Engagement is a concept of the utmost importance in human-computer interaction, not only
for informing the design and implementation of interfaces, but also for enabling more …

Movement dataset reviews exist but are limited in coverage, both in terms of size and
research discipline. While topic-specific reviews clearly have their merit, it is critical to have a …

During the past decade, several areas of speech and language understanding have
witnessed substantial breakthroughs from the use of data-driven models. In the area of …

Gestures and speech interact. They are linked in language production and perception, with
their interaction contributing to felicitous communication. The multifaceted nature of these …

Recently, the debate about what kind of speech data is most appropriate for linguistic
research has intensified. Generally, with 'laboratory speech'defenders on the one hand and …

Modelling, analysis and synthesis of behaviour are the subject of major efforts in computing
science, especially when it comes to technologies that make sense of human–human and …

Current methodologies in corpus linguistics have revolutionized the way we look at
language. They allow us to make objective observations about written and spoken …

With societies growing more and more conscious of human social biases that are implicit in
most of our interactions, the development of automated robot social behavior is failing to …

Automated co-located human–human interaction analysis has been addressed by the use of
nonverbal communication as measurable evidence of social and psychological phenomena …

This PhD project leverages advancements in multimodal large language models to build an
inclusive collaboration feedback loop, in order to facilitate the automated detection …