ISCA Distinguished Lecturers for 2017-2018 are as follows.

For invitations, please take a look at http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/distinguished-lecturers and contact s-nakamura@is.naist.jp)

(1)   Professor Jennifer S. Cole, Linguistics, Northwestern University, USA

1. Individual differences and attentional effects on cue weighting for prosody perception
2. Prosodic entrainment and its relation to dialogue conditions
3. Memory for Prosody

(2)    Professor Laurence Devillers, Artificial Intelligence and Human-Machine Interaction, University of Paris-Sorbonne IV, LIMSI-CNRS, France

1. Towards social and affective relations with a robot : Joke and Empathy of a Robot/ECA
2. Affective and social robotics: engagement and evaluation
3. Affective and social Robotics aligned with Human Values : ethics by design