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Joakim Gustafson
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I am an associate professor (docent, lektor) in the Speech group and the deputy head of department of the Department of Speech, Music and Hearing at KTH. I started working with spoken dialogue systems in 1992 as part of the Waxholm project. In 1998 I led the development of the August project, which had the aim of building a synthetic August Strindberg that members of the public could chat with. Between 1998 and 2002 I worked on the AdApt system, which was a multimodal spoken dialogue system for browsing apartments on sale in Stockholm. The topic of my PhD thesis was iterative development of multimodal dialogue systems. Between 2000 and 2007 I had a position as a senior researcher at Telia Research. My main focus was on research projects, but I also acted as expert support in commercial launches of speech applications. In 2001 I worked in the TänkOm project, where visitors at the telecom museum could enter an apartment of the future and interact with the animated agent Pixie. 2002-05 I led the development of Telia's part of the EU funded project NICE. The goal of this project was to build a speech enabled computer game where children could interact with animated 3D game characters. In my current position I am doing long term research in design and development of multimodal conversational systems as well as interactional analysis of spontaneous spoken dialogue phenomena. I am currently leading the VR funded project SamSynt, that investigates how to add conversational phenomena in speech synthesis. I am also involved in two project that aim at developing speech-enabled robots that can ask humans for assistance: in SAVIR a robot enhances its visual scene understanding through spoken human-robot dialogue, and in the EU project IURO a mobile robot will ask pedestrians in Munich for directions. Finally, I am involved in the EU project SpaceBook that develops a speech-driven, hands-free, eyes-free device for pedestrian navigation and exploration, and in the EU project GetHomeSafe develop a spoken dilaogue system for safe information access and communication while driving. I am course responsible for speech technology courses both at undergraduate and graduate level at KTH, as well as lecturer at courses in sound as information medium and language engineering. I am member of the Editorial Board of the journal Speech Communication and the Vision Group Interactive Systems of Meta-net. |
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