COGAIN Kick-Off Tampere, Finland University of Koblenz-Landau Michael Kühn

The University of Koblenz-Landau University of Koblenz-Landau Departments of Education Departments of Humanities and Social Sciences Departments of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Department of Psychology Institute for Computational Visualistics Department of Computer Science U KO-LD  9,300 students  354 scientific employees  3 sites: Koblenz, Landau, Mainz

Institute for Computational Visualistics  Working groups (scientific staff members) Prof. Harbusch: Computational linguistics (2) Prof. Krause: Software ergonomics, information retrieval (1) Prof. Müller: Computer graphics (4) Prof. Oppermann: Software ergonomics (1) Prof. Paulus: Active vision, 3D-reconstruction, image processing (5) Prof. Priese: Image recognition, theoretical computer science (7)

 AkKo: Compact text entry for persons with motor impairments (2002 – 2004, DFG)  Virtual endoscopy (2000 –, DFG special research area)  EACL Workshop “Language modeling for text entry methods”, Budapest, Hungary,  IJCNLP Thematic session “Natural language technology in mobile information retrieval and text processing user interfaces”, Hainan, China,  Dagstuhl Seminar “Efficient text entry”, 2005 Projects and workshops

Ambiguous keyboard in UKO-II  Highly ambiguous keyboard  3 letter keys, 1 command key  implemented in XEmacs  word disambiguation with statistical language modeling  typing interface issues Goal: efficient typing with low motor requirements

Detection of eye end positions  4 or 5 eye end positions  independent of head position  eye position hold 0.5 – 1 sec  USB or IEEE-1394 camera  possibly with IR lighting and marker Goal: key activiation by detection of eye end positions

People Involved in COGAIN Karin Harbusch Detlev DroegeMichael KühnAnastasia A. Trisnayuda Dietrich PaulusPeter Rödler

Contributions in COGAIN  Durable community building (WP1)  Gaze communication system tools (WP4)  Eye tracking development (WP5)  Training (WP8)