PROGRAM
 
July 7, 2011 | Thursday

9:00 – 9:30 Registration

9:30- 9:50 OPENING (Room A)


Péter Baranyi, General Chair

9:50 – 11:10 PLENARY SESSION I (Room A)

Chairman: Péter Baranyi

9:50 Gyula Sallai (BME TMIT, Hungary):
The Cradle of the Cognitive Infocommunications
10:30 Hideki Hashimoto (Chuo University, Tokyo,Japan):
Current Situations and Issues of Intelligent Spaces from Viewpoints of CogInfoCom – iSpace for CogInfoCom

11:10 - 11:30 Coffee break 

11:30 – 12:50 PLENARY SESSION II (Room A)

Chairman: Gyula Sallai

11:30 Martin Buss (Technical University of Munchen, German): The Autonomous City Explorer
ACEProject - Some Lessons Learnt
12:10 Ádám Miklósi (ELTE ET, Hungary): Toward a new interdisciplinary approach connecting ethology and robotics

12:50 - 14:00 Lunch break 

14:00 – 15:40 SESSION I-A:DESIGN OF HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS AND INTELLIGENT SPACE (Room A)

Chairman: Mihoko Niitsuma

14:00 Y. Kunii: Tele-Navigation of Planetary Rover “Micro 6” by Command Path Compensation with Robust Landmark Tracking (demonstration)
14:20 T. Sasaki, H. Hashimoto: Integration of Distributed Sensor System Based on Position Information
14:40 M. Niitsuma, A. Shiraishi, H. Kobayashi: Extended User Interface for Improving Usability of Spatial Memory
15:00 P. Kovács, M. Niitsuma: Spatial Memory in VirCA (demonstration)
15:20 I. Fülöp: Emotion Dependent Dialogs in the VirCA System

 

14:00 – 15:40 SESSION I-B: ROBOTICS (Room B)

Chairman: Péter Korondi

14:00 M. Buss, D. Carton, B. Gonsior, K. Kuehnlenz, C. Landsiedel, N. Mitsou, R. de Nijs, J. Zlotowski, S. Sosnowski, E. Strasser, M. Tscheligi, A. Weiss, D. Wollherr: Towards Proactive Human-Robot Interaction in Human Environments
14:20 Sz. Szalai, Z. Vidnyánszky, T. Szirányi: Estimation for the eye movement using the spanning tree of transition probability-based graphs
14:40 J. Nacsa, I. Paniti, S. Kopácsi: Incremental Sheet Forming in Cyberspace – a Process Oriented Cognitive Robotics Application
15:00 J. Lam, Y. Yam: Application of Brush Footprint Geometric Model for Realization of Robotic Chinese Calligraphy
15:20 B. Kovács, G. Száyer, P. Korondi, M. Gácsi, Á. Miklósi, Sz. Kovács, D. Vincze: Ethologically Inspired Robot Design
 

15:40 – 16:00 Coffee break 

16:00 – 17:20 SESSION II-A: COGNITIVE INFOCOMMUNICATION IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (Room A)

Chairman: Rudolf Jaksa and Peter Sinčák

16:00 M. Ilavsky, R. Jaksa: Cognitive Evolution of Graphical User Interface with GTK Toolkit
16:20 J. Juhár, A. Čižmár, Ľ. Doboš, S. Ondáš, M. Pleva, J. Papaj: Speech technologies for cognitive communication and information systems
16:40 B. Sobota, F. Hrozek, Š. Korečko, Cs. Szabó: Virtual reality technologies as an interface of cognitive communication and information systems
17:00 Demonstration

 

16:00 – 17:20 SESSION II-B: THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF COGINFOCOM CHANNELS (Room B)

Chairman: Ádám Csapó

16:00 P. Galambos, P. Baranyi: Vibrotactile Force Feedback for Telemanipulation: Concept and Applications
16:20 Á. Csapó, P. Baranyi: Unifi ed Terminology of CogInfoCom
16:40 Á. Csapó: Interpretable tuning model for CogInfoCom
17:00 B. Reskó, Á. Csapó: Bodicon based CogInfoCom Channel for Self-Navigation in 3D Environments

