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Pierre Nugues & Klas Nilsson, Lund University, SwedenPierre Nugues' research is focused on natural language processing for advanced user interfaces. It includes the design and the implementation of conversational agents within a multimodal framework and text visualization. Pierre is also interested in cognitive links between language, visualization, and psychology. He took part in the European project VEPSY to use virtual reality in clinical psychology that won an honorable mention from the eEurope award program.Pierrehas a PhD from the UniversityofNancy and is the author the book "An Introduction to Language Processing with Perl and Prolog" published by Springer. Klas Nilsson has a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, a PhD in Automatic Control, and he is an Associate Professor (Docent) in Computer Science, all from Lund University, Sweden. He has several years of working experience from the robotics industry, where he worked at ABB Robotics in Västerås, Sweden, with motion control algorithms and software support for robot programming. Klas has a leading role in several EU robot projects, and he is a past AdCom member but still active in the Industrial Activities Board of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. His current primary topic is system integration including software aspects of robot control and interaction.
Knowledge-based human-robot interactionFuture robot programming needs to be more of intuitive interaction (not requiring the user to be a skilled programmer), referring to terms and objects that exist physically in the workspace. To that end, Lund University has together with jayway/dotway/labway and other partners of SMErobot (www.smerobot.org) developed principles for generating such dialogs. Primary modalities are speech (using VoiceXML), web forms, and Anoto forms on digital paper. For Anoto support, the application specific generation of the forms is accomplished by server-side processing of tagged pen data. The principles are belived to be relevant also for other types of device interactions, e.g via mobile phones with ad-hoc connections to the equipment at hand.
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