Designing and developing interactive multimedia applications

This talk presents the design and development process of interactive multimedia and multimodal systems used in diverse environments. The technologies, including new sensors, interaction surfaces and semantic information processing techniques will be described in the context where they were used. The systems result from collaborative projects in several fields, ranging from cultural heritage to contemporary art and dance. The dialogue with stakeholders from different areas and the impact on the resulting outcomes will be discussed, along with the process of setting up, specifying and developing interdisciplinary projects and the methodologies that are used. Recent work on motion annotation to help choreographic work, image analysis of paintings and digital art projects will be described. The academic and research environment and programs in which this work is done are also presented.