Doctor Christian Kroos

Doctor Christian Kroos

CASUAL GENERAL,
The MARCS Institute

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD
  • MART

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • The MARCS Institute

Contact

Email:C.Kroos@uws.edu.au
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Publications

Chapters in Books

  • Kroos, C., Herath, D. and Stelarc, X. (2011), 'From Robot Arm to Intentional Agent: The Articulated Head', Robot Arms, Intech open 9789533071602.
  • Fuchs, S., Weirich, M., Kroos, C., Fecher, N., Pape, D. and Koppetsch, S. (2010), 'Time for a Shave? Does Facial Hair Interfere with Visual Speech Intelligibility?', Between the Regular and the Particular in Speech and Language, Peter Lang 9783631586860.
  • Hoole, P., Geumann, A., Kroos, C. and Tillman, H. (2006), 'Kovariation von Zunge und Kiefer bei der Produktion von Konsonanten und was sich daraus u ber phonetische Zielrepr a sentation im Prozess der menschlichen Sprachproduktion folgern l a sst', Sprachproduktion: Informationsvermittlung durch nat u rliche Sprache, Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden .

Journal Articles

  • Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Baker, B., Kroos, C., Harvey, M. and Best, C. (2012), 'Vowel acoustics reliably differentiate three coronal stops of Wubuy across prosodic contexts', Laboratory Phonology, 29.
  • Kroos, C. (2012), 'Evaluation of the measurement precision in three-dimensional Electromagnetic Articulography (Carstens AG500)', Journal of Phonetics, 13.
  • Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Best, C., Kroos, C. and Tyler, M. (2012), 'Second language learners' vocabulary expansion is associated with improved second language vowel intelligibility', Applied Psycholinguistics, 22.
  • Kroos, C., Herath, D. and Stelarc, X. (2012), 'Evoking agency: Attention model and behavior control in a robotic art installation', Leonardo, 7.
  • Galantucci, B., Theisen, C., Gutierrez, E., Kroos, C. and Rhodes, T. (2012), 'The diffusion of novel signs beyond the dyad', Language Sciences, 8.
  • Galantucci, B., Theisen, C., Gutierrez, E., Kroos, C. and Rhodes, T. (2012), 'The diffusion of novel signs beyond the dyad', Language Sciences, 8.
  • Kroos, C. (2012), 'Evaluation of the measurement precision in three-dimensional Electromagnetic Articulography (Carstens AG500)', Journal of Phonetics, 13.
  • Kroos, C., Herath, D. and Stelarc, x. (2012), 'Evoking agency : attention model and behavior control in a robotic art installation', Leonardo, 7.
  • Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Baker, B., Kroos, C., Harvey, M. and Best, C. (2012), 'Vowel acoustics reliably differentiate three coronal stops of Wubuy across prosodic contexts', Laboratory Phonology, 29.
  • Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Best, C., Kroos, C. and Tyler, M. (2012), 'Second language learners' vocabulary expansion is associated with improved second language vowel intelligibility', Applied Psycholinguistics, 22.
  • Antoniou, M., Best, C., Tyler, M. and Kroos, C. (2011), 'Inter-language interference in VOT production by L2-dominant bilinguals: Asymmetries in phonetic code-switching', Journal of Phonetics, 13.
  • Kim, J., Kroos, C. and Davis, C. (2010), 'Hearing a point-light talker: An auditory influence on a visual motion detection task', Perception, 12.
  • Galantucci, B., Kroos, C. and Rhodes, T. (2010), 'The effects of rapidity of fading on communication systems', Interaction Studies, 12.
  • Antoniou, M., Best, C., Tyler, M. and Kroos, C. (2010), 'Language context elicits native-like stop voicing in early bilinguals' productions in both L1 and L2', Journal of Phonetics, 14.
  • Stevens, C., Schubert, E., Wang, S., Kroos, C. and Halovic, S. (2009), 'Moving with and without Music: Scaling and Lapsing in Time in the Performance of Contemporary Dance', Music Perception, 14.
  • Callan, D., Jones, J., Kroos, C., Callan, A. and Vatikiotis-Bateson, E. (2004), 'Multisensory-integration sites identified by perception of spatial wavelets filtered visual speech gesture information', Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12.
  • Munhall, K., Kroos, C. and Vatikiotis-Bateson, E. (2004), 'Spatial frequency requirements for audiovisual speech perception', Perception & Psychophysics, 10.
  • Callan, D., Jones, J., Munhall, K., Callan, A., Kroos, C. and Vatikiotis-Bateson, E. (2003), 'Neural processes underlying perceptual enhancement by visual speech gestures', NeuroReport, 6.
  • Kroos, C., Kuratate, T. and Vatikiotis-Bateson, E. (2002), 'Video-based face motion measurement', Journal of Phonetics, 22.
  • Callan, D., Callan, A., Kroos, C. and Vatikiotis-Bateson, E. (2001), 'Multimodal contribution to speech perception revealed by independent component analysis: a single-sweep EEG case study', Cognitive Brain Research, 5.

