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.