Speech Technology Theory and Applications

Dr. Chen is an associate professor at the Computing Science Department, Chalmers



University of Sweden. She has been working in Human Factors and Ergonomics



research for over 20 years and has published over 20 papers in the cognitive science



specially related to speech technology application. Chen has over 20 years teaching and



research experience on ergonomics, human factors and human-computer interaction.



She has been teaching on human cognition, human-computer interaction, usability and



user-centered design, and research methodology in undergraduate and graduate level. In



the past 8 years, her research interests in focused on speech and multimodal interaction



design in different applications.

Dr. Jokinen is a Professor of Language Technology at the University of Helsinki. She



has played a leading role in several academic and industrial research projects



concerning spoken dialogue systems, cooperative communication, adaptation, and



multimodality. She has published a large number of articles and papers, organized many



workshops in major international workshops, and given several invited talks and



seminars. She is the secretary of the SIGDial, the ISCA/ACL Special Interest Group for



Discourse and Dialogue.