Conference Papers

  • Gibert, G., Attina, V., Tiede, M., Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Kroos, C., Kasisopa, B., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E. and Best, C. (2012), 'Multimodal speech animation from electromagnetic articulography data', 20th European Signal processing Conference 2012, Bucharest, Romania.
  • Ying, J., Shaw, J., Kroos, C. and Best, C. (2012), 'Relations between acoustic and articulatory measurements of /l/', Speech Science and Technology Conference 2012, Sydney, Australia.
  • Kroos, C., Bundgaard-Nielsen, R. and Best, C. (2012), 'Now you see it, now you don't - frequency distribution of articulatory information reflected in speech face motion', Speech, Science and Technology Conference 2012, Sydney, Australia.
  • Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Baker, B., Harvey, M., Best, C. and Kroos, C. (2012), 'The perception of coronal stops in Wubuy', Speech Science and Technology Conference 2012, Sydney, Australia.
  • Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Kroos, C. and Best, C. (2012), 'Multimodal speech animation from electromagnetic articulography data', EUSIPCO-2012, Bucharest, Romania.
  • Shaw, J., Kroos, C. and Best, C. (2012), 'Relations between acoustic and articulatory measurements of /l/', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Kroos, C., Bundgaard-Nielsen, R. and Best, C. (2012), 'Now you see it, now you don't : frequency distribution of articulatory information reflected in speech face motion', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Best, C. and Kroos, C. (2012), 'The perception of coronal stops in Wubuy', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Kroos, C. and Best, C. (2012), 'Speech articulator movements recorded from facing talkers using two electromagnetic articulometer systems simultaneously', Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Cancun, Mexico.
  • Kroos, C. (2012), 'Encounters : from talking heads to swarming heads', ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Boston, Mass..
  • Best, C., Kroos, C. and Irwin, J. (2011), 'Do infants detect A->V articulator congruency for non-native click consonants?', International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing, Volterra, Italy.
  • Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Baker, B., Harvey, M., Best, C. and Kroos, C. (2010), 'Prosodic context effects on acoustic differentiation of coronal stops in Wubuy', 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 12) - Gesture as Language - Gesture and Language, New Mexico.
  • Best, C., Kroos, C. and Irwin, J. (2010), 'I can see what you said: Infant sensitivity to articulator congruency between audio-only and silent-video presentations of native and nonnative consonants', 9th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, Japan.
  • Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Kroos, C., Harvey, M., Best, C., Baker, B. and Goldstein, L. (2010), 'A kinematic analysis of temporal differentiation of the four-way coronal stop contrast in Wubuy (Australia)', 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology Conference 2010, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Kroos, C., Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Goldstein, L. and Best, C. (2010), 'Tongue body position differences in the coronal stop consonants of Wubuy', 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2010, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Proctor, M., Proctor, M., Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Best, C., Goldstein, L., Kroos, C. and Harvey, M. (2010), 'Articulatory Modelling of Coronal Stop Contrasts in Wubuy', 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2010, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Herath, D., Kroos, C., Stevens, C., Cavedon, L. and Premaratne, P. (2010), 'Thinking Head: Towards Human Centred Robotics', 11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision. ICARCV2010, Singapore.
  • Halovic, S. and Kroos, C. (2009), 'Facilitating the perception of anger and fear in male and female walkers', Symposium on Mental States, Emotions and their Embodiment, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Kim, J., Davis, C., Kroos, C. and Hill, H. (2009), 'Speaker discriminability for visual speech modes', Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK.
  • Kroos, C. (2009), 'Using sensor orientation information for computational head stabilisation in 3D Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA)', Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK.
  • Kroos, C. and Hogan, K. (2009), 'Visual influence on auditory perception: Is speech special?', 2009 AVSP Conference, Norwich, UK.
  • Kroos, C., Herath, D. and Stelarc, X. (2009), 'The Articulated Head: An Intelligent Interactive Agent as an Artistic Installation', Workshop on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking for Next Intelligent Robots and Systems at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2009, St. Louis, USA.
  • Kroos, C. and Dreves, A. (2008), 'McGurk effect persists with a partially removed visual signal', The ISCA Research and Tutorial Workshop on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP 2008), Moreton Island, Queensland, Australia.
  • Kim, J., Kroos, C. and Davis, C. (2008), 'Hearing a talking face: An auditory influence on a visual detection task', The ISCA Research and Tutorial Workshop on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP 2008), Moreton Island, Queensland, Australia.
  • Stevens, C., Kroos, C., Halovic, S., Chen, J., Schubert, E., Tardieu, J., Paine, G. and + 2 Externals, . (2008), 'Analysis of Contemporary Dance Movement in the Presence and Absence of a Musical Soundscape', 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan.
  • Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Best, C., Tyler, M. and Kroos, C. (2008), 'Evidence of a Near-Merger in Western Sydney Australian English Vowels', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane Australia.
  • Kroos, C. (2008), 'Measurement Accuracy in 3D Electromagnetic Articulography (Carstens AG500)', International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP'08), Strasbourg, France.
  • Kroos, C. and Dreves, A. (2008), 'Does the McGurk effect rely on processing time constraints', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Le, J., Best, C., Tyler, M. and Kroos, C. (2007), 'Effects of Non-native Dialects on Spoken Word Recognition', Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Kroos, C. (2007), 'Auditory-visual speech Analysis: In search of a theory', 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken, Germany.
  • Galantucci, B., Rhodes , T. and Kroos, C. (2006), 'Rapidity Of Fading And The Emergence Of Duality Of Patterning', The Sixth International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang6), Rome.
  • Shiller, D., Kroos, C., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E. and Munhall, K. (2003), 'Exploring the spatial frequency requirements of audio-visual speech using superimposed facial motion', AVSP2003 Conference, St. Jorioz.

