Past News

2007

4.10.2007: A new Companions video in YouTube!
9.9.2007: SiMPE - 2nd Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (in conjunction with Mobile HCI '07), Singapore.
1.-2.9.2007: "Tutoring in a Spoken Dialogue System" by Jaakko Hakulinen, Markku Turunen and Kari-Jouko Räihä will be presented at the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue.
27.-31.8.2007: "Design of a Rich Multimodal Interface for Mobile Spoken Route Guidance" by Markku Turunen, Jaakko Hakulinen, Anssi Kainulainen, Aleksi Melto and Topi Hurtig will be presented at Interspeech 2007 - Eurospeech, 2007.
21.8.2007: New Nabaztag and TravelMan videos in YouTube!
20.8.2007: The book from EASE-project, "Älykkäiden ympäristöjen suunnittelu - Kohti ekologista systeemiajattelua" is published.
26.-29.6.2007: "Soundmarks in Spoken Route Guidance" by Anssi Kainulainen, Markku Turunen, Jaakko Hakulinen and Aleksi Melto will be presented in the 13th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2007) conference.
2.8.2007: Control your wireless rabbbit (Nabaztag/tag) with our open source software jNabServer.
6.-7.6.2007: PUMS summer-seminar (including the introduction of 2nd version of the Matkamies application), Turku.
21.5.2007: A public pilot use of the Matkamies application has been started! For further information, see the press release (in Finnish): lehdistötiedote suomeksi.
24.4.2007: FENIX Results Promotion (including PUMS demonstrations), Wanha Satama, Helsinki.
12.-13.3.2007: COMPANIONS meeting, Prague, Czech Republic.
8.-10.1.2007: COMPANIONS meeting, Madrid, Spain.

2006

8.12.2006: Jaakko Hakulinen defended his PhD thesis "Software Tutoring in Speech User Interfaces" at 12 noon in Lecture Hall PinniB 1100.
7.-8.12.2006: Puheteknologian jouluseminaari (Christmas Seminar on Speech Technology), Tampere.
30.11.-1.12.2006: PRIMA seminar, Tampere.
9.-10.11.2006: COMPANIONS kick-off meeting, Oxford, GB.
17.-21.9.2001: Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
12.9.2006: Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments, Espoo, Finland.
28.-29.8.2006: PRIMA kick-off meeting, Stockholm, Sweden.
20.-23.6.2006: ICAD 2006, London, UK.
12.6.2006: Paper entitled "Evaluation of a Spoken Dialogue System with Usability Tests and Long-term Pilot Studies: Similarities and Differences" by Markku Turuen, Jaakko Hakulinen and Anssi Kainulainen has been accepted for publication in Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP.
7.5.2006: 1st International Workshop on Requirements and Solutions for Pervasive Software Infrastructures, Dublin, Ireland.
20.3.2006: Paper entitled "An Architecture for Presenting Auditory Awareness Information in Pervasive Computing Environments" by Anssi Kainulainen, Markku Turuen and Jaakko Hakulinen has been accepted for publication in ICAD 2006.
9.-10.3.2006: Puheteknologian talviseminaari (Speech Technology Winter Seminar), Joensuu, Finland.

