18/Feb/09: CALLAS scores "Good to excellent"

CALLAS evaluated as "Good to excellent" after 2^nd Review with the European Commission

The CALLAS 2^nd Review took place at Teesside University in Middlesbrough on January 28-29, 2009, where the progress made in the project during the period M13 to M24 was illustrated to the Commission and to three external Reviewers.
(pictures taken at the event are in CÂ³: the CALLAS Community Club members pages here).

The CALLAS Consortium is now pleased to announce that the official Review Report received from the Commission confirms that CALLAS has fully achieved its objectives and technical goals for the period and has even exceeded expectations, reaching the maximum score in the evaluation period.

CALLAS entered its 3^rd year of operations on November 1^st2008 (M25).
Following reviewers' recommendations, future activities will particularly focus on

theoretical aspects of emotion capturing, modelling and fusing
validation of components through quasi-experiments and natural observations
demonstration of the progress beyond the current state-of-the-art
validation of the showcases applications to complete loop between emotional expression and digital adaptations.

Snapshot of CALLAS partners activities at M24 (from the poster session occurred during the Review):

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA- Italy: poster
British Broadcasting Corporation - United Kingdom: poster
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - Finland: poster
Studio Azzurro - Italy: poster
XIM - United Kingdom: poster
Digital Video - Italy: poster
Humanware - Italy: poster
NEXTURE Consulting srl - Italy : poster
University of Augsburg - Germany : poster#1 , poster#2
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems - National Technical University of Athens - Greece : poster
Faculty of Engineering, University of Mons - Belgium: poster
University of Teesside - United Kingdom : poster#1, poster#2; poster#3
The Helsinki Institute for Information Technology - Finland : poster
Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa - Italy : poster
University of Reading - United Kingdom: poster
Fondazione Teatro Massimo - Italy : poster
Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand - New Zealand : poster

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