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EDM

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. Research institute of the Limburgs Universitair Centrum (LUC)

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  1. EXPERTISECENTRUM DIGITALE MEDIA(EDM)Limburgs Universitair CentrumManagingDirector: Prof. dr. E. FlerackersDeputy Managing Director : Prof. dr. F. Van ReethCo-ordination of HCI group: Prof. dr. K. Coninx

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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