Network of Excellence HUMAINE
Introduction to the HUMAINE network
HUMAINE (Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotion) is a Network of Excellence in the EU's Sixth Framework Programme, in the IST (Information Society Technologies) Thematic Priority IST-2002-2.3.1.6 Multimodal Interfaces.
The HUMAINE Network (Contract no. 507422) started on 1st January 2004, and is set out to run for four years. 33 partners from 14 countries participate in the network.
Project summary
HUMAINE aims to lay the foundations for European development of
systems that can register, model and/or influence human emotional and
emotion-related states and processes - 'emotion-oriented systems'. Such
systems may be central to future interfaces, but their conceptual
underpinnings are not sufficiently advanced to be sure of their real
potential or the best way to develop them. One of the reasons is that
relevant knowledge is dispersed across many disciplines. HUMAINE brings
together leading experts from the key disciplines in a programme
designed to achieve intellectual integration. It identifies six
thematic areas that cut across traditional groupings and offer a
framework for an appropriate division of labour - theory of emotion;
signal/sign interfaces; the structure of emotionally coloured
interactions; emotion in cognition and action; emotion in communication
and persuasion; and usability of emotion-oriented systems. Teams linked
to each area will run a workshop in it and carry out joint research to
define an exemplar embodying guiding principles for future work in
their area. Cutting across these are plenary sessions where teams from
all areas report; activities to create necessary infrastructure
(databases recognising cultural and gender diversity, an ethical
framework, an electronic portal); and output to the wider community in
the form of a handbook and recommendations of good practice (as
precursors to formal standards).
Presentations about HUMAINE
Here you can find the slides of some presentations, in pdf form.- The official HUMAINE project presentation
- Emotions for user-friendly multimodal interfaces, a presentation given at the IST Event 2004 in Den Haag
- Towards emotion-sensitive multimodal interfaces, Presentation given as an invited speech at the Workshop on "Adapting the interaction style to affective factors" at User Modelling 2005, July 25, Edinburgh
- Video: The network of excellence HUMAINE: Developing a consistent view on emotion-oriented computing, a 55 MB video of Marc presenting HUMAINE at MLMI-05. You need the free DivX codec to view this video.
- Presentation about Applications of emotion-oriented computing, given at EU All Interface Projects meeting, Luxemburg, 4 December 2006.