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LIA – Advanced Interaction Laboratory (in Portuguese: Laboratório de Interação Avançada) was founded in 2003 as a
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research lab in the Department of
Computer Science at UFSCar –
Federal University of São Carlos
The Federal University of São Carlos ( pt, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar) is a public research university located in São Carlos, state of São Paulo, Brazil.
History
On December 13, 1960, a federal statute determined the creat ...
. LIA's mission is to research innovative Information and
Communication Technologies
Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals) and computers, ...
(ICTs) approaches for designing, developing and using ICT aiming contributing to overcome the challenges faced in the adoption of ICT considering
social,
professional,
economical,
political and
cultural
Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human Society, societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, Social norm, customs, capabilities, and habits of the ...
context of use.
One of LIA's main project is the
Open Mind Common Sense
Open Mind Common Sense (OMCS) is an artificial intelligence project based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab whose goal is to build and utilize a large commonsense knowledge base from the contributions of many thousands ...
in
Brazil (OMCS-Br). The project started in 2005 in a partnership with
Media Lab from
MIT. It is an approach for developing culture-sensitive interactive systems, which relies on using a common sense knowledge for developing such kind of systems. That is because individuals communicate with each other by assigning meaning to their messages based on their prior beliefs,
attitudes, and values, i.e. based on their
common sense. Previous researches developed at the Lab have shown that common sense expresses cultural knowledge. So, providing this kind of knowledge for computers is a way of allowing the development of culture-sensitive
computer applicationsbr>
(Anacleto et al., 2006)
Main research areas:
* Natural Interactions
*
Culture
* Context Awareness
*
Social Networking
A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for an ...
*
Education
* Sensitive Design
* Common Sense Reasoning
*
Games
A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. Many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or games) or art (such ...
* Emotions
LIA researchers objectives are on research and development of new concepts and
methodologies focused on multidisciplinary issues and the creation of
open source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
tools geared to the promotion, development and sharing of knowledge through the adoption of ICTs.
Human–computer interaction