E XPERTISECENTRUM D IGITALE M EDIA (EDM) Limburgs Universitair Centrum E XPERTISECENTRUM D IGITALE M EDIA (EDM) Limburgs Universitair Centrum Managing Director: Prof. dr. E. Flerackers Deputy Managing Director : Prof. dr. F. Van Reeth Co-ordination of HCI group: Prof. dr. K. Coninx

EDM u Research institute of the Limburgs Universitair Centrum (LUC) u Active in Information & Communication Technology (ICT) since 1987 u Professional team of 50 ICT-specialists in permanent employment u educational staff: 4 prof. + 4 assistants u approx. 30 university degree informatics u 11 PhD students

Activities of EDM u Basic research (oriented towards applied contexts) u Applied research and development u Services and consultancy

Activity areas u Computer Graphics, Computer Animation and Virtual Reality u User Interfacing (Human-Computer Interaction) u Multimediatechnology and Telematics u Multimedia environments

Computer Graphics, Computer Animation and Virtual Reality u HCI techniques in immersive Virtual Environments u Client-server architecture for networked VR u (Immersive) object modeling u Movement modeling in 3D VEs u Tools for computer animation in 2D and 3D

Multimedia Environments u historically: u programmed instruction u interactive video u CD-i u multimedia databases and servers u CD-ROM, Internet, DVD, hybrid u interactive multimedia training / learning systems u multimedia archive u multimedia program generators u...

Multimedia Technology and Telematics u networked multimedia solutions u multimedia communication systems u distributed video-on-demand server on hybrid ATM-switched Ethernet networks u broadband trials for WAN (ADSL, cable modems...) u to residential areas and student dorms u for networked multimedia u for collaborative work in virtual environments u for the realization of a virtual interactive studio

Human-Computer Interaction u in other research domains and a separate research area u ranging from GUIs over multimedia to immersive virtual environments u cooperation with graphical specialists u attention for u multimodality (e.g. speech recognition) u intelligent UIs (e.g. agents in virtual environments) u collaborative work

Basic and applied research u National projects (IWT, FWO, DWTC) u European projects u EFRD-projects (European Fund for Regional Development)

u VISINET u MAID u EMMI u ELECTRA u TOPILOT u SICMA u ECPW Leonardo u TRAFE Leonardo u E-DSRR u VALMMETH u PAVR u VISTA u ERASTA u POSTDOC u MENTOR u FLEX u... European projects More than 20 EC-projects up to now!

Applied research and development u A few examples... u Telematics : u systems for network management (Alcatel) u management of ATM-switches (Siemens-Atea) u Multimedia environments : u interactive catalogue on CD-ROM (IKEA) u education and training applications (BBL, Agfa Gevaert) u multimedia database (Muntschouwburg)

Services and consultancy u Technology transfer to SMEs in the context of the EFRD-projects u Consultancy (advice, analysis etc.) u Organisation of courses / training (a.o. ESF) / seminars / demonstrations

Computer platforms u Windows 95/98/NT u SGI IRIX u Sun Solaris u Linux u MacOS u Windows CE (research)

Development languages / environments (1) u Languages: C++, C, Java,... u MS Visual Studio (Visual C++ and MFC, Visual J++) u Borland Delphi, JBuilder, C++ Builder u For graphics development: OpenGL, Iris Performer, DirectX, VRML

Development languages / environments (2) u Internet oriented development: ActiveX, ASP, CGI, DHTML, HTML, Java Applets and Servlets, JavaScript, XML... u Components: ActiveX, COM/DCOM Experiments with CORBA and RMI u Databases (Oracle, MS Access, MS SQL Server, Informix, FoxPro,...) u Multimedia tools and techniques