Case study: Conditional Video Recorder
A few years ago, after we had developed a Conditional Voice Recorder for a research group from the joint research center “Media of Cooperation” at the University of Siegen, we are currently working together with a research group at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) on a conditional video recorder.
What exactly is the project about?
The European University needs a video recorder for a research project of the Emmy Noether Group of linguist Dr. Miriam Lind to record the communication of test persons in their households.
For this purpose, the households are equipped with devices that automatically make video and audio recordings when people communicate in their vicinity.
The research project on post-humanistic communication deals with communicative practices between humans, animals and machines. It investigates how people talk to their cats or dogs and what is behind machines that help animals to communicate.
We want to support the research with modern technology. To this end, it is important to reliably perceive and evaluate communication from and with pets and machines.
The development of the devices takes place at our company. Our team, which was already responsible for the development of the conditional voice recorder, is looking forward to building on the previous project and developing the concepts further.
The reliable recognition of speech and animal noises using machine learning algorithms and the reliable differentiation of disturbing background noises are particularly exciting.
With this project, we are of course working in a sensitive domestic environment and data protection is a top priority.
This means that the test subjects must of course be able to decide for themselves which communication may actually be evaluated and which may not.
To this end, the devices are also equipped with a display and a corresponding user interface to enable the test subjects to play back the recordings and delete individual recordings.
All recordings are of course only stored locally on the device so that no communication with other devices takes place.
If you would like to find out more about the research project, you can find more detailed information here:
We have already set to work and are looking forward to the research results!