Thuban: Natural Interaction Platform for Virtual Attending in Real Environments

The “Thuban” project is focused to develop a virtual attendant which interacts with the user and takes into account his position in the environment. This feature provides access to services such as: services relative to the position and trajectory (for example, notice), oriented services to manage these parameters (for example, tracking and guiding to fixed and moving objects) or the description of the situation and/or trajectory and in general, every available service in the system. The Spatio-Temporal database will be the technology used to handle the user tracking and guiding. This kind of database should be able to generate and manage spatio-temporal events. On the other hand, the system interaction must be oriented to imitate the human interaction (Natural Interaction) providing support to any sort of user. The Spatio-Temporal database and Interaction System integration are the fundamental basis for achieving the interaction platform. Therefore, Virtual Attendants development is feasible for different environments and applications, which will strengthen the Information Societies for all.