01 Apr 2022
I am happy to share that I am starting a new position as postdoctoral researcher
with Assoc. Prof. Ben Cowan
in the HCI@UCD group at the School of Information and Communication Studies
of University College Dublin.
The position is affiliated with the ADAPT Centre.
ADAPT’s research vision is to pioneer new forms of proactive, scalable, and integrated AI-driven Digital Media Technology
that empower individuals and society to engage in digital experiences with control, inclusion, and accountability
with the long-term goal of a balanced digital society.
23 Feb 2022
The proceedings of our conference about human perspectives on spoken human-machine interaction (HMI) are now available
online.
📖 #openaccess 🔓
The papers presented at SpoHuMa21 explore spoken HMI from various angles.
The contributions by Ibrahim & Skantze and Sinha & Siegert examine how human speech in HMI changes depending
on the addressee and what challenges are involved in understanding its variability. Allen and Leisten
& Rieser investigate another aspect of human speech, namely gender-based perception and behavior
differences, and how these may influence the attitude towards speaking devices. Various medical applications
that leverage spoken HMI are presented by Collins, Bevacqua, De Loor, & Querrec, Attas, Kellett,
Blackmore, & Christensen, and Pevy, Christensen, Walker, & Reuber. These include seizure
narration, emotion dimensions of speakers with anxiety disorders, and virtual medical assistance. Finally,
Honkalammi, Veivo, & Johansson and Chen, Liesenfeld, Li, & Yao deal with cooperative
aspects of spoken HMI, such as advice giving in learning processes and the effect of computer disfluency on
memory recall.
Many thanks to the authors for their contributions and, of course, to FRIAS (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies) for having us!
21 Jan 2022
My dissertation Phonetic Accommodation of Human Interlocutors in the Context of Human-Computer Interaction is now published
and available online. 📖 #openaccess 🔓
09 Dec 2021
I am happy to announce that I defended my dissertation today — 6 months to the day after its submission!
It was a great opportunity to celebrate the work I’ve done over the past few years with family, friends, and colleagues.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to everyone who has accompanied me on this journey! 🙏
18 Nov 2021
I had the pleasure of organizing the FRIAS Junior Researcher Conference - Human Perspectives on Spoken Human-Machine Interaction (SpoHuMa21)
together with Sarah Warchhold (University of Freiburg), Daniel Duran (ZAS Berlin), and Eran Raveh (Hyro AI).
The conference was supported by the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) – special thanks to Kyra Vogt and Attilio Ferrarese!
SpoHuMa21 featured submitted talks by young researchers, invited talks by Michelle Cohn (University of California, Davis, USA), Friederike Eyssel (Bielefeld University, Germany), Roger K. Moore (University of Sheffield, UK), Catharine Oertel (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), and Karola Pitsch (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), as well as various interactive discussion sessions.
We had a great time discussing spoken human-machine interaction from many different angles! 🗣 🤖
The organizers of SpoHuMa 2021 in the FRIAS Gather space