MENHIR coorganises the CRYSTAL workshop within the PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference (5th to 7th July 2023). CRYSTAL focuses on how best design and develop support for elder people when they age, and also provide assistance for people who suffer from mild mental diseases, such as depression, which also appears in old …

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The special session “Dynamics of Signal Exchanges and Empathic Systems”, coorganized by MENHIR in the 30th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks WIRN 2023, has taken place from 7th to 9th June 2023 in Vietri sul Mare (Italy). Congratulations!! The themes of this special session are multidisciplinary in nature, and closely connected in their final aims …

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The Cancer Survivorship – AI for Well-being cluster (#CS_AIW) brings together 11 EU-funded projects working inArtificial Intelligence (AI) for healthcare and in the well-being primarily in post-cancer treatment space with acollective aim to cross-fertilize and transcend individual project experiences for the wider good and outcome oftheir individual projects. The cluster as formulation in October 2020. …

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Another PhD obtained by a young researcher in our MENHIR team!! 🎓🎉 Asier López has passed his PhD viva, with a Thesis entitled: “Towards structured neural spoken dialogue modelling.” Congratulations to Asier and her supervisor Prof. María Inés Torres from the University of the Basque Country!

Another PhD obtained by a young researcher in our MENHIR team!! 🎓🎉 Matthias Kraus has passed his PhD viva, with a Thesis entitled: “User-centred Proactive Dialogue Modelling for Trustworthy Conversational Assistants.”, which has been developed in international co-tutelle between Ulm University (Germany) and University of Granada (Spain), two partners of the MENHIR consortium. There is …

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MENHIR co-organized Special Session on Social and Biometric data for Applications in human machine interactions: Models and algorithms (SOBIOAPPS) has been held from 12th to 15th September in Calabria (Italy) in conjunction with the 7th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2022) – http://cyber-science.org/2022/cyberscitech/ Congratulations to the organising team!

The special session “Dynamics of Signal Exchanges and Empathic Systems”, coorganized by MENHIR in the 30th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks WIRN 2023, has taken place from 7th to 9th September 2022 in Vietri sul Mare (Italy). Congratulations!! The themes of this special session are multidisciplinary in nature, and closely connected in their final aims …

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Massive thanks to all the participants of the Internacional Doctoral Summer School in Conversational Systems for Health Applications that has taken place in Granada (Spain) from 31st August to 3rd September 2022. It has been a wonderful experience! More information about the school: https://menhir-project.eu/index.php/2022-menhir-doctoral-school/

CUI 2022 has been held in Glasgow, UK, from 26–28th July 2022. There has been an increasing interest in language-based interactions with technology. Driven by the commercial success of intelligent personal assistant devices such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, the number of natural language and conversation-based interactions is growing in commercial settings. Following the …

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The 1st International Workshop on “Trustworthy AI for the Future of Risk Management” (TAI-RM2022) has been held on 14th June, 2022 at Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, bringing together academic researchers, industry practitioners, regulators and stakeholders to share their latest results, gather new problems, explore the deep understanding of trustworthy AI, understand the implications of trustworthy …

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