Participant Spotlight
Tricia McCabe, University of Sydney Research area: Speech Pathology - apraxia, dyspraxia, phonological disorders, speech acquisitionTricia's main research area is treatment for moderate-severe speech impairments in children. Within this area she has a number of interests including (a) developing new and effective treatments for Childhood Apraxia of Speech (also known as dyspraxia), (b) disorders of speech which cause impairments to production of polysyllabic words and longer linguistic units, and (c) the comparison of phonological and articulation treatments to demonstrate relative effectiveness and efficiency.
Tricia is particularly interested in the application of the principles of speech motor learning to new treatments for CAS particularly and articulation disorders more generally.
She is also interested in the application of Evidence Based Practice (EBP) in speech pathology, speech pathology service delivery innovations and examining professional voice user training efficacy with regard to the principles of motor learning.
NewsWelcome to the first HCSNet Update Newsletter for the year!
For our new readers, we'd like to remind you that HCSNet Update is a weekly electronic publication of HCSNet, distributed to national and international participants. Each issue contains a member spotlight feature to inform members about research interests and current projects of colleagues in the Network; announcements of interest to the community; and a listing of upcoming conference and workshop deadlines drawn from HCSNet's events database. Contributions to HCSNet Update are welcomed (email to newsletter@hcsnet.edu.au ) and will be published space permitting and at the editor's discretion. We look forward to your participation in HCSNet activities in 2010!
Call for Papers - HCSNet Workshop: Advances in Speech Production: Tools, Techniques and Recent Research
The ARC Human Communication Sciences Network (HCSNet) is holding a workshop to introduce and describe the function of some of the tools used in speech production research, e.g., EMA, NDI WAVE system; Optical motion capture, Ultrasound, Electropalatograph (EPG), Electroglottograph (EGG). This two-day workshop will be held on at MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney and will provide hands on demonstrations of how such technology is being used to explore the intricacies of both speech production and perception. The meeting will include keynote addresses by international and national leaders in the field, including:
ERIC VATIKIOTIS-BATESON, U British Columbia (Canada), Linguistics Department and Cognitive Systems Program Recording and analysis of talking faces and vocal tract articulators.
DOUGLAS WHALEN, Haskins Laboratories, Director/Founder of the Endangered Language Fund (U.S.A.) Ultrasound investigation of speech articulation dynamics.
MARK TIEDE, Haskins Laboratories, MIT (U.S.A.) Electro-Magnetic Articulometry (EMA) examination and analysis of tongue-lip-jaw dynamics during speech.
ANDY BUTCHER, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Flinders University, Electropalatograph (EPG).
This event is aimed toward higher degree research students, postdoctoral fellows, and established researchers in speech sciences, phonetics and psycholinguistics whose research includes study speech production, and/or who want to incorporate into their research toolbox one or more of these cutting edge technologies for investigating the multi-faceted and multi-modal dynamics of human speech. For more information, including details of submission formats, please see: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2010/asp_2010
QUT PhD Scholarships in Ubiquitous Technology for Sustainable Food Culture
The Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation (iCi) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) invites applications from outstanding IT graduates around the globe for a three-year PhD scholarship. The successful applicant will commence their candidature at QUT in the 2010 academic year to be part of an international research project on designing ubiquitous technologies for sustainable food culture. Titled ‘Eat, Cook, Grow: Ubiquitous Technology for Sustainable Food Culture in the City,’ this is an ARC Linkage project jointly funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC), Intel People and Practices Lab, Queensland Health, Food Connect, City Food Growers, and James Street Cooking School. Application close on the 15th March 2010. More information about the project is available at http://www.urbaninformatics.net/blog/?page_id=670.
Upcoming Submission Deadlines
We list here upcoming submission deadlines that fall in the next month. A more complete list of submission deadlines can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.
14th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation
Saint-Raphaël, France
Due date: 5 Feb 2010
URL: http:www.eamt2010.org
WoLLIC 2010 17th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information & Computation
Brasília, DF, Brazil
Due date: 28 Feb 2010
URL: http://wollic.org/wollic2010/
Upcoming Conferences
We list here upcoming conferences and workshops that fall in the next month. A more complete list of events can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.
Prosodic Typology Prosodic Typology: State of the Art & Future Prospects
Berlin, Germany
Date: 24 Feb 2010 to 26 Feb 2010
URL: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/dgfs/
HRI2010 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Osaka, Japan
Date: 2 Mar 2010 to 5 Mar 2010
URL: http://hri2010.org
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