Welcome to the joint OpenInterface website!

It creates the link between the associated websites of the OpenInterface Platform, the OpenInterface Foundation, the OpenInterface Forge, the OpenInterface STREP. The objective of OpenInterface is to provide an open-source platform for developing interfaces that communicate intelligently through several modalities. OpenInterface focuses on human-human and human-machine natural interaction and the physical or virtual interaction environment.

Platform
Click the OpenInterface Platform to be explained about the OpenInterface concept, the logical structure of the platform, the documentation and tutorials, the installation guide as well as demonstration videos.
Foundation
Click the OpenInterface Foundation site to find the information related to the activities, the benefits, and the eligibility criteria for this international non-profit foundation membership. The foundation aims to promote European research in human-machine interaction and increase its integration between the academic and industrial domains; and to facilitate access to new interface technologies. The foundation is committed to the creation and maintenance of an open source platform for supporting research and development of solutions to problems of human-machine interaction.
Forge
Click the OpenInterface Forge site and you will be welcomed to find all software developments related to the Platform. All individual developments are organized into small projects and the site provides online tools for easy development (i.e. forum, svn access and version control, easy navigation, etc.)
Strep
Click the OpenInterface Strep site to see the official site of the project. It holds all public deliverables, related reports, specific tutorials and information about the partners as well as about related projects.

The platform tools are aimed at designing, implementing and testing natural and easy-to-use multimodal interfaces that:

  • handle a rich and extensible set of modalities,
  • enable quick replication,
  • enable a focus on innovation (new modalities or forms of multimodality),
  • support dynamic selection and combination of modalities to fit the ongoing context ofuse,
  • enable iterative user-centered design.

The idea of the open-source reusable OpenInterface platform seeks for efficient cooperation of consumers from both industry and academia.

News

Conferences and special sessions

nov162008

The ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems(EICS 2009)
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
July 14-17, 2009

EICS (the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems) is a new international conference devoted to all aspects of the engineering of usable and effective interactive computing systems, ranging from traditional workstation-based interactive systems to those involving new and emerging modalities (e.g., gesture), applications (e.g., mobile and ubiquitous games) and development methods (e.g., extreme programming).

EICS focuses on tools, techniques and methods for designing and developing interactive systems. EICS brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from the HCI, Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering, CSCW, Ubiquitous / Pervasive Systems and Game Development communities.

EICS is the continuation of the successful EHCI (Engineering of Human Computer Interaction) series of conferences sponsored by IFIP Working Group 2.7/13.4. In addition, EICS 2009 will incorporate the 16th International Workshop on the Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems (DSV-IS 2009).

Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces

oct152008

http://www.springer.com/journal/12193

The Springer Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI) has launched a Call for papers for the Special issue devoted to the Summer Workshop on multimodal interfaces eNTERFACE'08 results. Deadline for papers submission is December 1, 2008.
For complete paper submission guidelines please visit: http://www.springer.com/journal/12193

IT Community News

oct142008

Open Source Virtual Reality Spreads Out

A group of researchers is using a wireless open source virtual world to teach language learning to students, including allowing them to practice. "Dubbed ‘Realtown’, the newly-developed wireless environment incorporates a virtual supermarket, schools, pharmacy and bank, as well as background sounds that may be enabled to increase the environment’s realism," says the story. Realtown is actually just one of many applications of the open source framework DIVE though, which stands for Distributed Interactive Virtual Environments. Here's what it's all about and a look at some other open source virtual reality efforts.

eNTERFACE workshops

aug302008

http://enterface08.limsi.fr/

eNTERFACE’08 is finished! Visit the website to see the materials from the last days.
All the project reports, the open-source databases and code will be available from September 15

Publications

jun252008

Call for papers: Journal Special Issue on Control and Intelligent Systems in Humanitarian Technologies

Deadline for submission: July 30, 2008 More details...