We report about a WOZ experiment with a carefully designed scenario that allows to investigate how users interact with a companion system in a mundane situation with the need for planning, re-planning and strategy change. The data collection from the experiments comprises multimodal records (audio, video, biopsychological parameters) and transcripts of the verbal interaction, and all subjects fill out a battery of well established psychometric questionnaires about various aspects especially of their personality. This will allow to correlate observed behaviour and detected affects and emotions with measured aspects of the personality of subjects and is expected to serve as a basis for defining a typology of users. In addition, a subgroup of the subjects takes part in semiformal in-depth interviews that focus on retrospective reflexion of the users' subjective experience during the experiments and especially on the intentionality that users ascribed to the system during the course of interaction.
Wizard of Oz (WOZ) systems and WOZ experiments are an important tool for basic and applied research in HCI. We report about using SEMAINE as a flexible component based middleware with a loose coupling of components as software infrastructure for WOZ experiments in human companion interaction. We focus on our experimental WOZ designs, their realisation within the SEMAINE framework and lessons learned from deploying the implemented solutions as the basis for ongoing controlled experiments with 120 subjects.
The understanding of the molecular mechanism of cell-to-cell communication is fundamental for system biology. Up to now, the main objectives of bioinformatics have been reconstruction, modeling and analysis of metabolic, regulatory and signaling processes, based on data generated from high-throughput technologies. Cell-to-cell communication or quorum sensing (QS), the use of small molecule signals to coordinate complex patterns of behavior in bacteria, has been the focus of many reports over the past decade. Based on the quorum sensing process of the organism Aliivibrio salmonicida, we aim at developing a functional Petri net, which will allow modeling and simulating cell-to-cell communication processes. Using a new editor-controlled information system called VANESA (http://vanesa.sf.net), we present how to combine different fields of studies such as life-science, database consulting, modeling, visualization and simulation for a semi-automatic reconstruction of the complex signaling quorum sensing network. We show how cell-to-cell communication processes and information-flow within a cell and across cell colonies can be modeled using VANESA and how those models can be simulated with Petri net network structures in a sophisticated way. is one of the main tasks in integrative bioinformatics. To trim down data to a manageable yet relevant size and to analyze and identify new as well as altered versions of interaction patterns we have implemented a new editor-controlled information system called VANESA (http://vanesa.sf.net).VANESA provides new bioinformatics methods and visualization approaches to analyze dynamic interacting networks. The idea of VANESA is to extend any molecular data based network by new targets and interacting elements. Using VANESA we aim at developing sophisticated network structures for the modeling and simulation of coordinated cell actions based on the quorum sensing system of the bacteria Aliivibrio salmonicida.Coordinated cell actions and basic cellular activities are controlled by cell signaling and communication processes. The study of individual parts of cell signaling pathways has become a major objective in bioinformatics. Bacterial cells are able to adapt their behavior to the environment and its conditions [Schauder et al., 2001]. In biology and medicine, investigating how cells perceive and respond to their microenvironment adapting processes such as development, growth, tissue repair, virulence production and other complex actions can lead to a better understanding of molecular interactions and the causes of diseases [Visick et al., 2005].It is necessary to understand the gene-controlled cell differentiation processes to be able to modify the metabolic behavior, which will be the elementary operation of synthetic biology. Until now methods of biotechnology could not control the cell differentiation process, which is based on fundamental gene regulation events. One aspect related to cell differentiation is cell-to-cell communication. Although cell-to-cell communication is not string...
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