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 1st International Workshop on “Trustworthy AI for the Future of Risk Management” (TAI-RM2022) has been held on 14th June, 2022 at Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, bringing together academic researchers, industry practitioners, regulators and stakeholders to share their latest results, gather new problems, explore the deep understanding of trustworthy AI, understand the implications of trustworthy …
MENHIR members Maurice Mulvenna and Jane Zheng from Ulster University are co-organizing the First International Workshop on Trustworthy AI for the Future of Risk Management (TAI-RM 2022) in Belfast on 14th June. Topics Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Novel theoretical achievements for TAI methodology. Novel developments for existing TAI techniques. …
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Michael F. McTear has delivered the presentation “Creating conversational interfaces: challenges and solutions” at the Iberoamerican Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit.
We are so proud about the first PhD obtained by a young researcher in our MENHIR team 😀 Robin Turkington has passed his PhD viva, with a Thesis entitled: “Machine learning of anonymous call data from national suicide prevention helpline services: Understanding caller behaviour and policy implications” Congratulations to Robin and his supervisory team (Raymond …
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
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 ECMH want to increase collaboration between service users and professionals in different fields. ECMH believe that services and care processes can be improved with respectful collaboration between different parties. In our conferences every participant’s voice is as important. We give arena for research, practice development, projects and personal experiences. We always have close collaboration …