TrabHCI, Technologies to Reduce the Access Barrier in Human Computer Interaction. Granted by the Finnish National Agency

IP-2012 SCHEDULE
IP- Schedule week 1 (March 19th - March 25th) see week 2
day time lecture Prof.
Monday 19 9:00 - 10:00
 Welcome & IP Presentations
IP socialization		 Elissa Hassinen
Eduardo Lleida
10:30 - 12:00

Visit to the special education school "Alborada"


We will learn about the use of the Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) to supplement or replace speech or writing for those with impairments in the production or comprehension of spoken or written language.

 María José Castro
Joan Pastor
Alfonso Ortega
Eduardo Lleida
12:00 - 13:00 IP project Teams
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Time  
14:30 - 17:00

Speech & Handwriting interfaces

This lecture will introduce to the students on the speech and handwriting intefaces.
The main part of the lecture is devoted to the speech interfaces, introducing the technologies related with speech recognition and synthesis by computers. We will study application cases for e-inclusion.

The following speech topics will be covered:
   -The speech signal: generation and perception
   -The speech signal: basic processing tools
   -Pattern recognition fundamentals for speech
   -Speech modeling
   -Speech synthesis
   -Speech recognition
   -Spoken dialog systems
   -Applications

The following handwriting topics will be covered:
   -Offline printed and handwritten text recognition
   -Online handwritten text recognition
   -Multimodal handwritten text recognition
   -Applications

More info ...

María José Castro
Joan Pastor
Alfonso Ortega
Eduardo Lleida
17:30 -

Panoramic Tour of Zaragoza - part I

Enjoy a panoramic tour of Zaragoza. Discover the most emblematic buildings in the city and visit the most important museums. The route will bring you face to face with the architectural, cultural and social history of the Historic Quarter ot the Aragonese capital.

 
       
Tuesday 20 9:00 - 13:00
 Speech & Handwriting interfaces María José Castro
Joan Pastor
Alfonso Ortega
Eduardo Lleida
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Time  
14:30 - 17:00

Artificial Intelligence & Natural Language Understanding

This lecture presents basic methods for knowledge representation and natural language processing and their implementation in the logic programming language Prolog.

The following topics will be covered:
   -Regular grammars
   -Context-free grammars
   -Syntax trees and ambiguous grammars
   -Relations and predicates
   -Knowledge representation and logical inference in
   Prolog
   -Definite clause grammars and genus-casus-
   congruence in Prolog

More info ...

Boris Hollas
       
Wednesday 21 9:00 - 13:00 Artificial Intelligence & Natural Language Understanding Boris Hollas
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Time  
14:30 - 17:00

Project Work

There will be two set of project work proposals. One set will be focus on the speech & handwriting technologies and the other set of proposals will combine results of the speech & handwriting recognition project with natural language processing.

The goal is to implement a simple dialogue system that receives input as speech or handwriting, processes both the audio signal and the resultant text, and provides an answer that is fed into a speech synthesizer to produce an output. We will present specific project ideas that you may choose from.

A set of project will focus on the speech & handwriting technolgies and another set will focus on the text processing and answer generation part.

Handwriting project proposal:
This project consists on using the Microsoft Tablet PC tool in applications that use a stylus or gesture features. Components and utilities for Microsoft .NET languages are provided in the toolkit.

The student will learn how to use visual controls which allow drawing input, and how to configure and use
the Windows Handwriting Recognize for a writing recognition task.

More specifically, the project consists on improving a Sudoku game using ink user input to introduce numbers. Also more features such as configure the Recognizer  or adding new Ink capabilities will be provided.

All
17:30 -

Panoramic Tour of Zaragoza - part II

Enjoy a panoramic tour of Zaragoza. Discover the most emblematic buildings in the city and visit the most important museums. The route will bring you face to face with the architectural, cultural and social history of the Aragonese capital.

  
       
Thrusday 22 9:00 - 13:00 Project Work All
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Time  
14:30 - 17:00 Project Work All
       
Friday 23 9:00 - 13:00 Project Work All
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Time  
14:30 - 17:00 Project Presentations All
18:00

Visit to the Zaragoza Aquarium

The Freshwater Aquarium in Zaragoza is the biggest in Europe and the third largest in the world and can be found in the heart of the Expo 2008 site. It is designed to educate, investigate and inform on a journey along 5 of the planet`s great rivers: Nile, Mekong, Amazon, Darling Murray and Ebro. Further information
       
Saturday 24 9:00 - 13:00

Free Programme

... Just enjoy Zaragoza

 All teachers & students
13:00 - 14:30
14:30 - 17:00
Sunday 25 9:00 - 13:00 Important!!!
Clock changes to Summer time, so 2:00 will be 3:00

Alquezar and Somontano vineyards

See the programme ...
Meeting point: Sunday 25th at 8:00 in the morning at the Paseo de Echegaray y Caballero, just at the Basilica del Pilar bus stop area.

The Medieval Township of Alquezar is found on the banks of the River Vero, practically in the centre of the province of Huesca, in the county of the Somontano of Barbastro. It is situated at an altitude of 660m on one of the sierras parallel to the Pyrenees mountain range, the "Sierra de Guara".

It is perfectly integrated into a striking landscape, headed all the while by the valley of the River Vero. The beauty of the village of Alquezar and its setting is such that, in 1990, the Government of Aragon was led to declare it “Nature Reserve of the Sierra and Canyons of Guara.”.

The wine region of Somontano lies at the foot of the Pyrenees Mountains. The name Somontano actually means "Under the Mountain". The region is gorgeous with green fields and hills, wildflowers, medieval hamlets, and lonely hilltop monasteries. The principal wine town is Barbastro, with most of the wineries close by. The climate in this part of Spain is continental with snowy winters and hot summer months, and extremely sudden changes in temperature when the seasons change.

 All teachers & students
13:00 - 14:30
14:30 - 17:00