Hyperscanning interactive dialogue (taken)

This project will investigate how individuals adapt to each other during a dialogue. Rather than focusing on speech recordings only, this project will involve the data collection and analysis of neural data from electroencephalography from two individuals simultaneously as a dialogue unfolds. This is part of a bigger project led by a PhD students in … Read more

Getting to know you! How our brains enable familiarisation in speech interaction (taken)

This project will investigate how individuals familiarise with their conversational partners during a dialogue. The student will run an experiment to compare how the neural processing of speech changes as we learn about our interlocutor in different conversational scenarios. The project involves the design of a new experiment, collecting electrical brain data, and analysing that … Read more

Virtual Conversational Agent with Emotions

Metahuman characters [FYP] This project is about building an emotional conversational virtual agent in Unreal Engine that can take text as input and produce speech and associated animations on a Metahuman. The main aspect will be learning to work with virtual human animations and programming the to animate in state-machines. The project will involve integrating … Read more