Research Priorities
Mobile systrems
- SIRI, Alexa & Co.: Dialogues under natural conditions
- Signals in real (mobile) environments: Quality preservation during compression and with loss of information
- Dialogues with machines: Intelligent dialogue strategies using prosodic language features and dialogue histories
- Emotions and user states: emotion recognition from speech and other user characteristics, use for better dialogues
- Resource-conserving processing steps of user state recognition on mobile hardware
Mobile user
- Adaptation to changing users
- Getting to know a user
- Transfer-learning, synthetically generated data
- Semi-monitored annotations
- Dialogue semantics (discourse particles, feedback markers)
Mobile environment
- Advanced Driver Assistance Systems: Dialogue systems in the car
- Ambient Assisted Living: domestic assistance
- Collaborative Human-Robot Interaction