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Multimodal Interfaces for Capturing and Transfer of Skill Sponsored By:Interaction-Ivrea: Sony: SKILLS is an Integrated Project in the framework of the strategical objective Multimodal Interfaces. The SKILLS proposal deals with the acquisition, storing and transfer of human skill by means of multimodal interfaces, Virtual Environments technologies and Interaction Design methodologies. A particular skill is difficult to be described. The modeling of a specific act of doing represents a challenge in some fields of research such as cognitive science, psychology, robotics, biomechanics and other behaviour-related studies. The research in SKILLS addresses the fundamental aspects of skill analysis from a cognitive science and interaction design point of view. For specific contexts of operation, cognitive aspects of tasks executed by skilled persons are analyzed and utilized to obtain a digital representation of skill and the definition of methodologies and techniques for capturing and rendering skill. The capability of being able to acquire, storing and transfer specific skills, such as those of a craftsman or of a surgeon, into the digital domain can generate new ways of interacting with the computer and communicate knowledge through it. The introduction of more direct and intuitive paradigms of interaction with the computer, as those planned in SKILLS, can render future software applications more accessible to non-specialists. Moreover, the process of acquiring and storing skill allows to generate digital archives of performed acts of doing which are usually lost when the craftsman or the skilled worker loses his/her capabilities due to illness or declining of years. SKILLS takes into consideration three application domains for demonstrators: sport and entertainment, surgery and rehabilitation, manufacturing and industry. Interaction design methodologies are implemented in these contexts in order to address the design of novel interfaces focused on skill transfer and being able to improve task performances or generate innovative processes.
The SKILLS consortium comprehends Universities and Research Centres with expertise in Cognitive Science, Psychology, Interaction Design, Virtual Environments, Augmented Realities and Robotics together with Industries representative of the above specified application domains.
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