2D/3D user interfaces and interaction techniques, Augmented and Virtual Reality, collaboration experiencing, image transmission.
Role: Leader of geoposition, media streaming and collaborative rich media developments.
Contact: Pedro Santos
www : www.igd.fraunhofer.de
The Technical University of Darmstadt (TUD) has been founded in 1877.
Its focus on technology - from the perspective of engineering, the natural sciences, humanities and social sciences - ranges from basic research questions to applications for daily life.
Role: Development of new calibration techniques for tile stereoscopic large screen displays.
TUD developed new methods for calibrating a TDS: an automatic geometric calibration that virtually aligns the projectors, and a semi-automatic color calibration that makes the colors of the final display spatially uniform.
Contact: Alain Pagani
email : alain.pagani@igd.fraunhofer.de
Development and production of mobile optoelectronic devices Head Mounted Displays (HMD)
Contact: Oliver Machui
email: machui@trivisio.com
www : TRIVISIO
Developer of P-OLED microdisplays
Role: MED supplied P-OLED microdisplays for some of the prototype HMDs. MED has developed its P-OLED technology to better meet the requirements of stereoscopic see-through HMDs
Contact:Professor Ian Underwood FRSE, Chief Technology Officer
email:
i.underwood@microemissive.com
www : www.microemissive.com
Augmented reality, Human-Computer interaction, Multimedia.
Role: Optical markerless tracking developments for robust registration of the real and virtual worlds. The module consists in processing in real-time the images acquired by the digital camera mounted on the Head Mounted Display.
Contact: Céline Paloc
Email:
cpaloc@vicomtech.org
www : VICOMTech
STT was founded in April 1998 as a spin-off of the CEIT research centre. From the beginning, the operational aim has been to develop advanced hardware and software solutions. Among its customers, STT includes the final consumer and industry.
Role:Provider of marker based tracking technology and efforts related to exploitation
Contact: José Manuel Jiménez Bascones
email: JMJimenez@stt.es
www : STT
Augmented Engineering, IT Support for the Virtual PDP. Mixed, Augmented &
Virtual Reality. Realtime Solutions for Simulation and Visual Analytics.
nteractive Graphics Systems, HCI. Realtime Visualization of Georeferenced
Data. Virtual Reconstruction, Assessment and Restoration of Archaeological
and Historical Heritage.
Role:Leader of System desing, main developer of multimodal interactions
for the IView system and main responsible for user test in the automotive
scenario.
Contact: Dr. Giuseppe Conti PhD CEng MEng,
Senior Scientist, Fondazione Graphitech
e-mail: giuseppe.conti@graphitech.it
www: GraphiTech & INI-GraphicsNet
Founded in 1988 as a Fiat Group initiative, ELASIS is a joint stock consortium involving several entities with the same objectives.
ELASIS is one of the leading private research agencies in Europe.
ELASIS has over 800 directly employed researchers and technicians, with an average age of just over 35, over 95% of which are graduates.
Role:Acted as end users in the automotive scenario.
Contact: Vincenzo Cantelli
www : Elasis
We are the architectural scenario users. Our first roll within the consortium was to set up a basic brief by analysing the architectural process and identifying gaps in the existing software and hardware markets that could be filled with Improve.
Our second mission has been to test the prototypes at their different stages and comment on them in order to help the development of the product.
Contact: Ana Teresa Cristóbal
email: at.cristobal@pagepark.co.uk
www : Page/Park
The Lighthouse, Scotland's first, dedicated, national centre for architecture and design, was opened by HM Queen Elizabeth in July 1999. The Lighthouse is the renamed £13 million conversion of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's 1895 Glasgow Herald newspaper office. The Lighthouse’s vision is to develop the links between art, design and architecture, seeing these as interconnected social, educational, economic and cultural issues of concern to everyone. Its mission is to educate, to engage, to research and to innovate.
Role: Working closely with both end user groups on requirements analysis and leading assessment and evaluation of the integrated IMPROVE system.
Contact: Don McIntyre
www : The Lighthouse
www : Urban Learning Space
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento (Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering) in Lisboa - is a non profit, privately owned, institution, with the status of "Institution of Public Interest", dedicated to advanced research and development in the domains of electronics, telecommunications and information technologies.
Role:Inesc-ID is responsible for innovative innovation for Large Scale Displays. In IMPROVE, Inesc-ID developed a novel interaction metaphor and IMMIView - The IMPROVE Prototype for large Scale Displays. IMMIView is a multi-modal, multi-user interaction system for Architectural Scenarios were the users interact using Laser Pointers; Speech Commands and Body Gestures.
Contact: Professor Joaquim A. Jorge
email: jaj@inesc-id.pt
www: Inesc-ID