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Dr. Jan AlexanderssonSenior Researcher, Intelligent User Interfaces department
Head, Competence Center on Ambient Assisted Living German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence -- DFKI GmbH
Room C0.09
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Phone: +49-681-85775-5347, Fax: +49-681-85775-5020
E-Mail: janal this one dfki one of thesede
Research Interests:
Basically anything that makes devices more user friendly. Here are some of the topics I've been working on: Dialogue and Discourse Modeling/Processing, Natural Language Parsing/Generation, Automatic Validation of Dialogue Systems/Models, Statistical Modeling, Default Reasoning, VoiceXML technology, Meeting Summarization, User-Centred Design, Accessible Human-Computer Interaction, Design for all, URC TechnologyCurrent Projects: (Past: VerbMobil SmartKom ValDia/ValDiaGram An NL-interface for the ARIS toolkit AMI AMIDA BLIST)
- i2home - Intuitive
Interaction for Everyone with Home Appliances based Industry
Standards, a project funded by the European Commission (FP6,
eInclusion) Some related Links
- DFKI receives Best Demo and Best Video award for URC-based Technology at this year's international Intelligent Environments ConferenceNottingham
- EU promotes i2home one year after the project ends
- BBC Video on i2home
- Dual Reality@CEBIT2010
- BBC News Ticker Entry on i2home
- Pressetext News Ticker Entry on i2home (in German)
- VITAL - Vital Assistance For The Elderly, another project funded by the European Commission (FP6, eInclusion)
- DORIS - a collaboration with Monash University funded by the Australian Research Council.
- SmartSenior - Intelligent Services for Elderly People, an AAL project funded by the German BMBF
- SensHome - Intelligente Erfassung und Aufbereitung Sensorischer Daten im Smart Home (Intelligent capturing and processing of sensor data in Smart Homes)
- MIA - Monitoring, Interacting, Assisting
- AVOS - Auditory Vocabulary Trainer for People with ViSually Impairments
- MOBIA: Mobil bis ins hohe Alter (Barrierefreie Mobilität durch technisch unterstützte Assistenzsysteme und Dienstleistungen im saarländischen ÖPNV)
- SIforAGE: Social Innovation on active and healthy ageing for sustainable economic growth (FP7, 2012-2016)
Professional Activities:
- I'm the head of the DFKI competence center AAL - CCAAL
- I'm member of the editorial group of the ISO Project N442 (in ISO/TC 37/SC 4/ WG 2) on Dialogue Acts
- I am president of the the OpenURC consortium
- Some Publications etc
- Teaching & Supervision
- 2012-2013: Seminar: Multimodal Dialog Systems: Personalization and Generic Approaches (together with Prof. Dietrich Klakow)
- Some Events I'm involved in (some past
events):
- Eigths Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation isa-5, Pisa, October 3-5, 2012 (Programme Committee)
- IWSDS'2012 Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, Paris, France, November 28-30, 2012 (Scientific Committee)
- Eigth Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation isa-8 to be held in conjunction with IWCS 2013, Potsdam, Germany (Programme Committee)
- ICMI 2012 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Santa Monica, CA (Area Chair)
- Interspeech 2012, Florence, Portland, Oregon, on September 9-13 (Scientific Review Committee)
- Third Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), to be held in Montreal following NAACL-HLT on June 7th-8th, 2012. (Co-organizer)
- The 50th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistic (ACL 2012) July 8-14, 2012, Jeju, Korea (Reviewer)
- 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for computational Linguistics (EACL12) Avignon France April 23 - 27 2012 (Reviewer)
- 5. Deutscher AAL-Kongress, Berlin, Germany, January, 24-25, 2012 (Program Committee)
- 6. Deutscher AAL-Kongress, Berlin, Germany, January, 2013 (Program Committee)
Some links:
- I'm still reading From Molecule to Metaphore by Jerry Feldman
- Pelota goes Sweden...
- Interview in magazine Wohn!Design on the i2home project, issue 1, 2008, Jan/Feb. (In German)
- SBAP is dead! Ain't this what life was really all about? click here
- A Map of the Campus
- Verbmobil and VM-Internal
- Some tourist attractions around of Saarbrücken
- Swedish is that simple: Crach Course for Germans -- some explanation, Some local Mundart
- SmartKom and SmartKom intern
- ETAI and ETAI at DFKI, JAIR
- LIDOS , citeseer , Karlsruhe
- Some nice hints when writing papers in the area of Computer Linguistic by Mark-Jan Nederhof
- Advice on Research and Writing
- Latex2HTML
- happa, Food on the campus
- DFKI Intranet
- The greatest piece ever played, Clean Power - Clean Conscience, Things I laugh about
- Common Knowledge Library
- My:
- personal 128-bit Integer: 0F 1F BB 1D 89 A7 74 4D 1E B2 95 EC 6F 03 FF 2B
- old home pages