Multimodal support for social dynamics in co-located meetings

Multimodal Co-located Collaboration

1 This work was done in collaboration with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, Massachusetts ABSTRACT People naturally perform multimodal interactions in everyday real world settings, as they collaborate over large visual surfaces such as paper maps on walls and tables. While a new generation of research technologies now supports co-located collaboration, they do not yet dir...

Multimodal Interaction with Co-located Drones for Search and Rescue

We present a multimodal interaction framework that allows a human operator to interact with co-located drones during search and rescue missions. In contrast with usual human-multidrones interaction scenarios, in this case the operator is not fully dedicated to the control of the robots, but directly involved in search and rescue tasks, hence only able to provide fast, although high-value, instr...

Designing for Social Interaction- Physical, Co-located Social Computing

Encouraging Co-located Players Social Interaction

This position paper presents our ongoing work for stimulating co-located social engagement among players with a game that resorts to face recognition and another game where players are accompanied in their daily lives by virtual projected imaginary friends. We suggest interaction between imaginary friends of different players that will work as a bridge for interaction among their respective hum...

Automatic Video Editing for Multimodal Meetings

Meeting recording is being performed through microphones and video cameras in order to keep a permanent record of the events that are happening during the meetings. The technology to perform such recording is already mature and recording is being performed already for some time. However, efficient retrieval of the information from meeting data remains a hot topic of contemporary research. Sever...