AMI Projects
  • Interactive systems - Christmas Castle
    The Municipality of Heraklion invited ICS-FORTH to participate in the “Christmas Castle” celebrations for a second year in a row; in fact, ICS-FORTH was alloted a bigger section of the overall facilities than the year before. As a result, AmI systems were housed in six locations, offering visitors a chance to travel in the magical world of Christmas through innovative interactive applications.
  • Aether
    Aether is an interactive system that allows the creation of a continuous flow of an unlimited number of images through any number of computers connected through the Internet.
  • Interactive systems - Creative Crete
    A unique installation of pioneering interactive technologies located at Crete’s main entry points – the international airports and the seaports of Heraklion and Chania. “Creative Crete” was realized by the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas under the initiative of the Region of Crete.
  • Ambient Intelligence for e-Health
    Ambient Intelligence for e-Health (AmI-Health) is defined as the merging of ubiquitous computing, “social user interfaces and eHealth services for providing a flexible, dynamic, intelligent technological infrastructure for ubiquitous management of health’s status.
  • Interactive systems - Diachronic Museum of Larissa
    The Diachronic Museum of Larissa in collaboration with ICS-FORTH has installed at the entrance hall of the Museum an Interactive Map, which presents information, photos and videos for points of archaeological and historical interest in the city of Larissa.
  • AmI CMS
    AMI CMS is a web platform that manages Ambient Intelligence applications, enabling users to administer multimedia scenarios and installations
  • Interactive systems - Heraklion Archaeological Museum
    Seven (7) interactive exhibits are scattered within the Museum and occupy physical spaces where digital technology is used to “accompany” and “explain” physical exhibits and antiquities. The installation of interactive exhibits in the premises of the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion covers the most important thematic categories of the Museum.
  • Ami Entrance with Password Identification
    This is a system that welcomes users at the entrance of a building and requests their identification number in order to provide access in the building via voice recognition and speaker identity verification.
  • AmI Playfield
    AmI Playfield is an Ambient Intelligent (AmI) environment for learning which offers an innovative approach, emphasizing the use of relatively low-cost kinesthetic and collaborative technology in a natural playful learning context, while also embodying performance measurement techniques.
  • AmIDriver
    A novel interactive system that incorporates different technologies aiming to allow users participate in an immersive driving experience in virtual environments
  • AR AmI Explorer
    The system offers interactive simulation of physical spaces in Augmented Reality (AR) environments.
  • Interactive systems - Municipal Market of Chania
    One of Chania city center attractions, the Municipal Market, hosts the interactive system Panoptes created by the Institute of Computer Science in collaboration with the Municipality of Chania.
  • Art Games
    A collection of ambient games for playing with art
  • Interactive systems - National Historical Museum
    The Institute of Computer Science of FORTH was invited to participate in the great anniversary exhibition for the Revolution of 1821 entitled REVOLUTION ’21 REFRAMED, organized by the National Historical Museum in the Old Parliament House as part of the celebration of 200 years since the beginning of the Greek Revolution.
  • Augmented School Desk
    The Augmented School Desk is a smart artifact which integrates AmI technologies in the classroom learning process
  • Be There NOW!
    Be There NOW! is an interactive system that allows the exploration of different images, in which users are immersed as if they were there.
  • Beantable
    Beantable is an augmented interactive table supporting young children’s development through the monitored use of smart games
  • Interactive systems - Pireaus Bank Group Cultural Foundation
    The Institute of Computer Science of FORTH in collaboration with the Pireaus Bank Group Cultural Foundation (PIOP) has installed Wall Touch in the facilities of PIOP in Plaka. The system allows visitors of all ages to extract information about the PIOP Museum Network in a pleasant and interactive way.
  • BEHOLDER
    An interactive art installation that aims to evoke emotion through the combination of digital projection, motorized motion and motion sensing.
  • booTable
    A piece of interactive smart furniture for the living room, that builds upon the paradigm of surface computing.
  • Interactive systems - Techn-e-ology
    Techn-e-ology, the pioneering exhibition intertwining art and cutting-edge technology introduced for the first time in the 2017 “Art en Route” Pancretan Street Festival by the Ambient Intelligence Programme of the Institute of Computer Science of FORTH (ICS-FORTH) returns in 2018 with a novel installation of interactive systems.
  • CaLmi
    A system that allows the ubiquitous presentation of relaxation programs in Intelligent Environments to manage the stress level of individuals
  • Interactive systems - Teloglion Foundation of Art A.U.Th.
