Human-Computer-Interaction

The rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT) led to an explosion of applications of interactive graphics systems in many areas of business, production, science and research, medical diagnosis and treatment planning, just to mention a few. Hereby, the corresponding functionality is mainly accessible through the user interface. Most user interfaces, however, are lagging behind the requirements of mobile, virtual, collaborative, and distributed applications, for instance, in ambient intelligence environments. The huge variety of different mobile devices that nowadays have made information and mobile services virtually available everywhere to almost everybody, thereby putting people at centre stage, is boosting the importance of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) even more.

Human-computer interaction is concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them. Because of HCI being part of any graphical interactive system, the different members of the INI-GraphicsNet together address all of its relevant aspects. Their special expertise, however, lies in the challenging area of natural multimodal interaction. User action and intention is interpreted based on multi-sensor inputs, gesture recognition and computer vision approaches. For adaptive interfaces and responsive systems we work on different combinations of computer generated speech, haptics and visualization.