FAME

Facilitating Agents for Multi-Cultural Exchange

The vision of the FAME project was to construct and intelligent agent to facilitate communication among people from different cultures who collaborate on solving a common problem. The FAME agent serves as an information butler by supporting multimodal interaction in a transparent way. He does not intervene in the conversation, but remains in the background to provide appropriate support.

FAME provided three services:

• Facilitate human to human communication through multimodal interaction including vision, speech and object manipulation
• Provide the appropriate information relevant to the context
• Make possible the production and manipulation of information blending both electronic and physical representations.
   

Partners

Seven partners from four countries in Europe collaborate in the FAME consortium:

• INP Grenoble
• ITC-irst
• SONY
• ATLAS
• UPC (Universitat Politècnica de catalunya) 
• Université Joseph Fourier
• Universität Karlsruhe (TH)