Other Publications

  • 2010, 'The Articulated Head pays attention', Recorded Work
  • 2011, 'The Floating Head Experiment', Recorded Work
  • 2012, 'Encounters: From talking heads to swarming heads', Recorded Work

Research

Previous Projects

Title:AHAA! (Analysis of Human Articulate Activities): A Communicative Dynamics Research Facility
Years:2006-09-01 - 2007-08-31
ID:P0015240
UWS Researchers:Catherine Best, Catherine Stevens, Michael Tyler, Christian Kroos, Christopher Davis and Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Dynamic Auditory-Visual Humans
Years:2007-08-06 - 2008-12-31
ID:P0015758
UWS Researchers:Christopher Davis, Denis Burnham, Catherine Best, Roger Dean, Catherine Stevens, Jeesun Kim, Takaaki Kuratate, Christian Kroos, Michael Tyler and Connie So
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:What in the world did she say? Cross-dialect pronunciation differences and their impact on English word recognition
Years:2008-06-17 - 2010-01-16
ID:P00016145
UWS Researchers:Catherine Best and Christian Kroos
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:From Thinking Heads to Swarming Heads
Years:2010-05-28 - 2011-12-25
ID:P00018719
UWS Researchers:Damith Herath, Christian Kroos, Catherine Stevens and X Stelarc
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:The New Science of Learning: Robots learning from Humans, Humans learning from Robots
Years:2009-09-22 - 2011-05-11
ID:P00017331
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham, Catherine Stevens, Christian Kroos, Damith Herath and X Stelarc
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

Supervision

Doctor Kroos is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Previous Supervision

Title:It's not just what you say, but also how you say it: Exploring the Auditory and Visual Properties of Speech Prosody
Field of Research:AUDIO VISUAL STUDIES
Thesis:It's not just what you say, but also how you say it: Exploring the Auditory and Visual Properties of Speech Prosody

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