A Speech and Gesture Spatial Corpus in Assisted Living

Dimitra Anastasiou


Abstract
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is the name for a European technology and innovation funding programme. AAL research field is about intelligent assistant systems for a healthier and safer life in the preferred living environments through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). We focus specifically on speech and gesture interaction which can enhance the quality of lifestyle of people living in assistive environments, be they seniors or people with physical or cognitive disabilities. In this paper we describe our user study conducted in a lab at the University of Bremen in order to collect empirical speech and gesture data and later create and analyse a multimodal corpus. The user study is about a human user sitting in a wheelchair and performing certain inherently spatial tasks.
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L12-1611
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
Year:
2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2351–2354
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/1024_Paper.pdf
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Dimitra Anastasiou. 2012. A Speech and Gesture Spatial Corpus in Assisted Living. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 2351–2354, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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