KinVoice

KinVoice

About

The voices of traditional virtual assistants are not considered persuasive or credible due to their unfamiliarity KinVoice synthesises the voices of friends and family, integrating them into VUIs (voice user inter-faces) such as Alexa, to create a virtual assistant, giving the user a more convincing and agreeable listening experience, which they are more likely to pay attention to.

Team

Suranga Nanayakkara

Suranga Nanayakkara

National University of Singapore

Suranga Nanayakkara is an Associate Professor at Department of Information Systems & Analytics, School of Computing at National University of Singapore (NUS). Before NUS, he was as Associate Professor at the University of Auckland. He received his PhD in 2010 and BEng in 2005 from the National University of Singapore. He founded the "Augmented Human Lab" to explore ways of designing intelligent human-computer interfaces that extend the limits of our perceptual and cognitive capabilities.

Samantha Chan

Samantha Chan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Samantha Chan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MIT Media Lab, exploring interfaces for augmenting human memory and cognition. She received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from The University of Auckland and B.Eng from Singapore University of Technology and Design. Her research interests include Human Computer Interactions, AI, conversational interfaces, and biosignals.

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Yun Suen Pai

Yun Suen Pai

Keio University Graduate School of Media Design (KMD)

Yun Suen Pai is a Senior Assistant Professor at the Keio University Graduate School of Media Design (KMD), directing the Physionetic Interactions Group in Embodied Media. His research interest is in XR, HCI, biosignals, and cognition. He graduated from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, with a bachelor's and Master's degree in Engineering. In 2018, he received his Ph.D. from KMD and was a Postdoc at the Empathic Computing Laboratory, New Zealand, until 2021. He collaborated with Airbus, Fujitsu, Google, and so on for works like vision augmentation, and assistive technologies. His current research is the development of cybernetic avatar technology.

Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran

Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran

The University of Auckland

Tamil Selvan is a Research Assistant at the Empathic Computing Laboratory of the University of Auckland. His research involves the creation of novel interactions using radars, human-AI collaboration and human-agent interaction in the group and team settings. He graduated from the University of Auckland with a master's degree recently. Before this, he worked as a research intern at the Augmented Human Lab at the University of Auckland. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology, India

Haimo Zhang

Haimo Zhang

OPPO Research Institute

Haimo Zhang is director of the HCI & Human Factors Lab in OPPO Research Institute. His current effort is to apply advanced interaction technologies and knowledge about human to improve user experiences in existing and emerging usage scenarios. His earlier research spans the wide area of perception and cognition, technology and design. He received his PhD (2015) and Bachelor's (2009) degrees at the National University of Singapore.

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