    Two (2) interactive systems have been provided by ICS-FORTH and are located in the lobby of the Teloglion Foundation of Art – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Moreover, the Foundation provides a mobile application that guides users to its collection.
  • ClassMATE
    The ClassMATE framework enables context aware education in the classroom
  • CocinAR
    CocinAR is an Augmented Reality system, utilizing tangible objects and supporting card-based interaction, for teaching cooking skills to children through a playful approach.
  • CognitOS
    CognitOS is a configurable, web-based, window manager that transforms the attention-aware classroom into a unified environment.
  • Interactive systems - Zappeion School for Girls
    wo interactive systems have been installed in the Zappeion School for Girls (Ozel Zapyon Rum Kiz Lisesi) and implemented by the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), to assist with Greek language courses.
  • Interactive Wall
    The Interactive Wall supports games that can be played by one, two or more players simultaneously, using their entire body, in a space of about 3 x 3 m comprising a large projection area.
  • Coin-O-Rama
    An interactive system designed to explore the coins or other round objects included in related physical exhibitions
  • Jigsaw Puzzle
    Jigsaw Puzzle offers all the typical functionality of jigsaw puzzles along with a lot more. Jigsaw Puzzle can be played using a multitouch screen or the mouse, but also supports switches in combination with scanning techniques for people with hand-motor impairments.
  • CopyCut
    CopyCut is an interactive exhibit that supports artistic creation through a very simple, easy to learn and engage, interaction approach that yields highly impressive and expressive results.
  • Cryptolexo
    A hidden crossword game loved by all ages, which combines entertainment with knowledge.
  • Macrographia
    A system that presents very large images, which visitors can explore by walking around in a room.
  • Debugger
    A fun game played using real flyswatters
  • MagiPlay
    Augmented Reality platforms employed on handheld devices, allowing users to program Intelligent Environments, by creating trigger-action rules about the behaviors of smart artifacts using 3D blocks.
  • Media Gallery
    Media Gallery is a system that allows browsing and exploring large collections of multimedia information (images and videos) using touchless remote interaction, by employing computer vision technologies.
  • FAmINE
    Communication middleware layer for Ambient Intelligence Environments
  • FAmINE4Android
    FAmINE4Android middleware library contributes to the interconnection of distributed services within AmI environments.
  • Mosaic
    This system integrates a large interactive touch display in which a collection of double sided cards is displayed.
  • Flash projector stitching
    A generic software component and support tool for developing applications that support multi-projector stitching
  • Museum Guide
    This system aims to guide the visitor through a museum via an interactive map.
  • Home Game
    Home Game is an interactive educational game, supporting touch and card-based interaction, that aims to familiarize children with household objects, as well as the overall home environment daily activities.
  • Panoptes
    A digital exhibition-catalogue system which allows visitors to browse its content and dwell on details of images, read accompanying texts and follow threads of information.
  • HypnOS
    A system that monitors sleep unobtrusively and provides personalized sleep recommendations to the residents of an Intelligent Home to improve their sleep quality and therefore their overall well-being.
  • PaperView
    Augmenting Physical Surfaces with Location-Aware Digital Information
  • iEat: An interactive restaurant table
    iEat is an innovative smart restaurant table that aims at enhancing restaurant customers’ experience in terms of entertainment, socialization, food selection and ordering, providing the users with natural interaction with the table itself, as well as with physical objects placed upon its surface.
  • ParlAmI
    ParlAmI is a conversational framework featuring a multimodal chatbot that permits users to create simple “if-then” rules to define the behavior of an intelligent environment.
  • Info Kiosk
    Info kiosk provides information within categories in the form of augmented digital book, enriched with additional features.
  • Peridexio
    A system that offers museum visitors the possibility of exploring an object and/or a subject in depth
  • Infocloud
    Infocloud comprises a collection of keywords, images and video thumbnails displayed on a very large touch screen.
  • Polyapto
    A very large interactive screen that can be used by several visitors who wish to explore multifaceted information on a subject at the same time.
  • Infoscope
    An innovative wireless e-guide device also supporting exploratory gaming in physical environments.
  • PUPIL
    The PUPIL framework facilitates the design, development and deployment of pervasive educational applications
  • Intelligent Classroom
    A student-oriented and educator-friendly “Intelligent Classroom”, that aims to support students in their journey to acquiring knowledge.
  • SESIL
    SESIL enhances physical books with context-related additional digital content
  • Intelligent Greenhouse
    The Intelligent Greenhouse makes use of state-of-the-art technologies, so as to cover the entire spectrum of production and streamline the synergy and interaction among people and smart environments in the domain of Agri-food.
