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Attentive Technology Today
29 January 2008, Tuesday, 7 pm
Dr Stavri Nikolov
Director and Head of Research
Attentive Displays Ltd
www.attentivedisplays.com
UK and Bulgaria
Attentive Displays are (software and hardware) display systems that monitor, sense and process viewer attention and behaviour with the purpose of dynamically modifying and tuning the information content they present to the cognitive resources of the viewer and his needs, and allowing real-time interaction with this content. To achieve this, attentive displays typically sense non-verbal cues such as presence, proximity, body orientation, gestures and eye gaze of the viewer. In particular, eye fixations have been shown to correlate well with the locus of attention. In this lecture different attentive user interfaces and devices that have been developed in recent years will be presented, including: attentive robots; attentive toys, attentive agents, attentive billboards, attentive walls, attentive videoconferencing, attentive art, etc. Attentive displays are also related to ambient displays which present information within a space through subtle changes in light, sound, and movement, and where this information is processed in the background of awareness.
Presentation (PDF, 6.7MB, in English)
Video recording of this lecture (on Digital World's web site)
more about the lecturer
 Dr Stavri Nikolov is a Founder of Attentive Displays Ltd and its Managing Director and Head of Research. Prior to founding Attentive Displays Ltd, from 1998 until 2007, Dr Nikolov was a Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in Image Processing at the University of Bristol, UK. His research interests over the years have spanned several areas including image analysis, image fusion, computer graphics, new methods for data visualisation and navigation, the use of gaze-tracking and VR in 2-D and 3-D image analysis and understanding, and the construction of attentive and interactive information displays. In the last 15 years he has participated in many international and national research projects in Austria, Portugal, Bulgaria and the UK, in image processing, analytical data processing, medical imaging, image fusion, and gaze-contingent data visualisation and analysis. He has published more than 60 refereed or invited papers, including eight invited book chapters, and also numerous technical reports in these areas. He has also given many invited lectures around the world on image processing, image fusion and information visualisation. Dr Nikolov has undertaken consultancies for a number of major European companies and has taken part in the development of various software systems. He is the creator and co-ordinator of The Online Resource for Research in Image Fusion (www.imagefusion.org) and The Online Archive of Scanpath Data (www.scanpaths.org), together with Dr Jeff Pelz from RIT, USA. Dr Nikolov is a member of the British Machine Vision Association, the Applied Vision Association, the International Society of Information Fusion, ACM SIGGRAPH and IEEE. |