Julian Hough

Associate Professor
Future Interactive Technologies Lab
Department of Computer Science
Computational Foundry
Swansea University

Contact: julian.hough@swansea.ac.uk

News

• April 2023: JOB OPPORTUNITY: 3-year Post-doc Research Officer in Interactive Robotics in VR on the FLUIDITY project at Swansea University

  • See the FLUIDITY project's objectives.
  • Email me at julian.hough@swansea.ac.uk with an Expression of Interest and CV.
• February 2023: I have moved to Swansea University! 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) and researcher in the Future Interactive Technologies (FIT) lab.

About Me

I'm a researcher 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, which I try to explain using the 1000 most common words of English on #UPGOERFIVE. 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.