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Olov Engwall

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PROFESSOR

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LINDSTEDTSVÄGEN 24

About me

Professor in Speech Communication

Research interests and projects:

  Research area Project Collaborators
Mattecoach på nätet

NLP-based math tutoring

Digital Futures Demonstrator project: Semi-automated math coaching –using NLP to extend mattecoach

Stefan Hrastinski 

(PI)

Kathy Tian

Malin Jansson

Students interacting with robot

Interaction with social robots for language learning and mathematics tutoring of students with diverse backgrounds

CIRILA - Culturally Informed Robots in Learning Activities (WASP-HSMAW 2021-2023, PI)

Robot-assisted learning for students with diverse language backgrounds (VR 2023-2025)

Olga Viberg,

Iolanda Leite

Ali Reza Majlesi (PI VR)

Silvia Kunitz

Gustav Lymer

Catrin Norrby

Ronald Cumbal

Pablo Oliveras

Frontiers

Culturally and contextually aware robots

Guest editor for research topic in Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Takayuki Kanda

Matthias Rehm

Anotio Sgorbissa

Kerstin Sophie Haring

CORALL

Robot-assisted language learning

CORALL - COllaborative Robot-Assisted Language Learning (VR 2017-2020, PI)

José Lopes

Ronald Cumbal

Gabriel Skantze

ROBERT

Robot-assisted reading practice

ROBERT -Robot Enhanced Reading Training for Students with Dyslexia (Promobilia 2019-2020, PI)

Dyslexiförbundet

Lingio

Mobile second language learning

AI teacher for more efficient learning of the Swedish language (VINNOVA, 2019-2022)

Lingio

Johan Boye

Ronald Cumbal

ARTUR

Computer-assisted language learning and pronunciation training

ARTUR- the Articulation tutor (VR 2004-2006)

CALATEA - Computer animated language teachers (VR 2009-2011, PI)

ADEPT -  Audiovisual detection of errors in pronunciation training (VR 2006-2012, PI)

Hedvig Kjellström

Olle Bälter

Preben Wik

Sherif Abdou

Eunison

Articulatory speech production modelling

EUNISON - Unified domain synthesis (EU 2013-2016)

Sten Ternström (PI)

Oriol Guash (PI)

Marc Arnela

Saeed Dabbaghchian

ASPI

Acoustic to articulatory inversion

ASPI - Audiovisual speech inversion (EU 2005-2008)

Yves Laprie (PI)

Athanasios Katsamanis

Petros Maragos,

G. Ananthakrishnan

Organized conferences:

SLaTE SLaTE 2017: ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education Chair
Interspeech Interspeech 2017 Organization committee, Workshops, Area chair
ISADEPT IS ADEPT 2012: International Symposium on Automatic Detection of Errors in Pronunciation Training Chair
AVSP AVSP 2011: International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing Organization committee

Doctoral students & Postdocs:

Short background:


Courses

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, Second Cycle (DA231X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, Second Cycle (DA239X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, Second Cycle (DA250X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, specialising in ICT Innovation, Second Cycle (DA256X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, specialising in ICT Innovation, Second Cycle (DA258X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, specializing in Industrial Management, Second Cycle (DA235X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, specializing in Interactive Media Technology, Second Cycle (DA232X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, specializing in Machine Learning, Second Cycle (DA233X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, specializing in Systems, Control and Robotics, Second Cycle (DA236X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Industrial Management, first cycle (DA151X), examiner, course responsible, teacher | Course web

Degree Project in Electrical Engineering, Second Cycle (EA250X), examiner | Course web

Multimodal Interaction and Interfaces (DT2140), teacher | Course web