 

17:30 – 18:30 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: MECHATRONICS IN COGNITIVE INFOCOMMUNICATIONS FOR THE ATTENDEE OF AIM 2011 & COGINFOCOM 2011 (Room A)


19:00 – 21:00 WELCOME RECEPTION

July 8, 2011 | Friday

 

9:00 – 11:00 PLENARY SESSION III (Room A)

Chairman: Gábor Magyar

9:00 Csaba Pléh (BME KTT, Budapest, Hungary): Positive and negative impact of WEB based knowledge management on human information processing
9:40 György Ábrahám DSc, Balázs V. Nagy PhD (BME MOGI, Budapest, Hungary): Cognition factors in colour identifi cation of colour blind people
10:20 Trygve Thomessen (PPM AS, Norway) :Remote Control of Industrial Robot System Using Cognitive Info Communication

11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 – 12:40 SESSION III-A: DATA-DRIVEN VISUAL INTELLIGENCE  (Room A)

Chairman: Gyula Sallai

11:20 Cs. Gáspár-Papanek: Ensemble of Classifi ers for Pedestrian Recognition
11:40 I. Nagy: Cognitive aspects of augmented reality applications
12:00 Z. Prekopcsák, G. Nagy: Eff ective sensor-bridging with visual preattentive features
12:20 Zs. T. Kardkovács (U1 Ltd): Real-time Traffi c Sign Recognition System (demonstration)

11:20 – 12:40 SESSION III-B: LIREC SESSION: LIVING IN LONG-TERM  (Room B)

RELATIONSHIPS WITH ROBOTIC COMPANIONS

Chairman: Ádám Miklósi

11:20 B. Gáspár, E. Kubinyi, Á. Miklósi: Developing a dog-human social interaction test for robotic benchmarking
11:40 V. Konok, Á. Miklósi: Attribution of emotion to animals, and its relevance to the development of emotional behaviour in robots
12:00 M. Gácsi, M. Janiak, L. Malek, A. Kis: Humans are able to attribute emotions to a robot showing simple behavioural patterns borrowed from dog behaviour
12:20 G. Lakatos, M. Janiak, L. Malek, R. Muszynski, K. Arent, K. Tchon, Á. Miklósi: A new approach for testing social robots: Studying robot-dog interactions

12:40 – 14:00 Lunch break

Track: Speech Technology for Cognitive Infocommunications

Session IV-A: Speech Interaction 14:00 – 15:20
Session V-A: Recognition of verbal and non-verbal contents of speech 15:40 – 17:20

14:00 – 15:20 SESSION IV-A: SPEECH INTERACTION  (Room A)

(Track: Speech Technology for Cognitive Infocommunications)
Chairman: Géza Németh

14:00 B. Tarján, P. Mihajlik, A. Balog, T. Fegyó: Evaluation of Lexical Models for
Hungarian Broadcast Speech Transcription and Spoken Term Detection
14:20 B. Tóth, G. Németh: Some Aspects of HMM Speech Synthesis Optimization on Mobile Devices
14:40 G. Németh, Á. Viktóriusz, C. Zainkó, K. Juhász, M. Bartalis: Speech-enhanced Interaction with TV
15:00 J. G. Han, J. Dalton, B. Vaughan, C. Oertel, C. Dougherty, C. De Looze, N. Campbell: Collecting Multi-modal Data of Human-Robot Interaction

14:00 – 15:20 SESSION IV-B: COGNITIVE SCIENCE  (Room B)

Chairman: Ilona Kovács

14:00 F. Gombos, V. Konok, I. Kovács, Á. Miklósi: Dog tail explorer – Automatic dog mood identifi cation based on tail wagging using image processing techniques and learning algorithms
14:20 Z. Jakab: Embodied inference, veridicality, and types of perceptual error
14:40 T. Faragó, M. Gácsi: Humans are able to recognize emotions by behavioural expressions of an abstract artifi cial agent
15:00 Cs. Szabó, A. Róka, T. Faragó, M. Gácsi, Á. Miklósi, P. Korondi: Building a Human-Dog Interaction Inspired Emotional Engine Model

