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 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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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 …
Registration is now open for the Internacional Doctoral Summer School in Conversational Systems for Health Applications that will take place in the beutiful Carmen de la Victoria (Granada, Spain) from 31st August to 3rd September 2022. The school provides a platform for getting to know and discuss current approaches and research streams in the field …
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MENHIR member María Inés Torres is part of the Steering Committee of the CUI2022 conference, that will take place in Glasgow from 26th to 28th July 2020. CUI 2022 aims to further develop a collaborative community around human-computer interaction issues in speech and language technology, with a specific interest in theory-based and applied scientific issues …
Following the successful ACM In-Cooperation CUI conferences in 2019 and 2020, CUI 2021 will be a hybrid conference with sessions online and in person in Bilbao, Spain. The conference will run from 27–29 July 2021. Topics relevant to the conference include, but are not limited to: voice user experience speech interfaces speech interface theory development …
The 22nd ACM Conference on Multimodal Interaction is scheduled for 25-29 October 2020 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. MENHIR has teamed up with other European projects to explore how e-coaches might benefit from spatially and time-multiplexed interfaces and from different communication modalities (text, visual, audio, etc.). The workshop aims to establish itself as the premiere shared forum …
The MENHIR project has been presented by Zoraida Callejas at the Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language. The slides are openly available in the downloads section!
MENHIR has been present at Interspeech 2019 in a special session entitled “Dynamics of Emotional Speech Exchanges in Multimodal Communication“. The session was organized by Anna Esposito, Manés Torres, Raquel Justo, Zoraida Callejas, Gennaro Cordasco, Gerard Chollet and Neil Glackin (MENHIR) with other prominent researchers (Olga Gordeeva, Kristiina Jokinen, Björn Schuller, Carl Vogel and Alessandro …