Advances in Human-Computer Interaction

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Human Comfort and Security

   • K. C. Varghese

   Pages 1-20

3. Evaluating Usability of the Human-Computer Interface

   • J. Kirakowski

   Pages 21-32

4. Experimental Usage Data of Car Audio System Control

   • F. L. van Nes, J. P. M. van Itegem

   Pages 33-45

5. Different Spoken Language Dialogues for Different Tasks

   • Laila Dybkjær, Niels Ole Bernsen, Hans Dybkjær

   Pages 46-61

6. Computer-based Training System for the TGV Radio-Security Procedures

   • F. Gavignet, F. Andry

   Pages 62-66

7. Mobile Radio Communication for European Railways

   • Hermann Caesperlein

   Pages 67-73

8. The Role of Information Fusion in Air Traffic Control Applications

   • Wolfgang Steinke

   Pages 74-84

9. Multisonar-Based Autonomous Indoor Mobility

   • G. Lawitzky, W. Feiten

   Pages 85-92

10. Perception Maps for the Navigation of a Mobile Robot using Ultrasound Data Fusion

    • Vítor Santos, João G. M. Gonçalves, Francisco Vaz

    Pages 93-108

11. Obstacle Detection from a Moving Vehicle

    • Massimo Tistarelli, Giulio Sandini

    Pages 109-121

12. Robot Grasping by Integrating Multisensor Data with Fuzzy Logic

    • Jianwei Zhang, Jörg Raczkowsky, Ansgar Heinrich

    Pages 122-139

13. Integrating Nonlinear Spatial and Temporal Constraints in a Distributed Vision System for Surveillance

    • C. S. Regazzoni

    Pages 140-155

14. Using Temporal Knowledge to Detect Person Movements with a Multisensor System

    • Silvia Pfleger, Hans-Peter Schwarz

    Pages 156-163

15. Experiments of Acoustic Event Detection and Localization in an Underground Station

    • M. Omologo, P. Svaizer

    Pages 164-174

16. A Modular System Architecture for Multi-Sensor Data Fusion

    • Ralph D. Tilgner

    Pages 175-180

17. A Hybrid Sensor for Colour and Range

    • N. Boersken, G. Vilmar, T. Wittig, A. Zimmermann

    Pages 181-191

18. Behavioural Learning: Neural Control of a Visual Sensor

    • C. A. Moneta

    Pages 192-196

19. Reliability of a Monitoring System using Sensor-based Interaction

    • A. Mihalache, A. Bacivarov, M. Catuneanu, S. Pfleger

    Pages 197-205

20. Multisensor Approaches to Video Compression from a Moving Source

    • J. R. Mason

    Pages 206-211

"User is king" is not a new concept, but it is certainly one that has gathered considerable momentum in the recent years. The driving force are the increasing and relentless pace of competition and the consequent attempts by many companies to keep and improve their marketshare. Since the beginning of ESPRIT Programme in 1984, the Human Computer Interface has been the subject of attention, in terms of technology development and utilisation of those technologies in various applications in the fields of Information Processing Systems, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, and Office and Business Systems. This topic area had been addressed in a number of different perspectives: user modelling, task analysis, cognitive aspects of interaction and assimilation of information, natural language speech and graphics, processing of multisensor information and its presentation, and a wide range of applications in which these technologies are used. In addition to the previous ESPRIT programmes, the specific programme for Information Technology of the European Framework Programme for 1994-1999 has recognised the ever increasing importance of "ease of use" in computer applications. The work programme on Human Comfort and Security is an attempt to address these issues. Its primary objectives are the exploitation of existing knowledge and expertise in usability engineering by integrating methods and tools into coherent toolsets, the generation of improved human computer interface components, demonstrating their application in practice, and widely disseminating the results and promoting the take-up of these technologies.

• Planning
• control
• fuzzy logic
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• hypermedia
• information system
• interfaces
• knowledge
• language
• navigation
• perception
• robot
• speech processing
• usability
• verification

• Expertise Information Systems GmbH, Munich, Germany

  Silvia Pfleger

• Dept. of Computer Science, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

  Silvia Pfleger

• Joint Research Institute, European Commission, Ispra, Italy

  Joao Gonçalves

• European Commission, DG III Industry, Brussels, Belgium

  Kadamula Varghese

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