Citadel

dr. M. Theune (Mariet)

Assistant Professor
EEMCS-CS-HMI
Citadel H223
m.theune@utwente.nl
+31534893817
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I studied linguistics/computational linguistics at the University of Utrecht (1995), and completed a PhD degree in natural language generation at the Eindhoven University of Technology (2000). After that I joined the University of Twente as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2003, I obtained a personal research grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to investigate the joint generation of language and gesture by embodied conversational agents, and I was appointed as an assistant professor at the research group Human Media Interaction.

Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • User
    • Conversational Agent
    • Robot
    • Roles
    • Contexts
    • Models
    • Virtual Humans
    • Serious Game

Organisations

Having a background in (computational) linguistics, I am interested in interaction with technology through language. This involves computers that can understand and produce human language (natural language processing and generation). For embodied conversational agents --both virtual characters and robots-- this also includes nonverbal behaviour. Interactive storytelling and serious games are also within my field of interest.

Publications

2024
Exploring Lexical Alignment in a Price Bargain ChatbotIn CUI '24: Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, Article 40. Association for Computing Machinery. Zhao, Z., Theune, M., Srivastava, S. & Braun, D.https://doi.org/10.1145/3640794.3665576Trust in a Human-Computer Collaborative Task With or Without Lexical AlignmentIn UMAP Adjunct '24: Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 189-194). Association for Computing Machinery. Srivastava, S., Theune, M., Catalá, A. & Reed, C.https://doi.org/10.1145/3631700.3664868From Potential to Practice: Intellectual Humility During Search on Debated TopicsIn CHIIR '24: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp. 130-141). ACM Publishing. Rieger, A., Bredius, F., Theune, M. & Pera, M. S.https://doi.org/10.1145/3627508.3638306Examining Lexical Alignment in Human-Agent Conversations with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 ModelsIn Chatbot Research and Design: 7th International Workshop, CONVERSATIONS 2023 Oslo, Norway, November 22–23, 2023 Revised Selected Papers (pp. 94-114). Springer. Wang, B., Theune, M. & Srivastava, S.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54975-5_6
2023
An embodied conversational agent coach to support societal participation learning by low-literate users, 1215-1241. Schouten, D. G. M., Deneka, A. A., Theune, M., Neerincx, M. A. & Cremers, A. H. M.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-021-00865-5Nudges to mitigate confirmation bias during web search on debated topics: support vs. manipulation (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Rieger, A., Draws, T., Theune, M. & Tintarev, N.https://doi.org/10.1145/3635034Vocabulary Acquisition in New and Learned Contexts Using Immersive Virtual RealityIn Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Games Based Learning (pp. 69-77). Bergsma, T., Theune, M. & Delden, R. v.https://doi.org/10.34190/ecgbl.17.1.1499Eliciting User Self-disclosure using Reciprocity in Human-Voicebot ConversationsIn CUI '23: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, Article 50. ACM Publishing. Harmsen, W. N., Waterschoot, J. V., Hendrickx, I. & Theune, M.https://doi.org/10.1145/3571884.3604301The Role of Lexical Alignment in Human Understanding of Explanations by Conversational AgentsIn IUI '23: 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 423–435). ACM Publishing. Srivastava, S., Theune, M. & Catala, A.https://doi.org/10.1145/3581641.3584086
2022
Karen, the Interrupting CustomerIn HHAI2022: Augmenting Human Intellect: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (pp. 263-265). IOS. Van Den Bos, M., Dzhondzhorova, G., Frincu, I., Velner, E., Beelen, T. & Theune, M.https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA220211

Research profiles

The courses I teach mostly deal with language and computers (Natural Language Processing and Conversational Agents). I also supervise numerous Bachelor and Master students in thesis research and other projects.

Affiliated study programs

Courses academic year 2023/2024

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Courses academic year 2022/2023

My current projects focus on the question how we can automatically generate language (either text or dialogue) in different styles and in an adaptive fashion. I am involved the ALP project on affective language generation (together with Tilburg University); the POSTHCARD project on narrative simulations for Alzheimer caregivers, and as a project leader in the Data2Game project on adaptive and personalized serious games.

Address

University of Twente

Citadel (building no. 09), room H223
Hallenweg 15
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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