Research in the CHIM cluster centres on the passage of information from and between human users and computer systems and aims to model processing and interaction solutions for managing the interaction between humans and the interfaces to the computer systems available to them (notebooks, mobile phones, cameras, PDAs …). Detailed research is being carried out on both ends of this interaction. That is to say, work is being done on computer analysis of audio and video data but also on how the human brain processes auditory and visual information and how the affective cognitive status of a user affects decision making or the acceptance of information provided by a computer.

The main research questions pursued in CHIM are:

• How can we enhance multi-modal input recognition, fusion, DAM, fission and output using computational models of human interaction?
• How can we detect and repair situations in which the human or the machine is lacking information or in which the trust and belief in the information that is communicated can be enhanced?
• How can we best integrate multimodal interaction technologies such that new applications are fast and cost-effective to build?
• How can we better understand the capabilities and limitations of human cognitive processing in situations that vary unpredictably and cause high (or very low) cognitive load?