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In human conversation information is communicated not only by speech but also by non-verbal signals such as facial gestures and body movements. Also computer-animated talking heads, or human avatars, benefit from an ability to use non-verbal signals, provided they are performed in a natural, realistic manner. In a new thesis from IDA Sonia Sangari reports an in-depth investigation of the correlation between head movements and focus assignment in speech.
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The Most Influential Paper Honorable Mention at the 2011 IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference has been given to the work by Pär Carlshamre, Kristian Sandahl and Mikael Lindvall at IDA together with two researchers from Lund University, Björn Regnell and Johan Natt och Dag. The paper, "An Industrial Survey of Requirements Interdependencies in Software Product Release Planning" was originally presented at the 5th IEEE Int. Symposium on Requirements Engineering 2001.
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Daniel Eriksson, a LiU graduate from the Systems Science (SVP) program received the prestigious prize "Making a Difference" at a user conference organised by the company ESRI with 16000 participants at San Diego, California. Motivation for the prize was the Geographic Information System (GIS) based tool that Daniel's group has developed to collect and analyse information about land mines, cluster weapons, and other explosive remnants of war.
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