Dr Spyros Kousidis

Affiliation

I am a post-doctoral researcher in the Dialogue Systems Group, based in the University of Bielefeld.

Research Interests

• Study of naturallly occurring human-human and human-computer interaction, in view of speech technology applications.
• Obtaining natural interaction data in lab settings, using task-based interaction and minimally invasive sensors.
• Development of methods for multimodal data acquisition and analysis.
• Understanding interaction phenomena such as turn-taking and alignment in dialogue.
• Developing systems to test hypotheses on dialogue phenomena.

Publications

Older publications

• A Study of Accomodation of Prosodic and Temporal Features in Spoken Dialogues in View of Speech Technology Applications.
  Kousidis, S.
  Doctoral Thesis. Dublin Institute of Technology, 2010.
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• Time Series Analysis of Acoustic Feature Convergence in Human Dialogues.
  Kousidis, S., Dorran, D., McDonnell, C., Coyle, E.
  In: SPECOM 2009 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 2009.
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• Towards measuring continuous acoustic feature convergence in unconstrained spoken dialogues.
  Kousidis, S., Dorran. D., Wang, Y., Vaughan, B., Cullen, C., Campbell, D., McDonnell, C., Coyle, E.
  In: Interspeech 2008. Brisbane, Australia, 2008.
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• The Use of Task Based Mood-Induction Procedures to Generate High Quality Emotional Assets.
  Vaughan, B., Cullen, C., Kousidis, S., Wang, Y., McDonnell, C., Campbell, D.
  In: IT&T 2006 Conference, Carlow, Ireland. October, 2006.
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