From Talking to Thinking Heads: Report 2008

International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2008, AVSP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 127-130

  Burnham, D ^a   Abrahamyan, A ^a   Cavedon, L ^b   Davis, C ^a   Hodgins, A ^a   Kim, J ^a   Kroos, C ^a   Kuratate, T ^a   Lewis, T ^c   Luerssen, M ^c   Paine, G ^d   Powers, D ^c   Riley, M ^a   Stelarc, ^a   Stevens, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Evaluation; Human computer interaction; Performance; Talking heads

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EVALUATION; HUMAN ATTRIBUTES; HUMAN MACHINE INTERACTION; PERFORMANCE; PLUG-AND-PLAY; PROJECT PROGRESS; REAL-TIME ENVIRONMENT; RESEARCH PLATFORMS; TALKING HEADS; TEST SOFTWARES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 85133433233     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

1. Burnham, D., Dale, R., Stevens, K., Powers, D., Davis, C., Buchholz, J., Kuratate, K., Kim, J., Paine, G., Kitamura, C., Wagner, M., Möller, S., Black, A., Schultz, T., & Bothe, H. From Talking Heads to Thinking Heads: A Research Platform for Human Communication Science. (Australian Research Council/National Health & Medical Research Council Special Initiatives Grant, TS0669874), 2006-2011; http://thinkinghead.edu.au/
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7. Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), June 10 to July 3, 2008.
8. See also Fagel, S., Kuehnel, C., Weiss, B., Wechsung, I., Möller, S. A Comparison of German Talking Heads in a Smart Home Environment. Paper at AVSP 2008, in which a German-speaking version of the Thinking Head in a smart home environment with a natural sounding speech synthesis system (MARY) was preferred by users over two other systems.
9. http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/walkinghead/index.html