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Congratulations for your PhD Robin!
We are so proud about the first PhD obtained by a young researcher in…
Towards conversational technology to promote, monitor and protect mental health
Zoraida Callejas, David Griol, Kawtar Benghazi, Manuel Noguera, María Inés Torres, Raquel Justo, Anna…
A proposal for emotion recognition using speech features, transfer learning and convolutional neural networks
Roberto Móstoles, David Griol, Zoraida Callejas and Fernando Fernández-Martínez (2021). A proposal for emotion…
HelpUs2HelpU event – MENHIR, FAITH and OncoRelief H2020 projects
#EUfunded #H2020 research projects @H2020_Faith, @MenhirH2020 and @OncoRelief come together in a virtual joint…
Towards the Development of a Trustworthy Chatbot for Mental Health Applications
Matthias Kraus, Philip Seldschopf, Wolfgang Minker. Towards the Development of a Trustworthy Chatbot for…
Conversational user interfaces (CUI 2021)
Following the successful ACM In-Cooperation CUI conferences in 2019 and 2020, CUI 2021 will…
Conversational agents for mental health and wellbeing
Authors: David Griol, Zoraida Callejas It will be a chapter in the book: Lopez-Soto,…
MENHIR participation in the Science Week (Spanish)
Las máquinas tienen su propio lenguaje. Cuando queremos comunicarnos con ellas, tenemos que adaptarnos…
First Workshop on Multimodal e-Coaches
Authors: Leonardo Angelini, Mira El Kamali, Elena Mugellini, Omar Abou Khaled, Yordan Dimitrov, Vera…
Measuring and fostering engagement with mental health e-coaches
Authors: Zoraida Callejas, David Griol, Kawtar Benghazi, Manuel Noguera, Gérard Chollet, María Inés Torres,…
Co-creating Requirements and Assessing End-User Acceptability of a Voice-Based Chatbot to Support Mental Health: A Thematic Analysis of a Living Lab Workshop
Authors: Antonio Benítez-Guijarro, Raymond Bond, Frederick Booth, Zoraida Callejas, Edel Ennis, Anna Esposito, Matthias Kraus, Gavin McConvey, Michael McTear, Maurice Mulvenna, Courtney Potts, Louisa Pragst, Robin Turkington,…
Conversational Systems Research in Spain: A Scientometric Approach
Authors: David Griol, Zoraida Callejas DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8395-7_31 Citation: Griol D., Callejas Z. (2021) Conversational…
A Content and Knowledge Management System Supporting Emotion Detection from Speech
Reference and DOI: Vu B. et al. (2021) A Content and Knowledge Management System…
MENHIR International Doctoral Summer School in Conversational Systems for Mental e-health
Dates: 5-9 October 2020 Web: https://menhir-project.eu/index.php/summer-school-home/ The summer school on Conversational Systems for Mental…
Adaptive dialogue management using intent clustering and fuzzy rules
Authors: David Griol, Zoraida Callejas, José Manuel Molina, Araceli Sanchis DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.12630 Citation: Griol,…
How Human Likeness, Gender and Ethnicity affect Elders’Acceptance of Assistive Robots
Anna Esposito, Terry Amorese, Marialucia Cuciniello, Maria Teresa Riviello, Gennaro Cordasco. How Human Likeness,…
How Human Likeness, Gender and Ethnicity affect Elders’ Acceptance of Assistive Robots
Anna Esposito, Terry Amorese, Marialucia Cuciniello, Maria Teresa Riviello, Gennaro Cordasco. How Human Likeness,…
Mobile conversational agents for stroke rehabilitation therapy
Authors: David Griol, Zoraida Callejas Citation: D. Griol and Z. Callejas, “Mobile Conversational Agents…
Ethical issues in assistive ambient living technologies for ageing well
Francesco Panico, Gennaro Cordasco, Carl Vogel, Luigi Trojano, Anna Esposito. Ethical issues in assistive…
Towards Socially and Emotionally Believable ICT Interfaces
Esposito A., Faundez-Zanuy M., Morabito F.C., Pasero E. (2021) Towards Socially and Emotionally Believable…
MENHIR co-organises workshop at ICMI 2020
The 22nd ACM Conference on Multimodal Interaction is scheduled for 25-29 October 2020 in…
Un programa europeo utilizará ‘chatbots’ para ayudar a pacientes con problemas de salud mental (Neurocienciasonline)
https://www.neurocienciasonline.com/noticia/un-programa-europeo-utilizara-chatbots-para-ayudar-a-pacientes-con-problemas-de-salud-mental
MENHIR in RabioLab (in Spanish)
Zoraida Callejas presents MENHIR to the general public in RadioLab, listen to the podcast…
MENHIR in Facebook – Oficina de Proyectos Internacionales (Granada, Spain)
https://www.facebook.com/oficina.proyectos.internacionales/photos/a.822309041141773/2831507373555253/?type=3&av=676842029021809&eav=AfZROFPA1MXTiJp1gEjE4Ht-5Aoxx2mUD-Rr6fQpHEVcxBrYi5jyzq2Bo6DmlSS_jPY&theater
Training on Open Educational Resources
Zoraida Callejas has participated as lecturer in the course “Digital Educational Resources in the…
MENHIR in the newspapers
MENHIR appears in the press!! IDEAL (Spanish regional newspaper): https://www.ideal.es/miugr/participa-proyecto-europeo-20200204103911-nt.html?edtn=granada#vca=fixed-btn&vso=rrss&vmc=tw&vli=miUGR NovaCiencia (science magazine): https://novaciencia.es/estudian-el-uso-de-chatbots-para-reducir-la-ansiedad-y-la-depresion-leve/…
MENHIR inspiring scientific and technological vocations
Our colleague David Griol from University of Granada (UGR) has participated today in the…
MENHIR press release
The press office of the University of Granada (Spain) has generated a press release…
