MMI Resources

Specialized equipment

  • Biosemi Active 2 EEG acquisition system with 64 electrodes;
  • other physiological sensors to record heart rate, galvanic skin resistance - GSR, skin temperature, breathing rate, and electromyograms - EMG;
  • eye-gaze tracker, for the SeeColor project.

Currently and previously funded projects:

Dates Project
2015/05 - 2016/04 Hasler Foundation, EyeWalker: Ultralight lowcost clipable vision system for mobility aids, No. 11083.
2014/10 - 2016/09 Emotional and aesthetic highlights detection in movies, Nr. 205121-153239.
2012/06 - 2014/05 SeeColor II: Seing colours with an orchestra II, No. 200020-140392.
2012/5 – 2015/4 Hasler Foundation, EyeWalker: Ultralight lowcost clipable vision system for mobility aids, Nr. 11083.
2011/09 - 2013/08 Affective computing and emotion awareness in computer-mediated interaction.
2009/04 - 2011/02 Swiss National Science Foundation, “Emotion-driven personalized content-based multimedia management”, Nr. 200020-124774/1.
2008/03 - 2011/09 Petamedia, Peer-to-Peer Tagged Media (PetaMedia) is a Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme. First FP7 call ICT-2007.1.5.
2007/03 - 2009/02 Swiss National Science Foundation, “Emotion-driven personalized content-based multimedia management”, Nr. 200021-113274/1.
2005/10 - 2008/09 SeeColor - Seing colours with an orchestra, Swiss Hasler Foundation, Project MMI 1968. Principal investigator: Prof. M. Vinckenbosch, Geneva University of Applied Sciences.
2003/12 - 2007/11 SIMILAR - Seamless integrated multimodal interfaces for learning and augmenting communication in the real world: The European taskforce in future human-machine interfaces research, FP6 - IST Priority Call 1
2002-2.3.1.6 “Multimodal interfaces”, No. IST-2002-507.602. www.SIMILAR.cc
2001/12 - 2005/11 Swiss National Center of Competence in Research (IM)2 - Interactive Multimodal Information Management. IM2.WP.BMI
2002/03 - 2004/02 European Union research project: WebKit - Intuitive physical interfaces to the WWW, IST PRogram, Nr. 2001-34171.
1999/07 - 2001/12 Private grant from the Association pour le Bien des Aveugles for the Study and development of a multimedia server for the Geneva Braille and audio library. In cooperation with the Objects Systems Research Group of Profs. D. Tsichritzis and D. Konstantas.
1997/09 - 2000/03 Swiss Priority Research Program in Computer Science (5003-51321), “AB-Web: Active audio Internet browser for visually impaired and blind users”.