CALLAS - Conveying Affectiveness in Leading-Edge Living Adaptive Systems

The CALLAS Integrated Project aims to design and to develop a multimodal architecture which will include emotional aspects in order to support applications in the new media business scenario with an “ambient intelligence” paradigm.

The vision underlining the CALLAS Project is that new media can enhance user participation in content, media, and social interaction. In many ways, if old media is something static in the user experience, new media is a dynamic process that stimulates interaction and communication with users and technology. This dynamic approach entails a strong attention to all interface and interaction aspects. CALLAS would like to analyse, understand, and advance this participation including all the emotional aspects relevant to human communication processes.

Contemporarily, the CALLAS Consortium believes that one of the most interesting factors in human emotional interaction is the space where it takes place. For this reason, the scenarios chosen for CALLAS are all relevant different typologies of space: theatres, home, squares, festivals, etc. The CALLAS goal is to bridge the gap between the emerging capacity of conveying emotional aspects within multi-modal interaction and the growing expectations of people for a more natural and pervasive interaction with digital media applications in intelligent adaptive spaces.

[text pasted from CALLAS' website]