Piero Cosi

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), ISTC - UOS Padova ( Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione), Faculty Member

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ISTC CNR, SS PadovaIstituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della CognizioneConsiglio Nazionale delle RicercheSede Secondaria di PadovaVia Martiri della Libertà, 235137 Padova (Italy) Born in Padua, in 1956. He received the Degree on Electronic Engineering from Padua University in 1981. He is currently a Senior speech technology Researcher of ISTC CNR, SS Padova (“Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione of the National Research Council, Sede Secondaria di Padova”) of which He was the Managing Director (2011-2017). His scientific activity has been mainly concerned with signal processing, speech analysis, auditory modelling, automatic speech recognition, neural networks, emotional text-to-speech, facial animation, and interactive talking robot.He is author or co-author of more than 200 papers published in Books, International Journals and Conferences, with Google Scholar h-index=26, and He is and He has been responsible for various national (TICCA, MIUR-FIRB 2003, MISE Speaky Acutattile) and international projects (EU FP6, FP7 - MAGICSTER, PF-Star, ALIZ-E) related to speech technologies and robotics. He is the Director of the "Speech and Multimodal Communication Laboratory" in which various research and development activities concerning the implementation of the Italian versions of various SOFTWARE systems are carried out: CSLU Speech Toolkit, SONIC, SPHINX, JULIUS, BAVIECA and KALDI for automatic speech recognition, FESTIVAL, MBROLA and MaryTTS for TTS (Text-To-Speech) synthesis from written text, and BALDINI, and LUCIA for the creation of expressive and emotional speaking virtual agents. He is the project manager of ILT (Italian Literacy Tutor) an integrated and interactive program for Italian language teaching.He is a senior member of IEEE and AISV, and He is member of the following international associations: ASA, ISCA and INNS. He was President of AISV (Italian Association of Science Voice) (2004-2010), and member of the Forum TAL (Natural Language Processing) of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, and of the International Advisory Committee of ISCA (International Speech Communication Association).He has been the Conference Chair of INTERSPEECH 2011 – 12thAnnual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Florence, 27-31 August 2011.

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Interpretation of Emotional Body Language Displayed by a Humanoid Robot: A Case Study with Children

International Journal of Social Robotics, Jun 5, 2013

Evaluating a multi-avatar game for speech therapy applications

Proceedings of the 4th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good, 2018

In this paper, we propose a new set of experiments to further evaluate the performance of a previ... more In this paper, we propose a new set of experiments to further evaluate the performance of a previously presented system based on an adaptive strategy for stimuli selection masked behind a gamified activity. This involves two virtual agents creating a social setting designed to support a narrative to engage young children. With respect to previously obtained results, we further evaluate the quality of the support for diagnosis purposes and we present a first investigation concerning the applicability of the system for therapeutic goals.

FANTASIA: a framework for advanced natural tools and applications in social, interactive approaches

Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2019

With the recent availability of industry-grade, high-performing engines for video games productio... more With the recent availability of industry-grade, high-performing engines for video games production, researchers in different fields have been exploiting the advanced technologies offered by these artefacts to improve the quality of the interactive experiences they design. While these engines provide excellent and easy-to-use tools to design interfaces and complex rule-based systems to control the experience, there are some aspects of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research they do not support in the same way because of their original mission and related design patterns pointing at a different primary target audience. In particular, the more research in HCI evolves towards natural, socially engaging approaches, the more there is the need to rapidly design and deploy software architectures to support these new paradigms. Topics such as knowledge representation, probabilistic reasoning and voice synthesis demand space as possible instruments within this new ideal design environment. In this work, we propose a framework, named FANTASIA, designed to integrate a set of chosen modules (a graph database, a dialogue manager, a game engine and a voice synthesis engine) and support rapid design and implementation of interactive applications for HCI studies. We will present a number of different case studies to exemplify how the proposed tools can be deployed to develop very different kinds of interactive applications and we will discuss ongoing and future work to further extend the framework we propose.

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