Attentive Displays Ltd is pleased to announce the creation of four divisions within the Company. The Interactive and Attentive Advertising division will be headed by Mr Boris Menkov. The Retail and Advertising Analytics division will be headed by Mr Alexander Gerganov. The Attentive DisplaySoftware division and the Interactive Digital Signage division will be headed by Dr Stavri Nikolov.
6 October 2008
Dr Stavri Nikolov of Attentive Displays Ltd, UK, will give an invited talk at the Retail in Detail Conference in Sofia on 11 November 2008. The title of his presentation is "Attentive and interactive advertising: Watching you watching me, changing you changing me". The lecture will present a review of interactive and attentive advertising systems developed and deployed in recent years around the world.
5 October 2008
Some initial results and findings from the "Digital Maps for Public Displays" research project, a collaboration between the BS8 Human Factors Group at the University of Bristol, UK, and Attentive Displays Ltd, shall be presented at the Skövde Workshop on Information Fusion Topics (SWIFT 2008), Skövde, Sweden, 4-6 November, 2008.
1 October 2008
Mr Alexander Gerganov has joined Attentive Displays' team. He will be in charge of retail analytics studies and applications using various smart sensors.
12 August 2008
Attentive Displays Ltd, Bulgaria, has become a reseller of Irisys' People Counting solutions for Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Turkey.
16 June 2008
Attentive Displays has announced the launch of its first two interactive software products – aCatalogue (Attentive Catalogue) and aMovies (Attentive Movies). The two easily configurable interactive multimedia catalogues could be used with various display technology, including but not limited to touch screen, gesture-driven, motion-driven, and attention-driven displays. The aCatalogue software is suitable for public displays in hotels, restaurants, shopping malls, and on shop windows, while aMovies is aimed at clients such as cinemas, galleries, museums, film festivals and shopping centres. Attentive Displays has also started selling customised solutions using aCatalogue and aMovies to select clients around the world. More information about aCatalogue and aMovies can be found in our Products section.
9 June 2008
Dr Jian Li and Mr Vladin Mitov have joined Attentive Displays’ team of consultants. Dr Li acts as technology consultant to Attentive Displays Ltd in the area of real-time motion estimation, while Mr Mitov helps the company develop new interactive interfaces.
4 May 2008
Attentive Displays Ltd announced today the launch of its first Advertising Attentive Display as ordeded by Reforma Advertising Agency. The Advertising Attentive Display takes the art of advertising to another level by offering full gesture-driven (in the current implementation) and body-driven interactive experience to the viewer. The system is the first of its kind in Bulgaria and was developed specifically for the advertising campaign for Hyavita (a new beauty product from Actavis which contains hyaluronic acid and vitamin E and facilitates smoothing wrinkles out). The advertising concept was developed by Reforma Advertising Agency. The system generated tremendous interest among the shoppers and visitors, frequently leading to queues in front of the display. The system can be seen in the atrium of Mall of Sofia until the end of May, 2008. Photographs and a video of the system in action can be found here.
25 December 2007
Attentive Displays Ltd, Bulgaria, and HiLab (hilab.nbu.bg), New Bulgarian University, will collaborate to study how split screen displays affect eye movements.
20 December 2007
Attentive Displays Ltd has become one of the main supporters of the Scanpaths.org project. The Online Archive of Scanpath Data ( Scanpaths.org) is hosted by the Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), USA. Its mission is to provide the research community with a central online repository of scanpath (eye-movement) data gathered by different laboratories and companies around the world in various experiments and applications. Eight new eye-movement data sets, contributed by Prof Mike Land of Sussex University, UK, have been added to Scanpaths.org in December 2007, with the financial support of euCognition (The European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems). These data sets include scanpaths of people making tea, driving a car, playing cricket, drawing a portrait, playing jigsaw puzzle, attending a party, and playing table tennis. A detailed report describing Scanpaths.org and all available data sets could be found on the euCognition web site
