08.30 - 09.00

Check In & Coffee

Opening

Chair: Dr. O. Krone

09.00 - 09.10

Opening Remarks

Prof. Dr. Alfred Strohmeier, President of SARIT
Andreas Dürsteler, Swisscom Innovations

Keynote

09.10 - 10.00

Applied Voice Technologies: Innovative Interfaces

Dr. Carsten Guenther, EMEA Voice Technology Development, IBM Germany

10.00 - 10.30

Research and Developments in Text-to-Speech Technology and talking Heads

Dr. Beat Pfister, TIK, ETH Zurich; Martin Weber SVOX AG

Coffee Break (10.30 - 10.45)

Research Topics (IM2)

Chair: R. Van Kommer

10.45 - 11.15

Browsing Recorded Meetings

Dr. Pierre Wellner, IDIAP, Martigny

11.15 - 11.45

Automated Generation of Finalized Dialogue Based Interfaces

Dr. Martin Rajman, Institute LIA, EPFL

11.45 - 12.15

Multimodal Document Alignment

Prof. Dr. Rolf Ingold, DIUF, UNI Fribourg

Lunch (12.15 - 13.30)

During lunch time, presentations and demonstrations will be shown by Swisscom Innovations
and by some of the major key players in the market:

- Kirusa Inc/Telisma/Helwett Packard (Schweiz) GmbH
- Nuance Communications/LogicTree Corp
- 8Hertz
- ScanSoft Inc.

Advanced Applications

Chair: Dr. J.L. Cochard, Vocalify AG

13.30 - 13.55

Cod-lt: multimodal Interface for secure Identification

Prof. Dr. Lorenz Müller, Technology Transfer, University of Applied Science Biel

13.55 - 14.20

Design of Multimodal User Interfaces for Mobile Applications

Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Hutter, Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur

14.20 - 14.45

Multimodal Services

Robert Van Kommer, Swisscom Innovations

Coffee Break (14.45 - 15.00)

Industry View

Chair: A. Dürsteler

15.00 - 15.25

Breaking the Myths: Experiences with Multimodality

Dr. Inderpal Mumick, CEO Kirusa / Hewlett Packard Inc. USA

15.25 - 15.45

Multimodal: The technology is ready - are you?

Thomas Moser, Technical Consultant EMEA, Nuance Com.
Masoud Loghmani, CTO LogicTree Corp. USA

15.45 - 16.10

The Multimodal Approach of Real Time Communication Systems

Matthias Müller, Consultant, Siemens Schweiz AG

16.10 - 17.00

Closure & Apéro

A. Dürsteler, Swisscom Innovations