ヨキネン クリスティーナ

Kristiina Jokinen is Senior Researcher at AIST AI Research Center in Tokyo Waterfront. Prior to moving to Japan, she was Adjunct Professor and Project Director at University of Helsinki, Finland, and she is Visiting Professor of Intelligent Interfaces at University of Tartu, Estonia. She is Life Member of Clare Hall University of Cambridge.

Her research concerns AI-based human-robot interaction, spoken dialogue systems, and multimodal communication (speech, eye-gaze, gestures, body movement) in the Constructive Dialogue Model framework. She has widely published on the topics, given invited talks, and authored four books. Her current work focuses on social robot applications, attention, awareness and understanding in communication, especially to investigate goal-oriented actions and natural communication in elder-care and educational domains. She served as General Chair for SIGDial-2017, Area Chair in Dialogue for Interspeech-2017, and organised the northernmost dialogue
workshop IWSDS-2016 in Finland.