Flinders University
Dr Richard Leibbrandt
Dr
Richard
Leibbrandt
Flinders University
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/richard.leibbrandt
| Position/s: | Research Associate School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics |
| Phone: | +61 8 82013659 |
| Email: | richard.leibbrandt@flinders.edu.au |
| Location: | Information, Science & Technology (337) |
| Postal address: | GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia |
Biography
Richard is a cognitive scientist with an educational background in psychology and computer science. After working for several years in the software development industry, he completed a PhD at Flinders University in 2009, with a thesis that investigated computational models of the way in which children might be able to learn the parts-of-speech of their first language.
Richard is currently a Research Associate in the School of CSEM, working on the cross-institutional ARC/NHMRC project "From Talking Heads to Thinking Heads" and the ARC Discovery project "Heterodensity neuroimaging techniques for spatiotemporal identification and localization".His primary research interests relate to human and machine learning of language, and to the development of computer systems that are designed around the humans who will use them.
Qualifications
PhD, Flinders University, 2009
MSc in Cognitive Neurolinguistics, University of Essex, 2000
BSocSci (Hons) in Psychology, University of Cape Town, 1996
BSc (Hons) in Computer Science, University of Stellenbosch, 1994
BSc, University of Stellenbosch, 1992
Teaching
Research and supervision
Research expertise
- Artificial intelligence and image processing
- Cognitive science
Research interests
- Computational Psycholinguistics & Cognitive Linguistics
- Language & Learning Technology
- Assistive & Educational Technologies
- Human Factors and Evaluation
- Human Factors Engineering
- Emotion and Expression, Gaze and Gesture
- Cognitive Workload and Situation Awareness
- Audio-Visual Brain Computer Interface
- Information Retrieval & Visualisation
Supervisory interests
- Cognitive science
- Computational models of language acquisition
- Pedagogical Educational Teaching Agents - Teaching Head
RHD research supervision
Current
Associate supervisor:
Artificial Intelligence (3);
Publications
Book chapters
Anderson, T.A.F., Chen, Z.-H., Wen, Y.-F., Milne, M., Atyabi, A., Treharne, K., et al. (2012). Thinking Head MulSeMedia: A Storytelling Environment for Embodied Language Learning. In George Ghinea, Frederic Andres and Stephen Gulliver, ed. Multiple Sensorial Media Advances and Applications: New Developments in MulSeMedia. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global, pp. 182-203. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-821-7.ch009.
Milne, M.K., Luerssen, M., Leibbrandt, R., Lewis, T. and Powers, D. (2011). Embodied Conversational Agents for Education in Autism. In Mohammad-Reza Mohammadi, ed. A Comprehensive Book on Autism Spectrum Disorders. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech, pp. 387-412. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/18688.
Milne, M.K., Luerssen, M., Lewis, T., Leibbrandt, R. and Powers, D. (2011). Designing and Evaluating Interactive Agents as Social Skills Tutors for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In Diana Perez-Marin and Ismael Pascual-Nieto, ed. Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices. Hershey, USA: IGI Global, pp. 23-48. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-617-6.ch002.
Refereed journal articles
Pfitzner, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E. and Powers, D.M. (2009). Characterization and evaluation of similarity measures for pairs of clusterings. Knowledge and Information Systems, 19(3), pp.361-394. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10115-008-0150-6.
Refereed conference papers
Treharne, K., Powers, D. and Leibbrandt, R. (2012). Optimising Visual and Textual in Search User Interfaces. In V Farrell, G Farrell, C Chua, W Huang, R Vasa & C Woodward, ed. Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference. OzCHI '12. pp. 616-619. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2414536.2414629.
Leibbrandt, R. and Powers, D.M. (2012). Robust Induction of Parts-of-Speech in Child-Directed Language by Co-Clustering of Words and Contexts. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning in NLP. ROBUS-UNSUP 2012. pp. 44-54. [online]. Available from: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W12-0706.
