Research

Current projects

PhD Research Project (please see the DPhil Project Homepage for complete information about the research)

DPhil Research Project Homepage Title: Conversational Assistant for Personal Information Management
Project This DPhil research project is developed in the Computer Science Department of The University of York, in cooperation with the Multimedia Resource Centre (CEREM) of Fernando Pessoa University, since July 1998, until October 2001.

Description

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Objectives

This project investigates a possible architecture for future Human-Computer Interfaces. It is believed that in the future the computer will act as a personal assistant which will communicate with users via human speech. Therefore, users will interact with their information appliance using speech, and will accomplish their tasks by establishing a conversation with their personal assistant. This conversation allows users to communicate their objectives to their assistant, and to receive relevant information in a more natural way. The research of ways to use speech in the interface doesn't end with speech synthesis and recognition. This research should also investigate, and try to reproduce, the human-human interaction model. As a consequence, this project also intends to investigate the structure of the spoken messages which will be conveyed by the personal assistant, as well as the kinds of information that are most suitable to be managed using spoken interaction at the interface.
Links [Project Homepage], [Nuno Ribeiro Homepage], [Ian Benest Homepage], [Computer Science Department of The University of York], [CEREM], [MMIG], [UTM - INESC Porto]
Activity Researcher / PhD student

Fields of Interest

Human-Computer Interaction, Intelligent User Interfaces

Multimedia, Speech Technologies, Multimedia Compression Standards

Intelligent Software Agents, Software based Personal Assistants

Personal Information Management, Memory, Information Storage and Retrieval

Activities

Researcher at the Hypermedia - User Interface Design Research Group of the Departament ofComputer Science of The University of York within the DPhil Project

Research Assistant at the Man and Machine Interaction Group (MMIG) of the Multimedia Resource Centre (CEREM) of Universidade Fernando Pessoa

Researcher at the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) of Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto (INESC Porto)

Other Research Projects

GKE Site

Project Project for the development of a WWW site for the German company GKE, MMIG, CEREM, from 29 July 1997 until 27 January 1998

Description and Objectives

 Development of a WWW site of a medium size (30 web pages) involving technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, image acquisition and edition using Adobe Photoshop
Links [Site GKE], [MMIG]
Activity Project Manager

 

Sebentas Electrónicas

Project Project for the development of electronic textbooks made available in the WWW, MMIG, CEREM, from October 1997 until December 1997

Description and Objectives

 Development of a prototype for deploying electronic textbooks in the WWW and make them available to UFP students. The main objective of this project was to study the concept and identify the needs related with such a service. This service should provide on-line lectures, exercises, forms for evaluation and the sylabus for all subjects being studied. This project used Dynamic HTML and JavaScript.
Links [MMIG]
Activity Project Manager

 

SCREEN

Project Project Service Creation Engineering (SCREEN), INESC Porto, since October de 1996 until 1998

Description and Objectives

 This project intended to develop a methodology for the creation of telecommunication services. The main objectives were tp develop, adapt and improve a set of tools which support the methodology, more specifically in what code generation is concerned. The objective of the INESC group was to test e validate a methodology proposed by SCREEN in a test service: a digital library based in a distributed service and accessible through the World Wide Web.
Links [UTM - INESC Porto], [INESC SCREEN Server], [JAVA], [OrbixWeb]
Activity Research in client/server distributed application development, depoyed over the World Wide Web; digital libraries development using Java applets and an implementation of CORBA (OrbixWeb).

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