On Thursday, 28 November at 16:15, the first meeting of the User Group of the Technology Support System for Learning for Students with and without Special Needs of the “Toolbox 2” project will take place at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in the Lucami classroom (st. B, floor -1). The…
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
May 17 2021 In November 2006, the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Antalya, Turkey, decided to celebrate both events on 17 May as World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. The updated Resolution 68 invites Member States and Sector Members to celebrate the day annually by organizing appropriate national programmes with a…
Living Lab automation: controlled lighting
Our Living lab got controlled lighting. Thanks to the company Entia, we have DALI controlled system allowing us to control lighting in the room in a simple and repeatable way.
Multimedia Exposure Measurement Experiment (MMEM)
In May of this year, we began an experiment to measure multimedia exposure. The study identifies the usefulness of psychophysiological signals for measuring multimedia exposure in terms of useful information for assessing multimedia exposure. As a true value of multimedia exposure, we will assess multimedia exposure using the MMES scale,…
The Communicator speaks Slovenian
The multi-year student project Communicator, which aims to create a socially intelligent communicator (a conversation system with an embodiment, aware of the user’s social signals), has reached a milestone – he speaks Slovenian. Technologies such as Amazon Alexa did not allow this, so we set up the architecture anew and…
Weak Ground Truth Determination of Continuous Human-Rated Data
A research paper (10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3046293) and web tool (https://www.lucami.org/en/WGT/) on Weak Ground Truth Determination of Continuous Human-Rated Data. The article presents a novel weak ground truth (WGT) determination and rater bias removal procedure on continuous human-rated data. The notion of WGT is essential in cases where there is no direct empirical…
Professor Andrej Košir will have a keynote speech at Slovenski oglaševalski festival
Title: Andrej Košir: Multimedia exposure meter using artificial social intelligence, Keynote at Slovenski oglaševalski festival (https://sof.si/govorci/) During the lecture, Andrej Košir will introduce the concept of measuring multimedia exposure with technology. It will open and highlight issues such as What is Multimedia Exposure? Is multimedia exposure objectively measurable? Is it…
Paper on student project building up student’s career prospects
Urban Burnik, Andrej Košir: Industrial product design project: building up engineering students’ career prospects The needs to bridge the academic skills of students involved in higher education and improve their readiness for employment in industry are being widely addressed. This paper presents results of a specific engineering project case supervised by…
Open PHD position
We have an open PhD position starting in 2017 financed by the Nielsen company. The objective of this PhD study is to design an automated personal multimedia exposure meter: Computational Approach towards Evaluating Cognitive Load on HCI-Related Tasks. This will be achieved by: 1.) creating an ambient data collection in line…
TEDx talk Andrej Košir: Social intelligence in communication
TEDx talk on artificial social intelligence is now available online.