Research Interests

Human-computer Interaction, Speech Interfaces, Discourse, Natural Language Generation/Processing, Knowledge Representation, Artificial Intelligence

Current Projects

Context-Aware Office Assistant -- When People at Threshold

Previous Projects

Real-Time Collaborative Story-telling System -- Renga

Tsinghua Chinese-English Machine Translation

Publications

 

1. H. Yan and J. Cassell, "Producing Lifelike Gesture in Embodied Conversational Agents", in Gestures: Meaning and Use Conference, Oporto, Portugal, April, 2000. 
2. H. Yan and T. Selker, "Context-Aware Office Assistant", in the proceedings of 2000 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2000. 
3. J. Cassell, T.Bickmore, H. Vilhjįlmsson, and H. Yan, "More Than Just a Pretty Face: Affordances of Embodiment", in Proceedings of 2000 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2000. 
4. J. Cassell, T., Bickmore, L., Campbell, H., Vilhjalmsson, H. Yan, (to appear). "Conversation as a System Framework: Designing Embodied Conversational Agents", in Cassell, J. et al. (eds.), Embodied Conversational Agents. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999.
5. J. Cassell, H. Vilhjįlmsson, K. Chang, T. Bickmore, L. Campbell, H. Yan. (1999). "Requirements for an Architecture for Embodied Conversational Characters." Computer Animation and Simulation '99 (Eurographics Series). Vienna, Austria: Springer Verlag.
6. J. Cassell, T. Bickmore, M. Billinghurst, L. Campbell, K. Chang, H. Vilhjįlmsson, H. Yan, "Embodiment in Conversational Interfaces: Rea", in Proceedings of CHI99, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999.
7. J. Cassell, T. Bickmore, M. Billinghurst, L. Campbell, K. Chang, H. Vilhjįlmsson, and H. Yan, "An Architecture for Embodied Conversational Characters." Proceedings of the First Workshop on Embodied Conversational Characters, October 12-15, Tahoe City, CA, 1998.
8. H. Yan, "A Chinese-English Machine Translation System Based on Stratified Analysis of Syntax and Semantics", Master’s thesis, Tsinghua University, 1998.
9. H. Yan and S. X. Chen, "The Strategy of Processing and Analysis of Chinese and Mechanism of Rule Processing in THCEMT 1.0", in The Studies of Chinese Language and Characters in the Epoch of Computer, Z.S. Luo and L.L. Yuan, editors, Tsinghua University Press, 1996.
10. H. Yan, Y.J. Gu and S.X. Chen, "System Design of A Chinese-English Machine Translation System -- THCEMT Version 1.0", in The Development and Applications of Computational Linguistics, L.W. Chen and Q.Yuan, editors, Tsinghua University Press, 1995.

 

Email me: yanhao@media.mit.edu

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