About ASTUTE project

ASTUTE aims at defining reference architecture for the development of HMIs, targeting proactive information retrieval and delivery based on situational context, as well influenced by information content and services, and user state information. This architecture will support the user intentions, optimizing the choices available to the user, while keeping the user in control of the situation. Verified by demonstrators, the architecture will allow for multiple instantiations for different domains such as avionics, automotive and emergency management.

The ultimate goal is to develop a platform for building embedded products that capture and act upon user intentions thereby taking into account the user’s context (i.e. user environment and all the factors which will influence the user performance) and state (i.e. aspects determining the ability of the user to perform in a given situation). The challenge is to seamlessly access relevant multimodal information in a context-sensitive way. For instance, in the aviation domain, this architecture will be used in novel design of the flight deck alerting and notification system. Pilots will receive alerts and notifications via a multimodal interface which selects the appropriate modality on the basis of the context and the user state. In the automotive domain, the system will integrate information from various sources (camera, physiological parameters, etc.) to proactively present decision support information, at the right level of detail according to the context, by discarding annoying or distracting low level information.

The ASTUTE approach will be validated with demonstrators proposed by large industrial organizations (Thales, ST-Italy, Akhela, Luciad, FluidHouse and THT control):
1) Intelligent Cockpit: Empathy and support to anticipation (avionics);
2) Embedded driver infotainment system (automotive);
3) Smart embedded emergency dispatching system (emergency management);
4) Virtual control room (building & manufacturing process management).
 

Partners:

TUT, Department of Production Engineering
Atos Origin SAE
SIRRIS
Fundación Tekniker
Thales
STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
Akhela
Luciad
FluidHouse
THT Control
Acondicionamiento Tarrasense
Equalid Solutions, S.L.
IRIDA Labs
Brno University of Technology
Integrasys S.A.
Politecnico di Milano
IOS International
Pininfarina S.P.A.
Camea, spol. s r.o.
Telecom Design S.r.l.
El Jardín de Junio
Namahn
Prodatec Oy
Smart Solutions Technologies S.L.
Ecole Nationale de Sciences Cognitives