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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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!
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 …
The Empathic project is presenting its final results and expected impact on 20th May. MENHIR partners Universidad del País Vasco, Università degli studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli and Intelligent Voice have participated in the H2020 Empathic project that is finalizing. On 20th May, there will be an event where they will present their results and …
L. B. Letaifa and M. I. Torres, “Perceptual Borderline for Balancing Multi-Class Spontaneous Emotional Data,” in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 55939-55954, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3071485. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9398699 Repository link: http://hdl.handle.net/10810/50913
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 …
Authors: Leonardo Angelini, Mira El Kamali, Elena Mugellini, Omar Abou Khaled, Yordan Dimitrov, Vera Veleva, Zlatka Gospodinova, Nadejda Miteva, Richard Wheeler, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol, Kawtar Benghazi, Manuel Noguera, Panagiotis Bamidis, Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Despoina Petsani, Andoni Beristain Iraola, Dimitrios I. Fotiadis, Gérard Chollet, María Inés Torres, Anna Esposito, Hannes Schlieter Citation: Leonardo Angelini, Mira El …
Authors: Zoraida Callejas, David Griol, Kawtar Benghazi, Manuel Noguera, Gérard Chollet, María Inés Torres, Anna Esposito Citation: Zoraida Callejas, David Griol, Kawtar Benghazi, Manuel Noguera, Gerard Chollet, María Inés Torres, and Anna Esposito. 2020. Measuring and Fostering Engagement with Mental Health e-Coaches. In Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’20 …
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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, Nicolas Wagner, Huiru Zheng DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8395-7_15 Preprint: https://digibug.ugr.es/handle/10481/64764 Citation: Benítez-Guijarro A. et al. (2021) 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. In: D’Haro L.F., Callejas Z., Nakamura S. …
Reference and DOI: Vu B. et al. (2021) A Content and Knowledge Management System Supporting Emotion Detection from Speech. In: D’Haro L.F., Callejas Z., Nakamura S. (eds) Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 704. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8395-7_28 Repository link to pre-print: http://www.paulmckevitt.com/pubs/iwsds2020.pdf