Technologies for Inclusive Education: Beyond Traditional Integration Approaches

Zoraida Callejas Carrión is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages and Computer Systems at the Technical School of Computer Science and Telecommunications of the University of Granada (Spain). She completed a PhD in Computer Science at University of Granada in 2008 and has been a visiting researcher in University of Ulster (Belfast, UK), Technical University of Liberec (Liberec, Czech Republic) University of Trento (Trento, Italy), and Technical University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany). Her research activities have been mostly related to speech technologies and in particular to the investigation of dialogue systems. Her results have been published in several international journals and conferences. She has participated in numerous research projects, and is a member of several research associations focused on speech processing and human-computer interaction.

Ramón López-Cózar Delgado is Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Telecommunications of the University of Granada (Spain). His main research interests in the last 15 years include spoken and multimodal dialogue systems, focusing on speech processing and dialogue management. He has coordinated several research projects, has published a number of journal and conference papers, and has been invited speaker at several scientific events addressing these topics. In 2005 he published the book Spoken, Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogue Systems: Development and Assessment (Wiley). Recently he has co-edited the book Human-Centric Interfaces for Ambient Intelligence (Elsevier Academic Press, 2010), in which he has coordinated the section concerning speech processing and dialogue management. He is a member of ISCA (International Speech Communication Association), FoLLI (Association for Logic, Language and Information), AIPO (Spanish Society on Human-Computer Interaction) and SEPLN (Spanish Society on Natural Language Processing).