Maria Staudte
Maria Staudte has been head of the Independent Research Group Embodied Spoken Interaction within the Cluster of Excellence since August 2012.
Her aim is to bridge the gap between a psycholinguistically motivated approach, on the one hand, and the aim to design human-like virtual characters, on the other hand, in investigating the interplay of language and non-verbal cues in spoken face-to-face interaction.
Short CV
- 2010-2012 PostDoc, MMCI Cluster of Excellence
- 2006-2010 PhD in Psycholinguistics on "Joint attention in spoken human-robot interaction", Saarland University
- 2004-2006 M.Sc. in Computational Linguistics, DFKI/Saarland University
- 2001-2004 B.Sc. in Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück
Research interests
Maria's research interests have centered around situated and multimodal communication, i.e., how individuals interact in a shared environment by means of various information channels such as language, gaze and gesture. Specifically, she seeks to find out which information gaze and referential gestures may convey and how this affects speech production and comprehension. One important question is, for instance, how such non-linguistic cues mediate (visual) attention and influence the on-line mapping between language and the visual environment.
To investigate these issues, Maria exploits interaction scenarios involving both people and artificial agents (robots as well as virtual agents). Such agents have the benefit of being fully controllable confederates for which erroneous or odd behaviour is acceptable such that a broader range of manipulations and phenomena can be conducted and investigated.
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Publications
- Nikolina Koleva, Sabrina Hoppe, Mehdi Moniri, Maria Staudte, Andreas Bulling On the interplay between spontaneous spoken instructions and human visual behaviour in an indoor guidance task In: Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015
- Chiara Gambi, Torsten Jachmann, Maria Staudte The role of prosody and gaze in turn-end anticipation In: Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015
- Maria Staudte, Matthew W. Crocker, Alexis Heloir, Michael Kipp The influence of speaker gaze on listener comprehension: Contrasting visual versus intentional accounts In: Cognition, 2014
- Maria Staudte and Alexander Koller and Konstantina Garoufi and Matthew W. Crocker Using listener gaze to augment speech generation in a virtual 3D environment In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012
- Alexander Koller and Konstantina Garoufi and Maria Staudte and Matthew W. Crocker Enhancing Referential Success by Tracking Hearer Gaze In: SIGDIAL Conference, 2012
- Maria Staudte and Alexander Koller and Konstantina Garoufi and Matthew W. Crocker Using listener gaze to augment speech generation in a virtual 3D environment In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012, Sapporo, Japan, August 1-4, 2012, 2012
- Maria Staudte and Matthew W. Crocker and Alexis Heloir and Michael Kipp Speaker gaze affects utterance comprehension beyond visual attention shifting In: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011
- Maria Staudte and Matthew W. Crocker Investigating Joint Attention Mechanisms through Spoken Human-Robot Interaction In: Cognition, 2011
- Maria Staudte and Matthew W. Crocker and Alexis H{\'{e}}loir and Michael Kipp Speaker gaze affects utterance comprehension beyond visual attention shifts In: Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 20-23, 2011, 2011
- Maria Staudte and Matthew W. Crocker When Robot Gaze Helps Human Listeners: Attentional versus Intentional Account In: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2010
- Maria Staudte and Matthew W. Crocker Visual Attention in Spoken Human-Robot Interaction In: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'09), 2009
- Maria Staudte and Matthew W. Crocker The effect of robot gaze on processing robot utterances In: Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2009
- Maria Staudte and Matthew W. Crocker The utility of gaze in human-robot interaction In: Proceedings of "Metrics for HRI", Workshop at the 3rd ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'08), 2008
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