Dr. Jacques Terken Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Department Industrial Design Section User-Centered Engineering Room HG 2:40 Telephone: +31 40 247 5254 Fax: +31 40 247 5376	Postal address: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Department Industrial Design P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands Mail to: j.m.b.terken@tue.nl
Home Research Projects Courses Selected bibliography	Research interests I am a member of the section User-Centred Engineering of the Department "Technology Management". Trained psycholinguist, I got involved in research concerning the contribution of prosodic characteristics to language comprehension. Then, I gradually moved into research on on modelling prosody for speech synthesis. Currently, my research interests concentrate on the application of speech i/o in man-machine interaction, both for speech-only and multi-modal applications. I'm interested both in analytical issues (conducting research aiming to acquire insights in human communication) and in synthetic issues (using this knowledge to develop interfaces). Questions that arise are the following: What constraints need to be satisfied in order to make interaction by spoken language useful in particular contexts? How can speech be combined with other modalities in order to improve man-machine interaction. For instance, what kind of information should be transmitted by speech and what kind of information by other modalities; how can speech be combined with other modalities (pointing by the user, highlighting by the system)? How can we apply speech interaction in order to reduce the dependency of the user on traditional screen-keyboard-mouse (WIMP) interfaces. A more technical interest concerns variation of speaking styles. This subject is one of the themes in COST258, Naturalness of Synthetic Speech. A further interest concerns dialogue modelling, and the relation between discourse structure and prosody, both in monologue and dialogue. back to top