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Dipl.-Inform. Michael Schneider

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• FLUIDUM   2002-01-12 – 2005-03-12

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2004

Multimodal Interactions with an Instrumented Shelf
Rainer Wasinger, Michael Schneider, Jörg Baus, Antonio Krüger
Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems (AIMS) at UbiComp, 2004, pp. 36-43.
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In this paper, we describe the initial implementation of our application demonstrator called ‘ShopAssist’. This application will aid users in product queries within a shopping scenario context. We describe the wide range of input modalities that our application supports such as speech, handwriting, intra and extra gestures, and the mixed modality combinations that promote advanced user interaction with real-world and virtual objects.

REAL: Situated Dialogues in Instrumented Environments
C. Stahl, J. Baus, A. Krüger, D. Heckmann, R. Wasinger, M. Schneider
Workshop on Invisible and Transparent Interfaces at AVI 2004, Gallipoli, Italy, 2004, pp. 10-15.
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We give a survey of the research project REAL, where we investigate how a system can proactively assist its user in solving different tasks in an instrumented environment by sensing implicit interaction and utilising distributed presentation media. First we introduce the architecture of our instrumented environment, which uses a blackboard to coordinate the components of the environment, such as the sensing and positioning services and interaction devices. A ubiquitous user model provides contextual information on the users characteristics, actions and locations. The user may access and control their profile via a web interface. In the following, we present two mobile applications to employ the environmental support for situated dialogues, a shopping assistant and a pedestrian navigation system. Both applications allow for multi-modal interaction through a combination of speech, gesture and sensed actions such as motion.

SearchLight - A Lightweight Search Function for Pervasive Environments
Andreas Butz, Michael Schneider, Mira Spassova
Pervasive Computing, Second International Conference
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We present a lightweight search function for physical objects in instrumented environments. Objects are tagged with optical markers which are scanned by a steerable camera and projector unit on the ceiling. The same projector can then highlight the objects when given the corresponding marker ID. The process is very robust regarding calibration, and no 3D model of the environment is needed. We discuss the scenario of finding books in a library or office environment and several extensions currently under development.