Un proyecto europeo utilizará ‘chatbots’ para mejorar la salud mental de pacientes con ansiedad y depresión leve (GranadaEsNoticia newspaper)
https://www.granadaesnoticia.com/universidad/un-proyecto-europeo-utilizara-chatbots-para-mejorar-la-salud-mental-de-pacientes-con-ansiedad-y-depresion-leve
Utilizan ‘chatbots’ para ayudar a gestionar la ansiedad y depresión leve (Redacción Médica)
https://www.redaccionmedica.com/secciones/psiquiatria/utilizan-chatbots-para-ayudar-a-gestionar-la-ansiedad-y-depresion-leve-7002
La UGR participa en un proyecto europeo que utilizará inteligencia artificial para tratar la ansiedad y depresión leve (Newspaper: Ideal)
https://www.ideal.es/miugr/participa-proyecto-europeo-20200204103911-nt.html?edtn=granada#vca=fixed-btn&vso=rrss&vmc=tw&vli=miUGR
Coordination of Speech Recognition Devices in Intelligent Environments with Multiple Responsive Devices
Authors: Benítez-Guijarro, Callejas, Noguera, Benghazi DOI: 10.3390/proceedings2019031054 Repository link: http://hdl.handle.net/10481/58851 Link to the publication:…
Seniors’ Appreciation of Humanoid Robots
Authors: Anna Esposito, Marialucia Cuciniello, Terry Amorese, Antonietta M. Esposito, Alda Troncone, Mauro N.…
Some Note on Artificial Intelligence
Authors: Anna Esposito, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Eros Pasero DOI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-8950-4_1 Repository link:…
BEhavINg coGnitive Systems: Believable, Autonomous, Adaptive, Context Aware (BEINGS)
MENHIR is involved in the organization of the special session: BEhavINg coGnitive Systems: Believable,…
Data recording season
End of October, November and December will be the months for the initial MENHIR…
MENHIR: Mental health monitoring through interactive conversations
Authors: Zoraida Callejas, Kawtar Benghazi, Manuel Noguera, María Inés Torres, Raquel Justo DOI: 10.26342/2019-63-15…
Architecting dietary intake monitoring as a service combining NLP and IoT
Authors: Antonio Benítez-Guijarro, Zoraida Callejas, Manuel Noguera, Kawtar Benghazi Citation: Benítez-Guijarro, A., Callejas, Z.,…
The Dependability of Voice on Elders’ Acceptance of Humanoid Agents
Authors: Anna Esposito, Terry Amorese, Marialucia Cuciniello, Maria Teresa Riviello, Antonietta M. Esposito, Alda…
Discovering Dialog Rules by Means of an Evolutionary Approach
David Griol, Zoraida Callejas DOI: 10.21437/interspeech.2019-2230 Repository link: http://hdl.handle.net/10481/58919 Link to the publication: https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2019/abstracts/2230.html
EEGs as potential predictors of virtual agents’ acceptance
Betul Tolgay, Silvia Dell’Orco, Mauro N. Maldonato, Carl Vogel, Luigi Trojano, Anna Esposito (2019).…
MENHIR promoting STEM among high school students
From 5th to 15th November the University of Granada (UGR) will host the Week of Science…
NII Shonan Meeting on Spoken Multimodal Dialogue Systems Technology for Pervasive Computing
Our colleagues Wolfgang Minker (Ulm University) and Zoraida Callejas (University of Granada) together with…
MENHIR at the XXXV Int. Conf. of the Spanish Society for Natural Language
The MENHIR project has been presented by Zoraida Callejas at the Conference of the…
Special session in IWSDS2020
Splendid news! Our proposal for a special session on “Dialogue systems for mental e-health”…
MENHIR at Interspeech 2019
MENHIR has been present at Interspeech 2019 in a special session entitled “Dynamics of…
Intense August in MENHIR 🙂
MENHIR is non-stop and we continue working during August. We have had several secondments…
AMH, UVA and UGR collaboration
During July we have had several secondments from senior and early stage researchers from…
MENHIR Meeting with InvestNI
Today Claire Griffin showed colleagues from Action Mental Health, University of Granada and Università…
Facial Emotion Recognition Skills and Measures in Children and Adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Aliki Economides, Yiannis Laouris, Massimiliano Conson, Anna Esposito. Facial Emotion Recognition Skills and Measures in Children and Adolescents…
Co-creation workshop
Today we have held a co-creation workshop in Action Mental Health Newtonards where we…
General Assembly and Steering Committee Meetings
Yesterday we had the meetings of the General Assembly and Steering Committee in Belfast.…
RTTHSS2019: Summer School on Speech Technologies
María Inés Torres (UPV) will give a lecture on VoiceBots in the RTTH Summer…
Strategy for the co-creation workshop
The colleagues from University of Granada (UGR) and Action Mental Health (AMH) have started…
The European Conference on Mental Health (ECMH)
The ECMH want to increase collaboration between service users and professionals in different fields.…
Meeting with New Life Counselling
First contact between New Life Counselling and the staff from the University of Granada.
First secondment to Action Mental Health
The first secondment to Action Mental Health have just started. Antonio Benítez-Guijarro will be…
First secondments / Meeting in Granada
The first secondments have finally started and we have had a second meeting in…
European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics
Maurice Mulvenna and Raymond Bond (Ulster University) are the General Chairs of EACE, that…
Special session Interspeech 2019
Anna Esposito (UVA), María Inés Torres (UPV) and Zoraida Callejas (UGR) are participating in…