15:20 – 15:40 Coffee break

15:40 – 17:20 SESSION V-A: RECOGNITION OF VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL CONTENTS OF SPEECH  (Room A)

(Track: Speech Technology for Cognitive Infocommunications)
Chairman: Klára Vicsi

15:40 M. T. Riviello, M. Chetouani, D. Cohen, A. Esposito: Inferring Emotional Information from
Vocal and Visual cues: a cross-cultural comparison
16:00 Gy. Szaszák, Á. M. Tündik, K. Vicsi: Automatic Speech to Text Transformation of Spontaneous Job Interviews on the HuComTech Database
16:20 K. Vicsi, D. Sztahó: Emotional State Recognition in Customer Service Dialogues Through Telephone Line
16:40 D. Sztahó: Automatic emotion recognition from audio signal in spontaneous speech (demonstration)
17:00 K. Jokinen, G. Wilcock: Emergent Verbal Behaviour in Human-Robot Interaction

Track: Cognitive Ergonomics
Session V-B: Human Factors of Infocommunication – I 14:00 – 17:20
Session VI-B: Human Factors of Infocommunication – II 17:30 – 18:30

 

14:00 – 17:20 SESSION V-B: HUMAN FACTORS OF INFOCOMMUNICATION – I  (Room B)

Chairman: Károly Hercegfi

15:40 Z. Farkas, G. Mischinger, Gy. Szabó: Auxiliay Information System Applications to Support Control Room Operator Activities
16:00 R. Mátrai Kosztyán, Zs. T. Kosztyán: A New Method for Characterization of Perspicuity of User Interfaces
16:20 A. Komlódi, E. Józsa, K. Hercegfi, Sz. Kucsora, D. Borics: Empirical Usability Evaluation of the Wii Controller as an Input Device for the VirCA Immersive Virtual Space
16:40 K. Hercegfi , M. Köles, S. Tóvölgyi, A. Komlódi, E. Józsa, Gy. Rózsa, J. Boross: Eye-tracking Based Usability Evaluation of an Emotional Display Object Integrated to the Virtual Robot Collaboration Arena
17:00 R. Mátrai, Zs. T. Kosztyán, C. Sik Lányi: Navigation Strategies on Multi-Column Textual Pages 

17:30 – 18:30 SESSION VI-A: HUMAN FACTORS OF INFOCOMMUNICATION – II  (Room A)

Chairman: Károly Hercegfi

17:30 C. Sík Lányi, D. J. Brown, P. Standen, J. Lewis, V. Butkute, D. Drozdik: GOET European Project of Serious Games for Students with Intellectual Disability
17:50 K. Hercegfi: Heart Rate Variability Applying to Identify Mental Eff ort (demonstration)

17:30 – 18:30 SESSION VI-B: DEMONSTRATIONS  (Room B)

Chairman: Péter Galambos

17:30 Virtual sensors
17:50 Audio based CogInfoCom Channels
18:10 Vibration based CogInfoCom Channels

19:00 – GALA DINNER

  

 
July 9, 2011 | Saturday

9:00 – 10:40 SESSION VII-A: HUMAN SYSTEM INTERACTION IN IMMERSIVE 3D SPACE (Room A)

Chairman: Szilveszter Kovács

9:00 D. Vincze, Sz. Kovács, P. Baranyi: Interconnecting the Spatial Eto-Motor and the VirCA Environment
9:20 Sz. Kovács, M. Gácsi, D. Vincze, P. Korondi, Á. Miklósi: A novel, ethologically inspired HRI model implementation: Simulating dog-human attachment
9:40 Z. Krizsán, Sz. Kovács: Introducing ICE Service port in the RTMiddleware Framework
10:00 Z. Krizsán, Sz. Kovács: VirCA System Editor for immersive 3D space
10:20 D. Vincze, Z. Krizsán, Sz. Kovács: Spatial Eto-Motor and the SST scenario int he VirCA Environment (demonstration)

