making) is funded by Nordunet3. The project seeks to study directions for symbiotic technical and regulatory mechanisms for supporting ICT related privacy. The work at TAUCHI is focusing on concrete technological and regulatory privacy mechanisms in the context of future ICT.

MOKOMO

Multimodal context-sensitive mobile user interface (MOKOMO, Moniaistinen kontekstitietoinen mobiilikäyttöliittymä) project aims at the preparation of reseach results for take up. It is funded by Tekes (2009-2010).

Past Projects

Täplä

Täplä (Ambient intelligence based on sound, speech and multisensor interaction) was funded by TEKES. The project was co-operation between University of Tampere and Technical university if Tampre. The goal of the project was to develop methods for new type of ubiquitous applications based on sound, speech, machine vision and multimodality. Research covered technology, applications and usability. During the project we develped and evaluated a multimodal media center application.

COST278 and MUMIN

We participated in COST278 (Spoken Language Interaction In Telecommunication) and MUMIN (Nordic Network for MUltiModal INterfaces) research networks.

Dumas

Dumas was an international project having both academic and industrial participants from Finland, Sweden, Germany and United Kingdom. The project dealt with interaction methods and techniques in speech-based applications. Multilinguality was one major issue in this international project. Dumas was funded by European Union IST program.
Ecological Approach to Smart Environments (EASE)

In this Tekes-funded project, a method to develop and evaluate the ecology of smart environments from the perspectives of the human, the technology and the environment was built.

Mobile User Interfaces

Mobile User Interfaces was a project where we used Handheld PC's and wireless networks to study how speech based mobile applications should be build and used. This project was supported by the HP Voice Web Initiative in the HP philanthropy program.

New Methods and Applications of Speech Technology (PUMS)

PUMS is a part of Tekes-funded Fenix-program. In this project, we develop mobile speech-based and multimodal public transport information services. See a description of different applications for further information. More...

New User Interfaces Based on EMFi-technology

The goal of the project was to study user interfaces based on EMFi-technology. Especially we developed speech-based and ubiquitous applications based on EMFi.

Speech User Interfaces

In a TEKES funded Speech User Interfaces project we built the first version of Mailman, a speech-based e-mail client for telephone users.

User Interfaces for Ubiquitous Computing

Ubiquitous Computing project studies interfaces that reside in our everyday environment. In this project, we have been building the Doorman system. Ubiquitous computing project is funded by Academy of Finland. More...

Usix-Interact

Usix-Interact is a national project where we work together with research groups from several Finnish universities. Our aim is to develop better models for natural language based human computer interaction. Interact project is funded by Finnish National Technology Agency (TEKES) and several industrial partners. It is one of the eight language technology projects in a TEKES funded USIX (User-Oriented Information Technology) program. More...

Ecological Approach to Smart Environments (EASE/ÄES)

In this Tekes-funded project, a model to build and evaluate the ecology of smart environments from the perspectives of the human, the technology and the environment was contructed.

New User Interfaces Based on EMFi-technology

The project studied user interfaces based on EMFi-technology. In particular we built prototypes featuring speech and ubiquitous computing elements featuring EMFi.

Speech User Interfaces

In a TEKES funded Speech User Interfaces project we built the first version of Mailman, a speech-based e-mail client for telephone users.