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EMFi-based user interfaces is a project of the SPI-group of the University of Tampere TAUCHI-unit. This project is a part of a wider whole of research projects, which study the user interface possibilities of EMFi (Electro-Mechanical Film) and other sensor and actuator films. The project aims for new ways of interaction and strengthening the use of less used input and output channels.
Audio- and speech-user interface elements in the context of ubiquitous computing are essential to the SPI-group. In this project we are expanding the Jaspis-architecture for the needs of concurrent multiparty dialogues that take place when concurrent multiple user situations occur. Challenges lie in the dialogue management and internal logic of the architecture. For ubiquitous computing, bringing several different ways of sensing together is another essential need of development. From the viewpoint of speech user interfaces, the challenges of context-sensitive speech outputs and communication models are most interesting areas.
The EMFi enables equipment which can be used in ways that bring new points of view to the way humans interact with computers and each other. More precise locationing and identification, activity and other social information create new possibilities for even better interaction. The use of EMFi in everyday office environment offers new possibilities for speech-based and auditory interaction techniques as well. In addition to guidance, announcing, communication and other benefit, the more polite behavior of computer systems becomes possible when the system understands social cues about the activities and states of people. Respectively, the very same information is brought to a wider group of people because of the multiple user style of the system. This increased awareness also brings problems. Information security and threats to privacy are one example. The more personal the information becomes, the greater the threat of its misuse becomes.
More information on the usages can be found on the "Applications" page.
