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| Goal | ||
| Realizing effective communication of human experience using information technology. | ||
| Vision | ||
| Communication and computing technology is advancing at an accelerated pace. Humans are finding it difficult to keep pace with these changes, and yet these new technologies are supposedly made for the benefit of humans. The Human Communication Technology (HCT) Research Laboratory researches a number of key issues which put people "back in the loop" and allow us to communicate experiences to computer systems and each other more effectively. An awareness of people's different cognitive, physical and emotional capabilities provides a foundation for acquiring, analyzing, representing, storing, retrieving, transmitting, communicating and ultimately synthesizing human experience. Faster processing machines, bigger data capacity, new algorithms, multimedia and multimodal systems will be combined with developments in medicine psychology, sociology and art to enhance the communication abilities between people and machines. | ||
| Innovation | ||
| Our innovation stems from the integration of human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence. We seek to incorporate human experience as the critical entity processed by people and systems. This focus on experience leads to novel ways of thinking about how our machines facilitate and support communication between people and machines. These concepts in turn allow the exploration, creation and development of new technologies, as well as radically new metaphors for work and play. As the functionality of our machines out-paces our needs, the focus on human experience becomes even more critical. | ||
| Sponsors | ||
| The HCT laboratory is grateful to it sponsors for the generous support they have provided. Please contact Dr. Sidney Fels if you would be interested in sponsoring research projects and/or laboratory activity. | ||
| Industry | ||
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Altera Inc., US ATR Media Integration & Communications (MIC), Japan ATR Human Information Sciences (HIS), Japan Bell University Labs / Bell Sympatico Dlink, Inc. Haskins Laboratory, US Infusion Systems Inc., Canada Kaiser Electro-Optics Inc., US New Media Innovation Centre (NewMIC), Canada Nissan Research Centre, Japan Nissan Research of America, US Nippon Telephone Telegraph, Japan NVIDIA, Inc. Panasonic, Inc. Polhemus Inc., US Tactex Controls Inc., Canada |
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Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council(NSERC) BC Innovation Council (BCIC) Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Canada Council for the Arts Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Western Economic Diversification Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) |
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Dept. of ECE Peter Wall Institute for Advances Studies Teaching & Learning Education Fund (TLEF) Institute for Computing, Information & Cognitive Systems (ICICS) Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC) | ||
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