Mobile systrems

• SIRI, Alexa & Co.: Dialogues under natural conditions
• Signals in real (mobile) environments: Quality preservation during compression and with loss of information
• Dialogues with machines: Intelligent dialogue strategies using prosodic language features and dialogue histories
• Emotions and user states: emotion recognition from speech and other user characteristics, use for better dialogues
• Resource-conserving processing steps of user state recognition on mobile hardware

Mobile user

• Adaptation to changing users
• Getting to know a user
• Transfer-learning, synthetically generated data
• Semi-monitored annotations
• Dialogue semantics (discourse particles, feedback markers)

Mobile environment

• Advanced Driver Assistance Systems: Dialogue systems in the car
• Ambient Assisted Living: domestic assistance
• Collaborative Human-Robot Interaction