Research in this field is conducted by a number of groups within the department of Computer Science. In the data management group there is a growing interest in multi-media. The attention for multi-media and information retrieval as practiced in Twente is unique in the Netherlands. Research is also directed towards developing ambient data management solutions for ambient intelligence environments, through a peer-to-peer-based multi-media database infrastructure for the support of person-oriented, context-aware access in distributed or ad-hoc environments.
Human-computer interaction at the UT has always been aimed at multi-modal interaction that is directed by the (im)possibilities of the environment. The starting point in this for the computer is multi-modal representation. This research is linked to research in the field of social user-interfaces and an interest in the possibilities of speech and language that is also present in multi-media retrieval research.
Virtual Reality is the collective name for creating artificial products or complete artificial environments, for example in offering training environments, or testbeds for a product design. A great deal of research in EEMCS is directed towards agent-oriented design of such systems and towards systems interaction by means of intelligent and social agents.
Within the University of Twente VRINT functions as a clustering of Virtual Reality research in the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science, and the faculty of Engineering Technology, as a collaboration of CTIT and BMTI. Applications in VRINT are concentrated in the field of the development of tools for rehabilitation, befitting Twente’s focus in this regard.
