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Famous for her wonderful voice and the power of her recitals, the project acronym is a tribute to Maria Callas, the great singer who changed forever the way opera is performed.
CALLAS (the acronym stands for Conveying Affectiveness in Leading-edge Living Adaptive Systems) is a integrated project funded by the European Commission under FP6. The project was selected for funding among proposals sent in answer to FP6-2005-IST-5 Call , Strategic objective Multimodal Interfaces (2.5.7) and will run from November 2006 to April 2010.In the project vision, ambitious challenges are pursued: partners from different countries are working together in pursuit a common goal that will contribute to reduce the cost and the complexity of development of multimodal interfaces in the Digital Entertainment and Information context.- to produce a set of components (known as Shelf components) which can be used to generate emotionally-aware user interfaces (or Affective Multimodal Interfaces).
- to handle interoperability between the components through the open source CALLAS Framework
- to provide APIs to 3rd party developers through which the shelf components and emotional model might be accessed.
Finally, the capabilities of the CALLAS Framework will be demonstrated through the development of CALLAS Showcases, significant test-beds in the context of New Media, embryonic samples of applications of the future.
