What we are doing..

Projects

 


Media Space Navigator (2007-2008)

A recommender system that helps TV viewers to navigate content which interests them from the plethora of television programmes and video-on-demand broadcasting based on meta-data, multimodal similarity matching and user feedback [VHL+08].

with Telekom Austria TA AG1

Telekom Austria Cube (2006-2007)

To enable easy interaction in a home entertainment environment, PCA has created a tangible remote control that interacts with consumer electronics components. PCA designed a cube that you can flip and rotate, which maps to a set of commands enabling the control of interactive TV content [FVEW08]. Besides interaction, power-efficient design played a key role to success of this battery-operated device.

with Telekom Austria TA AG

SPECTACLES (2005-2008)

SPECTACLES project aims at creating a autonomous computing platform that is integrated into the frame structure of glasses. The system includes components for communication, interaction and sensing to support different application areas. (FIT-IT ES Project Nr. 809 450). Key challenges were system integration and miniaturization and a power-aware design of hardware and software components.

with Silhouette International Schmied AG2 and others