
Ioannis Arapakis from Telefonica Research said : “We are looking at a unique setting, where human and machine intelligence collaborate via cross-modal communication, towards a common goal and, over time, evolve together, improve, and learn from each other”. SYMBIOTIK proposes a novel framework where both the human and the machine cooperate towards a common goal and evolve together. 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). 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. 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. This is the first EIC Pathfinder grant that is coordinated by the University of Luxembourg. A team of researchers from the University of Luxembourg, AEGIS IT Research GmbH (Germany), Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), and Telefónica I+D (Spain) has received an EIC Pathfinder Challenge grant of 4 million euros for their research in AI-driven data visualisation systems.