Ali, H., Powers, D., Leibbrandt, R. and Lewis, T.W. (2011). Comparison of Region Based and Weighted Principal Component Analysis and Locally Salient ICA in Terms of Facial Expression Recognition. In Lee, Roger, ed. Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing 2011. Twelfth International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing 2011. pp. 81-89. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22288-7_7.
Powers, D.M., Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., Leibbrandt, R.E., Milne, M.K., Pashalis, J., et al. (2010). MANA for the Ageing. In Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Companionable Dialogue Systems, ACL 2010. Workshop on Companionable Dialogue Systems. pp. 7-12. [online]. Available from: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W10-2702.
Newman, W., Franzel, D., Matsumoto, T., Leibbrandt, R.E., Lewis, T.W., Luerssen, M.H., et al. (2010). Hybrid World Object Tracking For A Virtual Teaching Agent. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2010. WCCI 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. pp. 2244-2252.
Milne, M.K., Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., Leibbrandt, R.E. and Powers, D.M. (2010). Development of a Virtual Agent Based Social Tutor for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2010. WCCI 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. pp. 1555-1563.
Book chapters
Anderson, T.A.F., Chen, Z.-H., Wen, Y.-F., Milne, M., Atyabi, A., Treharne, K., et al. (2012). Thinking Head MulSeMedia: A Storytelling Environment for Embodied Language Learning. In George Ghinea, Frederic Andres and Stephen Gulliver, ed. Multiple Sensorial Media Advances and Applications: New Developments in MulSeMedia. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global, pp. 182-203. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-821-7.ch009.
Milne, M.K., Luerssen, M., Lewis, T., Leibbrandt, R. and Powers, D. (2011). Designing and Evaluating Interactive Agents as Social Skills Tutors for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In Diana Perez-Marin and Ismael Pascual-Nieto, ed. Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices. Hershey, USA: IGI Global, pp. 23-48. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-617-6.ch002.
Milne, M.K., Luerssen, M., Leibbrandt, R., Lewis, T. and Powers, D. (2011). Embodied Conversational Agents for Education in Autism. In Mohammad-Reza Mohammadi, ed. A Comprehensive Book on Autism Spectrum Disorders. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech, pp. 387-412. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/18688.
Refereed journal articles
Pfitzner, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E. and Powers, D.M. (2009). Characterization and evaluation of similarity measures for pairs of clusterings. Knowledge and Information Systems, 19(3), pp.361-394. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10115-008-0150-6.
Refereed conference papers
Treharne, K., Powers, D. and Leibbrandt, R. (2012). Optimising Visual and Textual in Search User Interfaces. In V Farrell, G Farrell, C Chua, W Huang, R Vasa & C Woodward, ed. Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference. OzCHI '12. pp. 616-619. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2414536.2414629.
Leibbrandt, R. and Powers, D.M. (2012). Robust Induction of Parts-of-Speech in Child-Directed Language by Co-Clustering of Words and Contexts. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning in NLP. ROBUS-UNSUP 2012. pp. 44-54. [online]. Available from: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W12-0706.
Ali, H., Powers, D., Leibbrandt, R. and Lewis, T.W. (2011). Comparison of Region Based and Weighted Principal Component Analysis and Locally Salient ICA in Terms of Facial Expression Recognition. In Lee, Roger, ed. Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing 2011. Twelfth International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing 2011. pp. 81-89. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22288-7_7.
Milne, M.K., Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., Leibbrandt, R.E. and Powers, D.M. (2010). Development of a Virtual Agent Based Social Tutor for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2010. WCCI 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. pp. 1555-1563.
Newman, W., Franzel, D., Matsumoto, T., Leibbrandt, R.E., Lewis, T.W., Luerssen, M.H., et al. (2010). Hybrid World Object Tracking For A Virtual Teaching Agent. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2010. WCCI 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. pp. 2244-2252.
