The HUBIC Lab | The HUBIC Lab

Focus

The interplay of the different modalities involved in human behaviour
when interacting with physical objects, technology and other people,
for communicating, learning or just having fun!

Capture

Record multisensory data comprising speech, full-body and face motion,
eye movements and gaze,
in order to investigate social
behaviour and interaction with
the physical environment
and with human participants.

Analyze

Synchronize, process
and measure multimodal and multisensory data
to shed light to the patterns
of human behaviour,
cognition and interaction.

Generate

Immitate human verbal and bodily behaviors through robotic platforms and virtual characters. Develop realistic systems which can interact with their users by employing different modalities in a natural way in various applications and contexts.

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About the lab

Human behavior analyzed and modelled

Incubator of
leading-edge
research

The HUBIC Lab is designed to facilitate leading-edge research and experimentation in multimodal interaction, spanning from Human-Computer Interaction to human social behavior. HUBIC provides researchers with state-of-the-art device and infrastructure for capturing, analyzing and modelling the multimodal signals pertaining to human behavior: face and body motion, eye-tracking, Kinect sensors, high definition audio and video capturing equipment, robotic and virtual character platforms, biosensors (EEG) and more. See Equipment for a complete description.
The HUBIC Lab is housed at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing / “Athena” RIC.
The HUBIC Lab was established in the framework of the LangTERRA project “Enhancing the Research Potential of ILSP/”Athena” R.C. in Language Technology in the European Research ERA”. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 285924.

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What's up

Ongoing research and activities
at the HUBIC Lab

Expressive and multimodal speech synthesis

Multimodal speech synthesis, or audio-visual speech synthesis, deals with automatic generation of synchronized voice and facial animation from arbitrary text.

Affective dialogues with artificial embodied systems

Artificial human-like characters, either in the physical world in the form of humanoid robots, or in the virtual world in the form of virtual agents or avatars, have always fascinated people.

Multimodal communicative and social behaviours

The study of multiparty interactions provide a wealth of information regarding the communicative behaviors of humans.

Sign Language Processing

A sign language is a language which uses manual communication and body language to convey meaning, as opposed to acoustically conveyed sound patterns.

Learning and reading comprehension

Technology-enhanced environments need to be adaptive to learners’ needs and skills, to provide better support to learning.

HUBIC 2016 Special Session @ PCI’16

The HUBIC Lab successfully organized the HUBIC 2016 Special Session in the context of the 20th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI) with International Participation