  • Smart Exhibit Showcase
    A system that digitally augments physical artifacts/objects of various sizes, allowing users to interact through midair gestures in order to get additional information
  • Intelligent Hotel Room
    This work presents an innovative application of ambient technology in the domain of tourism and leisure that aims to improve the quality of services offered by the hospitality industry.
  • Smart office
    A typical office environment augmented with Ambient Intelligence technologies.
  • Intelligent Living Room
    The residents of a house can use the living room not only as a traditional social and individual space where many activities take place, but also as a smart ecosystem.
  • Stater 360²
    Exploring archaeological artifacts in Stater 360² through physical and multitouch interaction with a double rotating gimbal.
  • Study Buddy
    Study-Buddy is a system aiming to provide seamless, context-aware support to students, by monitoring their interactions with reading material and presenting related information in a nearby screen.
  • Interactive Art Table
    The Art Table is a complete solution based on the Microsoft Surface 2.0 interactive table device that targets the art fruition experience by all citizens within museums and Cultural Heritage Institutions (CHIs). The solution offers a number of facilities aiming at a number of human activities including education, entertainment and information.
  • Study Table
    Study Table is an interactive table aiming to augment physical books
  • Interactive Column
    Interactive Column facilitates instant information by employing the stream metaphor, presenting a stream of information floating.
  • Tablewars
    An augmented reality tabletop game using physics engine to provide realistic interactions among virtual objects and the real world
  • Interactive Documents
    A system that augments printed documents placed upon a surface (e.g., a plain table) with multimedia content and interactive applications. Such content is dynamically displayed in augmentation to the currently open page of the document, and is aligned in real-time with its 2D orientation upon the table surface.
  • Teacher Assistant
    AMI-RIA monitors learners’ activities in the classroom and keeps the teacher informed, facilitating classroom management
  • Interactive Map
    A system that comprises points of interest shown on a map which allows users to extract information in multimedia content and text form with the touch of their fingers.
  • The Artist’s Workshop: The AmI approach to creativity
    The digitally augmented traditional art workshop offers novel means of traditional painting. Within the workshop, the Artist’s activities are facilitated by technology from the conceptual generation of the painting to its composition and implementation.
  • Interactive Multimedia Viewer
    The Interactive Multimedia Viewer enables the presentation and remote management of multimedia content presents in one or more computers at the same time.
  • The Book of Ellie
    The system presents an approach towards augmenting a physical book and enabling interaction through physical cards, with the purpose of providing a playful approach to learning the alphabet
  • Interactive system - Albatros Spa & Resort Hotel
    Albatros Spa & Resort Hotel, a family owned and run Resort Hotel, aiming to provide information about the Hersonissos Municipality in an innovative way for its guests, invited the Institute of Computer Science of FORTH to install the Media Gallery interactive system.
  • Ticket Scanner Kiosk
    Αn information kiosk aiming to provide passengers, who use public transportation such as bus and train, multimedia information about the destinations and intermediate stops of a route
  • Interactive system - e-Branch Piraeus Bank
    ICS-FORTH has collaborated with Piraeus Bank and developed “Navigation Map”, an interactive Ambient Intelligence system which enables e-Branch visitors to explore the products and services offered by the Bank; all relative information, which includes multimedia materials, is presented on a large touch screen.
  • TimeViewer
    A system allowing modeling, storing, visualization and multimodal interaction with timelines
  • Interactive system - Museum of Ancient Eleutherna
    The Exhibition featured Coin-O-Rama, an interactive system developed by the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), which offers visitors blow-up images of the coins on display and additional information about them. The application also enables visitors ‘to make their own coin’.
  • Virtual Fitting Room
    Virtual Fitting Room provides motion-based interaction to the users and suggests various outfits. The system enables users to stand in front of it and see themselves wearing virtual clothes while they are able to naturally interact with the system remotely, using gestures.
  • Interactive system - The Environment Museum of Stymphalia
    ΙCS-FORTH, in collaboration with the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, developed an innovative interactive system, AmIDriver, that offers visitors a unique and immersive user experience to advance the Museum’s aims. The system simulates the process of collecting reeds in Lake Stymphalia, which are then composted and converted into pellets.
  • Interactive systems - Arkadi Monastery
    The Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas has incorporated innovative technologies in the museum of Arkadi Monastery under the initiative of the World Council of Cretans (WCC).
  • Wall Touch
    A large interactive surface that enables users to view multimedia information through touch