Welcome to the new research project “SYMBIOTIK”!

LOURIM Louvain-La-Neuve, Mons

September 21, 2022, marks the official start of the SYMBIOTIK project. This project is an EIC Pathfinder grant and will study AI-driven data visualisation. This project will gather together a team of researchers from the University of Luxembourg, AEGIS IT Research GmbH (Germany), the UCLouvain (Belgium), and Telefónica I+D (Spain), coordinated by the University of Luxembourg. For our university, this project will be supported by Prof. Jean Vanderdonckt and Nicolas Burny, PhD.

 

What is this project about? “We live in an era of information overload that impairs our capacity to make objective decisions, especially in time-sensitive contexts: From emergency rooms and autonomous cars to operational command centres, a clear understanding and rapid assessment must take place based on the available information at our disposal.

 

While the use of data visualisation tools to mitigate this effect has been widely discussed as a possible countermeasure, the potential of these tools has not yet unlocked their true potential to best assist the user in critical decision-making tasks. The SYMBIOTIK project will lay the basis for an interaction dialogue between humans and Information Visualisation (InfoVis) systems to support decision making processes, inspired by known biological principles and guided by artificial intelligence (AI).

 

SYMBIOTIK proposes a novel framework where both the human and the machine cooperate towards a common goal and evolve together. The framework will allow to engineer more sophisticated intelligent systems, making them more resilient and more human-centric. The results of the project will benefit a range of stakeholders, from computer scientists and citizens as well as research funding bodies and policy makers.

 

This project was made possible thanks to an EIC Pathfinder grant, funded by the European Innovation Council and aiming at supporting research teams to research or develop an emerging breakthrough technology.

Source : University of Luxembourg

Published on September 23, 2022