9:00 – 10:40 SESSION VII-B: INDUSTRIAL SESSION (Room B)

Chairman: Péter Baranyi

9:00 G. Vitályos: The Object Permanency Principle in the Usability Discipline
9:20 P. Kovács:
9:40 L. Nemes Phd, A. Kövécs: The fast mobile prototyping tool for cognitive infocommunication research projects
10:00 T. Thomessen, T. Kosicki:  Cognitive Audio-Visual Infocommunication Applied in Remote Support for Industrial Robot Systems
10:20 T. Kifor, T. Gottdank, Á. Hajnal, P. Baranyi, B. Korondi, P. Korondi: Smartphone Emotions Based on Human-Dog Interaction

10:40 – 11:00 Coffee break

 
11:00 – 12:40 SESSION VIII-A: CONTROL AND COGNITION – I (Room A)

Chairman: Claudiu Pozna

11:00 Cs. Antonya: INCOGNITO: Cognitive Interaction Between Human and Virtual Environment for Engineering Applications
11:20 C. Pozna, R.-E. Precup: Results Concerning a New Pattern of Human Knowledge
11:40 G. Szűcs, G. Magyar: Classifi cation, Recognition and Feedback in Text based Metacommunication
12:00 Á. Abuczki, K. Bertók, A. Bódog, L. Hunyadi, G. Nagy, N. Nagy, E. Németh T., P. Németi, I. Szekrényes: The outlines of a theory and technology of human–computer interaction as represented in the model of the HuComTech project
12:20 D. Molnár, Z. Szlávik: Joint Boosting of Histogram like Features for the Generic Recognition of Object Classes and Subclasses

11:00 – 12:40 SESSION VIII-B: COGNITIVE FEATURES IN MECHATRONICS (Room B)

Chairman: Péter Korondi

11:00 S. J. Piros, P. Korondi: Biologically Inspired Informatics; Algorithm for Logical Data  Processing
11:20 P. Major: Image Processing Framework for Traffi c Monitoring
11:40 K. Bolla, Z. Istenes, T. Kovacs, G. Fazekas: A Fast Image Processing Based Robot Identifi cation Method for Surveyor SRV-1 Robots
12:00 D. H. Kim, P. Baranyi, Nair: Emotion Dynamic Express by Fuzzy Function for Emotion Robot
12:20 P. Várlaki

12:40 – 13:40 Lunch break

13:40 – 15:00 SESSION IX: CONTROL AND COGNITION – II (Room A)

Chairman: Claudiu Pozna

13:40 J. K. Tar, I. J. Rudas, J. F. Bitó, C. Pozna: Adaptive Control Design in Chaos Synchronization as Alternative of Lyapunov’s Direct Method
14:00 A.I. Stînean, S. Preitl, R. E. Precup, C. Pozna, C.-A. Dragoş, M.-B. Rădac:
Speed and Position Control of BLDC Servo Systems with Low Inertia
14:20 C. Pozna, L. T. Kóczy, Á. Ballagi, M. Takács: Nonlinear systems controller design as a result of Uninorm tuning
14:40 D. Talaba, Cs. Antonya, A. Stavar, V. C. Georgescu: Virtual Reality in Product Design and Robotics

15:00 – 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 – 15:30 CLOSING CEREMONY (Room A)

 

16:00 – VIRTUAL COLLABORATION ARENA – Demonstration at MTA SZTAKI


The demonstration will be in the 3D virtual laboratory of MTA SZTAKI. Various examples will be shown how cognitive infocommunication devices can help a user in a human sized 3D virtual environment to manupulate and collaborate with diff erent complex systems, when the components (robots, intelligent engines, haptic devices) of the system are distributed on the internet and are located in diff erent countries.