2005

15.9.2005: All posters now available in the publications section in electronic format.
4-9.9.2005: Markku, Jaakko and Esa-Pekka attended the INTERSPEECH 2005.
16.8.2005: Anssi completed his thesis. See publications.
21.7.2005: Two papers has been accepted for publication in SPECOM 2005. See publications for more details.
13.6.2005: Markku's Ph.D. thesis has been awarded as the best computer science doctoral thesis in Finland in 2004 by the Finnish Information Processing Association on the recommendation of the Finnish Society for Computer Science. For more information, see the press release (in Finnish): suomenkielinen lehdistötiedote.
13.6.2005: Paper entitled "Hajautettujen puhejärjestelmien dialoginhallintamenetelmät" (Distributed Dialogue Management Techniques) by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Perttu Prusi, Anssi Kainulainen, and Leena Helin was presented in "Tietojenkäsittelytieteen päivät 2005" (the annual computer science event).
4.6.2005: Three papers has been accepted for publication in Interspeech 2005. See publications for more details.
23.5.2005: Paper entitled "Software Tutors for Dialogue Systems" by Jaakko Hakulinen, Markku Turunen, and Esa-Pekka Salonen has been accepted for publication in TSD 2005 - 8th Internatioal Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue.
6.5.2005: Markku is a finalist for the 2005 Cor Baayen Award ("a most promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics"). See ERCIM pages.
2.2.2005: Paper entitled "An architecture and applications for speech-based accessibility systems" by Markku Turunen, Jaakko Hakulinen, Kari-Jouko Räihä, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Anssi Kainulainen and Perttu Pursi has been accepted for publication in IBM Systems Journal.
10.2.2005: Speech User Interface Project Work course starts.
2.2.2005: Perttu completed his thesis. See publications.
20.1.2005: Design and Development of Speech Interfaces course starts.
17.-18.1.2005: COST 278 MC meeting (Granada, Spain).
10.1.2005: EkoÄly-project kick-off meeting (Helsinki).

2004

29.10.2004: Dumas review at Tampere.
23.-27.10.2004: Paper entitled "Adaptivity in Speech-based Multilingual E-mail Client" by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mikko Hartikainen, Markku Turunen, Jaakko Hakulinen, Jyrki Rissanen, Kari Kanto, and Kristiina Jokinen was presented in NordiCHI 2004 conference in Tampere, Finland. See publications for a copy.
23.-27.10.2004: AthosMail was demonstrated in NordiCHI
14-15.10.2004: Speech and language technology seminar in Turku, Finland. Timetable application was demonstrated there. See http://users.utu.fi/misaja/PUMS/PKT-seminaari/ for presentations (in finnish).
4.-8.10.2004: Three papers entitled "Subjective Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems Using SERVQUAL Method", "Robust and Adaptive Architecture for Multilingual Spoken Dialogue Systems" and "Flexible Dialogue Management Using Distributed and Dynamic Dialogue Control" by Markku Turunen, Jaakko Hakulinen, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Mikko Hartikainen were presented in ICSLP 2004 conference in Jeju, Korea, 4-8 October 2004. See publications for a copy.
13.9.2004: Starting lecture of Speech Interface Design course. Registration is required. Further information on SID web pages.
30.-31.8.2004: COST278 and ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Robustness Issues in Conversational Interaction, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
28.-29.8.2004: Paper entitled "AthosMail - a Multilingual Adaptive Spoken Dialogue System for E-mail Domain" by Markku Turunen et al. was be presented in Dumas-supported Satellite Workshop on Robust and Adaptive Information Processing for Mobile Speech Interfaces in Geneva, Switzerland. See publications for a copy.
1.-4.8.2004: Paper entitled "Tutor Design for Speech-Based Interfaces" by Jaakko Hakulinen, Markku Turunen, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Kari-Jouko Räihä is to be presented in DIS 2004 (Designing Interactive Systems) conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. See publications for a copy.
20.-21.5.2004: DUMAS-meeting, Italy, Capri.
8.-9.5.2004: COST 278 MC meeting, Lithuania.
13.3.2004: Markku's Ph.D. thesis defense. See also the press release (in finnish): lehdistötiedote suomeksi. The thesis can be found in publications-page.
25.2.2004: Mikko got Telecom Scholarship commendation from his thesis. He will be rewarded in Finlandia-Hall at March 16 th. See information of the event (in finnish). See also publications.
18.-20.1.2004: COST 278 MC meeting, Mons, Belgium
14.1.2004: Speech User Interface Project Work starts at 14
11.-12.1.2004: DUMAS-meeting, KTH, Stockholm

