Conversational Dialogue System Designer and Developer, Usability Expert; currently employed with Omilia Ltd. Member of the Speech and Accessibility Laboratory of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the University of Athens.
My work and research include spoken dialogue systems with focus on dialog management and ontology based NLU, usability and design-for-all, prosody and the interface between prosody and pragmatics. In my PhD I investigated the relationship between prosody and information structure and its implication for improving synthetic speech output in spoken dialogue interfaces. Over the past 10 years, I have participated in the design and implementation of numerous conversational projects in various industry sectors including Financial Institutions, Insurance, Quick Service Restaurants and Telecommunication clients around the world.