Overview

Welcome to the homepage of Text 2.0. On this site we want to give you a brief introduction on the ideas and principles of our work. We invite you to look around and leave a comment, if you like.

If you come here for the first time you may wonder: what is Text 2.0 all about? We would like to answer this question by yet another question which we would like you to think about for a moment:

Virtually all content you find on this site is addressed to this sole question. To further explore it we recommend that you start with the media we have prepared. After that, have a look at the documentation. In case you have any further questions you might want to visit the FAQ and our contact page.

Während die meisten Inhalte dieser Seite in Englisch verfasst sind, stehen im Dokumentationsbereich auch zwei Veröffentlichungen in deutscher Sprache zur Auswahl. Diese enthalten zum Teil noch mehr Informationen als auf der Webseite momentan verfügbar sind. Insbesondere empfehlen wir die Lektüre des Dokuments Text 2.0 - Wie blickaktiver Text Lesen verändern kann. Darüber hinaus lohnt sich auch ein Blick in den Multimedia-Bereich.

News / Upcoming Events

Here is a short list with news and all the upcoming events where you can try out Text 2.0 yourself.

Playing with Text 2.0 (5. February 2010)

Okay, we're perfectly aware that it is marketing, but this one is so cute we just have to mention it: TrendONE, a company dedicated to trend research sent us a Top Trumps-style card game that, instead of using fast cars and planes, is based on trends and technologies. Well, and as you can see on the left, Text 2.0 also made it into the game!

Each trend is put into one category, Print Plus in our case, and has values for four different attributes: trendfactor (we got five stars), Google hits (6,110 in the game, right now we have 61,200), investment potential (four stars), and avg. temperature at company's home (10.5°C, excluding this winter I suppose).

In a quick test game Text 2.0 won against videos in print (trendfactor), drew level with foursquare (investment potential) and lost against something called local realtime networks (average temperature).

Not too bad if you ask me, especially considering that it is the first of our projects that made it into a card game.

Going CeBIT. Going CHI. Going IUI. (3. February 2010)

First of all, yes, Text 2.0 will be presented at this year's CeBIT (Hannover, Germany). You can find us at the DFKI booth, which is located in Hall 9 / B45. Like on the book fair, you will be able to experience interactive multimedia books and dynamic reading assistances on-the-fly. However, because we never sleep and mostly live on energy drinks and candy bars, there might be a chance that one or two little extras will bubble up our magic cauldron by then. Stay tuned.

In case you don't manage to visit the CeBIT this year you'll get another chance to talk to us: Atlanta, USA. While we won't have any eye tracking equipment with us when going there, we'll bring you two papers which we're going to present at CHI's poster session: The first one is called Eye Tracking Analysis of Preferred Reading Regions on the Screen, the title of the second one is Text 2.0.

And there's even a third chance to talk to us: Hong Kong, this weekend (7. Feburary 2010). The workshop paper we mentioned in the last post (The Text 2.0 Framework) will be presented at IUI's 2010 Gaze Workshop.

Gaining Momentum (6. January 2010)

We’re happy to report that, as a result of our last call for participation, we got a number of requests from domestic as well as foreign students. While some applications are still underway we are hoping to see the first of them (the students, not the applications) arrive within the next few weeks, very nice!

This does not mean, however, that we are out of topics. While some have gotten multiple requests already, we’re constantly adding new ones as well. And even if you’re an iPhone developer, we might have something in there for you.

In the meantime we also got visits from two radio stations (1LIVE and eldoradio*) and a few new references. Furthermore we’re happy to announce that a Text 2.0 Framework paper written for the IUI 2010 Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction has been accepted right before Christmas, but more on that later. Happy New Year everyone!

We want YOU to work with us!

This is a chance you won't get again that soon. If you are a student in the fields of computer science, digital design, HCI or anything else that involves either strong research, programming or user interface skills, we give you the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to

• work at one of the world's leading institutes of innovative software technology and artificial intelligence
• put your hands on expensive technology you surely don't have at home yet
• shape the future of interactive reading and its research according to your own imagination
• write your bachelor's or master's thesis or do an internship
• work like hell and still have fun ;-)

If you are interested, write us a mail, either in German, or English. We don't bite, and the only thing you have to lose is a little time. By the way, this call is valid world-wide, so, what are you waiting for?

Wir haben hier einige Beispiele für offene Bachelor-, Master-, Diplom-, Projektarbeiten, Praktika (usw.) ausgestellt. Vielleicht findest Du ja etwas, das Dich auf Anhieb anspricht.

Home, Sweet Home (20. October 2009)

The book fair is over and it was a huge success. We like to thank everyone who visited our booth! Within the next days we will present a short summary and update our "In the News" section with all the reports we are aware of.

Additionally, due to the great demand, here is a link with images of our external eye tracking device, a Tobii x120. If possible, please give credit to the DFKI when using them.

Frankfurt Book Fair (14. - 18. October 2009)

Visit us at the world's largest book fair and try Text 2.0 on your own! We will be located in building 4.2, booth K441.

The presented prototypes are the eyeReader (with multimedia texts of Dracula and The Little Prince) as well as our brand new ATengine which we used to transform the beginning of The Origin of Species into an illustration of our vision of the evolution of reading.

The scheduled features are so far:

• multimedia effects
• translations on the fly
• intelligent footnotes
• automatic bookmarks
• speech input and output (i.e., speak to your text)

German Unity Day (2. - 3. October 2009)

We will be participating at the festivities of the Germany Unity Day which will be held in Saarbrücken this year.

Our booth will be located between the Schloss Saarbrücken and the Landtag des Saarlandes. It is part of the presentation of the state Rheinland Pfalz.

The main demonstration of that day will be the project eyeReader.

However, Friday evening there will also be a sneak preview of the upcoming demo scenario that will be presented at the book fair.