2003

31.10.2003: Dumas review, Luxembourg
30.9.-2.10.2003: Pysäkkimies was introduced at HITEC-exhibition, at Tampere Exhibition Centre Pirkkahalli
1.9.2003: Ivan Tugoy started in group.
9.9.2003: first lecture of Speech Interface Design -course
1-4.9.2003: EuroSpeech2003, Geneve, Switzerland. Markku and Jaakko presented papers "Agents for Integrated Tutoring in Spoken Dialogue Systems" and "Jaspis ² - An Architecture For Supporting Distributed Spoken Dialogues"
15.-17.9.2003: Dumas meeting, Helsinki
9.-11.6.2003: DUMAS integration Camp, TAUCHI.
3.6.2003: Mikko completed his thesis. See publications.
27.5.2003: Papers "Agents for Integrated Tutoring in Spoken Dialogue Systems" and "Jaspis ² - An Architecture For Supporting Distributed Spoken Dialogues" accepted for publication (Eurospeech 2003). See publications.
4.-6.5.2003: COST 278 Management Committee Meeting, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.
9.-12.4.2003: DUMAS Project Meeting, Budapest, Hungary.
1.4.2003: "The Use Of Walking Sounds In Supporting Awareness" accepted for publication (ICAD 2003). See publications.
31.3.2003: Kaj completed his thesis. See publications.
9.-11.2.2003: COST 278 Management Committee Meeting at Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, in Barcelona, Spain
28.1.2003: USIX closing seminar, Scandic Hotel Continental, Helsinki
15.1.2003: Opening Lecture of the Course Speech User Interface Project Work in Lecture room 0081 in Pinni building at 2pm.

2002

12.12.2002: Usix demo at TAIK (Hämeentie 135 C, 00560 Helsinki), starting 13.30. Follow guidance from the C-stair.
27.11.2002: Esa-Pekka has completed his thesis
28.-29.11.2002: Dumas review in Luxemburg
18.11-22.11.2002: MUMIN PhD course on Multimodal Interfaces, Tampere
13.-14.11.2002: MindTrek-week: The Futuuri exhibition at Tampere-Hall. Postimies will be presented there.
30.9.-1.10.2002: Ubicomp 2002 in Gothenburg, Sweden
29.9.-2.10.2002: Dumas workshop in Frankfurt
26.-27.9.2002: Voice Web Initiative conference in London
25.-27.8.2002: COST 278 meeting in Eindhoven
1.7.2002: Mikko Hartikainen, our summer trainee, started his work
28.5.2002: Interact demo day at TaiK
16.5.2002: Dumas press conference 12.00 at TaiK
4.-5.4.2002: Markku and Jaakko participated in DUMAS project meeting in Manchester
1.4.2002: Kalvokäyttöliittymät -project started
14.1.2002: Anssi came back to work.
7.1.2002: Jaakko came back to work.

2001

14.12.2001: Esa-Pekka presented a paper entitled "Conducting a Wizard of Oz Experiment on a Ubiquitous Computing System Doorman" in International Workshop on Information Presentation and Natural Multimodal Dialogue.
01.10.2001 DUMAS project started. Kari-Jouko and Markku participated in kickoff-meeting.
01.10.2001: A new employee, Perttu Sliden, started in group.
30.09.2001: Kaj and Perttu P. participated in Ubicomp 2001.
26.09.2001: Markku was interviewed in "Bittivirtaa" radio show (station "Ylen Ykkönen").
10.09.2001: Markku presented a paper entitled "Agent-based Adaptive Interaction and Dialogue Management Architecture for Speech Applications" in TSD 2001 - Text, Speech and Dialogue.
03.09.2001: Markku presented a paper entitled "Agent-based Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems" in Eurospeech 2001. Kari-Jouko was also attending the conference.
31.08.2001: Mailman II was introduced at Speech and Language Technology Day.