
1. Project Overview
HOUDINI explores how immersive technologies can transform the way visitors experience cultural heritage sites. By combining augmented reality, speech interaction, and artificial intelligence, the project seeks to create engaging experiences that connect users with historical environments in new ways. The platform allows visitors to interact naturally with contextualized digital reconstructions, historical content, and cultural narratives, whether on-site or through remote streaming experiences.
2. VoiceInteraction's Contribution
VoiceInteraction contributes speech interaction and language technology expertise to support the creation of immersive cultural heritage experiences. The project explores new ways for users to interact naturally with digital cultural content through conversational technologies.
3. Key Capabilities
Voice and text intelligence for investigative workflows
Image and video analysis technologies
Federated learning environments
AI-assisted investigation support
Cybercrime and terrorism investigation tools
Public safety and law enforcement applications
4. Outcomes & Impact
HOUDINI demonstrates how speech interaction, augmented reality, and conversational interfaces can enhance cultural heritage experiences. The project creates more engaging and accessible ways for visitors to explore historical and cultural content in physical and digital environments.
5. Partners & Consortium
HOUDINI connects cultural institutions, research organizations, and technology partners to explore new ways of delivering immersive cultural heritage experiences through speech interaction, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence.
Consortium Composition
Cultural Heritage Organizations
Research Institutions
Technology Providers
Innovation Partners
Areas of Expertise
Augmented reality
Speech interaction
Conversational technologies
Cultural heritage preservation
Digital experiences
Tourism innovation
Collaborative Approach
Partners work together to combine historical content, digital technologies, and user experience design into interactive cultural experiences that make heritage sites more accessible and engaging for both local and international audiences.
6. Project Information
Project Code
LISBOA-01-0247-FEDER-069902 and POCI-01-0247-FEDER-069902
Funding Programme
Compete 2020, Lisboa 2020, Portugal 2020, FEDER
Intervention Region
North and Lisbon
Beneficiary Entity
EMBRACEGADGET - LDA., POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF VIANA DO CASTELO, VOICEINTERACTION, CÔA PARQUE
7. Funding Information
Total eligible cost: €641,218.31. Financial support from the European Union: €440,441.49. VoiceInteraction: €145,760.36. Support logos: Compete 2020, Lisboa 2020, Portugal 2020, FEDER.
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