MENHIR is non-stop and we continue working during August. We have had several secondments to UVA and GLOBIT involving participants from AMH and UPV/EHU, and also visits to UULM. See the testimonials section for more information!
During July we have had several secondments from senior and early stage researchers from Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli and Universidad de Granada to Action Mental Health. During this period, we could collaborate to define a strategy for the objectives and procedures for emotion analysis and define the first data structures for user and dialogue …
Today Claire Griffin showed colleagues from Action Mental Health, University of Granada and Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli how Invest NI supports Northern Ireland’s participation in H2020. We discussed about MENHIR and its local and EU impact.
Today we have held a co-creation workshop in Action Mental Health Newtonards where we have shared very insightful ideas about how to design conversational technologies for mental health. The idea behind co-creation is not to design technology for its prospective users but with them. This enables people who can benefit from the technology to make …
Yesterday we had the meetings of the General Assembly and Steering Committee in Belfast. We discussed about the managerial issues and also planned the work for the next year. We decided on very important issues related to data management, dissemination and communication, emotion analysis and conversational strategies.
María Inés Torres (UPV) will give a lecture on VoiceBots in the RTTH Summer School 2019 (RTTHSS2019). The school is sponsored by the Spanish Red Temática en Tecnologías del Habla (RTTH) and organized by the Speech and Natural Language Technologies Department of Vicomtech. The RTTHSS2019 will take place in Donostia-San Sebastián (Spain), from July 2nd to July 5th …
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The colleagues from University of Granada (UGR) and Action Mental Health (AMH) have started to work on the strategy for the co-creation workhop. MENHIR’s concept of co-creation is that people are not perceived as passive recipients of the technology, but as partners in its design. During the co-creation workshop, AMH clients, AMH key workers and …
The first secondments have finally started and we have had a second meeting in Granada to discuss about the data collection initiative that will take place during the summer. UPV, UULM, AMH and UGR were in Granada, UVA, GLOBIT, IV and Ulster participated through Skype.
Maurice Mulvenna and Raymond Bond (Ulster University) are the General Chairs of EACE, that will take place in Belfast (Northern Ireland) from 10 to 13 September 2019. Important dates: Submissions: 8th March Author notification: 3rd May Camera ready: 31st May Early registration: 1st July https://www.ulster.ac.uk/conference/european-conference-on-cognitive-ergonomics
Anna Esposito (UVA), María Inés Torres (UPV) and Zoraida Callejas (UGR) are participating in the organization of a special session at the Interspeech 2019 Conference in Graz (15-19 September 2019). It is entitled: Dynamics of Emotional Speech Exchanges in Multimodal Communication Important Dates: March 29, 2019 Paper submission deadline April 5, 2019 Final paper submission deadline June …