Alexander Waibel

Computers in the Human Interaction Loop - Human-Computer Interaction Series Alexander Waibel 2009 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Brief Description: Based on a major European Integrated Project, this book explores a new look at human interfaces, one in which computers become participants among humans interacting with humans. It contains over one hundred illustrations, most in color. Jacket Description/Back: Computers in the Human Interaction Loop (CHIL) explores a new look at human interfaces, where computers become participants among humans interacting with humans, as opposed to a rigid human-machine interaction dialog. To do so, computers must become perceptually aware and learn to provide services proactively and unobtrusively based on an implicit understanding of human needs. The book integrates a wide range of research topics that represent key elements of this vision including audio-visual perceptual components for such environments; the design, implementation and analysis of novel proactive perceptive services supporting humans; the development of software architectures, ontologies and tools necessary for building such environments and services, as well as approaches for the evaluation of such technologies and services. Divided into five parts: Introduction, Perceptual Technologies, Services, Software Infrastructure, and an Outlook Beyond, the book is based on research carried out by the CHIL Consortium (Computers in the Human Interaction Loop). Based on the premise that machines need to understand the human context and human activities better, the focus is on how machines need to recognize, understand, adapt to and learn from human interests, activities, goals and aspirations, rather than humans having to adapt to machines. Those working in areas such as ambient intelligence, perceptual user interfaces, human-centred computing systems, and other areas of pervasive computing will find this a very valuable reference source. Table of Contents: Part I. The CHIL Vision and Framework -- 1. Computers in the Human Interaction Loop / Alex Waibel, Hartwig Steusloff, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Kym Watson -- Part II. Perceptual Technologies -- 2. Perceptual Technologies: Analyzing the Who, What, Where of Human Interaction / Rainer Stiefelhagen -- 3. Person Tracking / Keni Bernardin, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis, Oswald Lanz, Alessio Brutti, Josep R. Casas, Gerasimos Potamianos -- 4. Multimodal Person Identification / Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis, Hazim K. Ekenel, Claude Barras, Javier Hernando -- 5. Estimation of Head Pose / Michael Voit, Nicolas Gourier, Cristian Canton-Ferrer, Oswald Lanz, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Roberto Brunelli -- 6. Automatic Speech Recognition / Gerasimos Potamianos, Lori Lamel, Matthias Wolfel, Jing Huang, Etienne Marcheret, Claude Barras, Xuan Zhu, John McDonough, Javier Hernando, Dusan Macho, Climent Nadeu -- 7. Acoustic Event Detection and Classification / Andrey Temko, Climent Nadeu, Dusan Macho, Robert Malkin, Christian Zieger, Maurizio Omologo -- 8. Language Technologies: Question Answering in Speech Transcripts / Jordi Turmo, Mihai Surdeanu, Olivier Galibert, Sophie Rosset -- 9. Extracting Interaction Cues: Focus of Attention, Body Pose, and Gestures / Oswald Lanz, Roberto Brunelli, Paul Chippendale, Michael Voit, Rainer Stiefelhagen -- 10. Emotion Recognition / Daniel Neiberg, Kjell Elenius, Susanne Burger -- 11. Activity Classification / Kai Nickel, Montse Pardas, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Cristian Canton, Jose Luis Landabaso, Josep R. Casas -- 12. Situation Modeling / Oliver Brdiczka, James L. Crowley, Jan Curin, Jan Kleindienst -- 13. Targeted Audio / Dirk Olszewski -- 14. Multimodal Interaction Control / Jonas Beskow, Rolf Carlson, Jens Edlund, Bjorn Granstrom, Mattias Heldner, Anna Hjalmarsson, Gabriel Skantze -- 15. Perceptual Component Evaluation and Data Collection / Nicolas Moreau, Djamel Mostefa, Khalid Choukri, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Susanne Burger -- Part III. Services -- 16. User-Centered Design of CHIL Services: Introduction / Fabio Pianesi and Jacques Terken -- 17. The Collaborative Workspace: A Co-located Tabletop Device to Support Meetings / Chiara Leonardi, Fabio Pianesi, Daniel Tomasini, Massimo Zancanaro -- 18. The Memory Jog Service / Nikolaos Dimakis, John Soldatos, Lazaros Polymenakos, Janienke Sturm, Joachim Neumann, Josep R. Casas -- 19. The Connector Service: Representing Availability for Mobile Communication / Maria Danninger, Erica Robles, Abhay Sukumaran, Clifford Nass -- 20. Relational Cockpit / Janienke Sturm, Jacques Terken -- 21. Automatic Relational Reporting to Support Group Dynamics / Fabio Pianesi, Massimo Zancanaro, Alessandro Cappelletti, Bruno Lepri, Elena Not -- Part IV. The CHIL Reference Architecture -- 22. Introduction / Nikolaos Dimakis, John Soldatos, Lazaros Polymenakos -- 23. The CHIL Reference Model Architecture for Multimodal Perceptual Systems / Gerhard Sutschet -- 24. Low-Level Distributed Data Transfer Layer: The ChilFlow Middleware / Ga;bor Szeder -- 25. Perceptual Component Data Models and APIs / Nikolaos Dimakis, John Soldatos, Lazaros Polymenakos, Jan Curin, Jan Kleindienst -- 26. Situation Modeling Layer / Jan Kleindienst, Jan Curin, Oliver Brdiczka, Nikolaos Dimakis -- 27. Ontological Modeling and Reasoning / Alexander Paar, Jurgen Reuter -- 28. Building Scalable Services: The CHIL Agent Framework / Axel Burkle, Nikolaos Dimakis, Ruth Karl, Wilmuth Muller, Uwe Pfirrmann, Manfred Schenk, Gerhard Sutschet -- 29. CHIL Integration Tools and Middleware / Jan Curin, Jan Kleindienst, Pascal Fleury -- Part V. Beyond CHIL -- 30. Beyond CHIL / Alex Waibel -- Index.