MCSquared (http://mc2-project.eu) is funded by the European Commission under FP7 (Project no. 610467), Strategic Objective ICT-2013.8.1 “Technologies and scientific foundations in the field of creativity”

Mathematical Creativity Squared

Oct 30 – Nov 2, 2013Athens, Greece (hosted by CTI)

Kick-off meeting

Christian Mercat UCBL, Valérie Émin, UCBL (IFÉ – ÉNS-Lyon)

CoI – CoP Examples, prior approaches

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Teachers, PhD students, software & paper editors

• IREM group• MMI - ÉNS-Lyon math PhD students• Aristod - Jean-François Nicaud• Pôle Édition – Gilles Cohen

Lyon Community of Interest

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IREM Group

A group of 10 secondary math teachers and an academic, focused on open problems and complex tasks

A Lightweight Configurable Signal AnalysisToolset for Multiple Applications

Christoph Lauer, Norbert ReithingerGerman Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH

Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany

{clauer,bert}@dfki.de

ABSTRACT

In this paper we describe a lightweight and highlyconfigurable toolset for the analysis of sound files. Whilethere exist numerous solutions we needed a system that ismodular, expandable, that runs on various platforms andoperating systems, and that can be embedded in otherprograms. Using Java and its rich library of signalhandling and data visualization components,SONOGRAM provides us with the flexibility needed forvarious projects in the area of data annotation,visualization, and multi-modal interface implementation.Currently, seven signal analysis and visualizationalgorithms are implemented. Adding new algorithms isstraightforward, and advanced visualizations like three-dimensional perspectograms can be quickly implemented.

1. INTRODUCTION

For various applications and settings, it is favorable tohave a visualization of the speech signal at hand. There arevarious free and commercial systems available thatprovide elaborate analyzing capabilities . In our year –longresearch in intelligent user-interfaces, however, weespecially felt the need for a visualization tool thatprovides the following features to view various aspects ofa speech signal

• Easy integration in various applications onvarious platforms

• Rich visualization options for the speech signal• Easy extensibility to add new analysis modules

The current available speech analyze toolsets like Praatfrom the University of Amsterdam [1] or SpeechStationfrom Sensimetrics ( http://www.sens.com/ ) lack the plug-inability for environments like dialogue systems orannotations programs, or they are limited to a certainplatform.

In this paper we present SONOGRAM, a Java applicationthat fulfils our needs. Initially it was incorporated inmultimedia annotation tools like ANVIL [4] or the NITE( http://nite.nis.sdu.dk/ ) NXT workbench. Furtherapplications are in multimodal dialogues systems likeSmartKom ( http://www.smartkom.org /) or Miamm( http://www.miamm.org/ )

Figure 1: The SONOGRAM visible speech mainwindow

2. THE ARCHITECTURE

In figure 2, the general architecture of SONOGRAM isshown. The central control module gets input either froma file interface or through the plug-in interface from theembedding program. Since SONOGRAM is written inJava it is able to process all media types that areaccessible through the Java media framework.

Need: a tool to integrate all these discussions and ideasNeed: a tool to integrate all these discussions and ideas

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MMI – ÉNS-Lyon PhD students

House of Mathematics & Computer Science (MMI)

Need: conception of math exhibition objectsNeed: conception of math exhibition objects

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epsilonwriterby Jean-François Nicaud

& Christophe ViudezAlgebraic

direct manipulation, edition and sharing software.

Aristod

Need: user’s feedback and misconception designNeed: user’s feedback and misconception design

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Gilles CohenEdition of journals and books linked to

mathematics, for students, teachers and the general audience.

Pôle Éditions

Need: platform for rich math documents edition, especially exerciserNeed: platform for rich math documents edition, especially exerciser

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How to describe and characterize - a CoI ? Different people & (non unique) roles- a CoP ?Its work, its context, its common interests ?

CoI – CoP Model of description

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How to describe and characterize the work of a CoI :

A common description model of - Resources and boundary objects- Interactions inside and between- CoPs

CoI – CoP Model of description