Julian Hough

Julian Hough

Researcher and Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction

Associate Professor
Human-centred computing research group (FIT lab)
and Intelligent Robotics group
Department of Computer Science
Computational Foundry
Swansea University

Contact: julian.hough@swansea.ac.uk

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School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Swansea University

News

  • February 2025: The core FLUIDITY project team is hosting a Special Session on Fluidity in Human-Robot Interaction at IEEE RO-MAN 2025 in Eindhoven - see the details here. Paper submission deadline is March 20, 2025.
  • November 2024: We had a very successful workshop on Fluidity in human-agent interaction at HAI 2024, hosted in Swansea.

About Me

I'm a researcher and lecturer who builds computational models of human communication with natural language and physical action from human-human data, and then implements them in artificial systems to make interaction more natural. Anyone afraid that AI is a done deal and that the machines are coming for us is welcome to interact with state-of-the-art systems which interpret and generate speech and gesture- you will probably walk away rather relieved, and with more understanding as to why people like me have a job!

I am generally interested in situated, spoken dialogue, both as an object of study in and of itself and for building interactive machines that might finally work. A lot of my work tries to give systems incremental, live processing ability and interactive responsiveness. Furthermore, these models of human interaction and improvements in interactive technologies should be applied to build a more equitable world, so, wherever possible the end applications are in education and health.

I am an Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Department of Computer Science at the Computational Foundry (School of Mathematics and Computer Science) at Swansea University and researcher in the Human-centred computing research group (FIT lab) and Intelligent Robotics group. Since 2019 I have been co-president, with Ellen Breitholtz, of the excellent SemDial workshop series.

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