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 …
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.
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 …
First contact between New Life Counselling and the staff from the University of Granada.
The first secondment to Action Mental Health have just started. Antonio Benítez-Guijarro will be working at the Action Mental Health offices from April until August 2019. During this period, the University of Granada and Action Mental Health will work together to analyze what are the needs and requirements to start the research work.