Powers, D.M., Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., Leibbrandt, R.E., Milne, M.K., Pashalis, J., et al. (2010). MANA for the Ageing. In Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Companionable Dialogue Systems, ACL 2010. Workshop on Companionable Dialogue Systems. pp. 7-12. [online]. Available from: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W10-2702.
Leibbrandt, R.E. and Powers, D.M. (2010). Frequent Frames as Cues to Part-of-Speech in Dutch: Why Filler Frequency Matters. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2010). pp. 2680-2685.
Milne, M., Powers, D.M. and Leibbrandt, R.E. (2009). Development of a software-based social tutor for children with autism spectrum disorders. In Jesper Kjeldskov, Jeni Paay and Stephen Viller, ed. Conference proceedings?: Australian Conference on Computer Human Interaction (OZCHI 2009). Australian Conference on Computer Human Interaction. pp. 265-268.
Treharne, K., Pfitzner, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E. and Powers, D.M. (2008). A lean online approach to human factors research. In Fillia Makedon, Lynne Baillie, ed. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2008). The 1st International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA).
Leibbrandt, R.E., Luerssen, M.H., Matsumoto, T., Treharne, K., Lewis, T.W., Santi, M.L., et al. (2008). An immersive game-like teaching environment with simulated teacher and hybrid world. In Edmond Prakash, ed. Animation, multimedia, IPTV and edutainment: proceedings of CGAT '08. Animation, multimedia, IPTV and edutainment: Computer Games and Allied Technology (CGAT) Conference. pp. 215-222.
Powers, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E., Pfitzner, D.M., Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., Stevens, K., et al. (2008). Language Teaching in a Mixed Reality Games Environment. In Fillia Makedon, Lynne Baillie, Grammati Pantziou, Ilias Maglogiannis, ed. 1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008. 1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008.
Powers, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E., Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W. and Lawson, M.J. (2008). PETA: a pedagogical embodied teaching agent. In Fillia Makedon, Lynne Baillie, Ilias Maglogiannis, Grammati Pantziou, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Richard Billo, ed. 1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008. 1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008.
Conference publications
Leibbrandt, R.E. and Powers, D.M. (2010). Paradigmatic learning from child-directed speech. In 3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference. 3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference.
Powers, D.M., Ali, H.B. and Leibbrandt, R.E. (2010). Using eigenspaces for facial expression detection: handling person dependent application and minimizing detection error [accepted but withdrawn]. In Malaysian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Malaysian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Luerssen, M.H., Leibbrandt, R.E., Lewis, T.W., Pashalis, J., Treharne, K., Pfitzner, D.M., et al. (2009). MANA - An Embodied Calendar for the Aged. In Thinking Systems Joint Symposium. Thinking Systems Joint Symposium. pp. 127-127.
Luerssen, M.H., Lewis, T.W., Leibbrandt, R.E. and Powers, D.M. (2008). Adaptive multimodal perception for a virtual museum guide. In 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence. 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence. [online]. Available from: http://www.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~jcaug/program.pdf.
Leibbrandt, R.E. and Powers, D.M. (2008). Lexical category induction using lexically-specific templates. In Edited by Harvey Chan, Enkeleida Kapia and Heather Jacob, ed. Supplement to the Proceedings of BUCLD 32. 32nd Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). [online]. Available from: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/proc.html.
Powers, D.M., Leibbrandt, R.E., Santi, M.L. and Luerssen, M.H. (2007). A multimodal environment for immersive language learning - space, time, viewpoint and physics. In Proceedings of Joint HCSNet/HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces. Joint HCSNet-HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces. [online]. Available from: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/wiki/index.php?title=Powers.
Santi, M.L., Leibbrandt, R.E. and Powers, D.M. (2007). Desiderata and Trade-offs in HxI for Immersive Language Learning. In Proceedings of the Joint HCSNet-HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces. Joint HCSNet-HxI Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive Interfaces. [online]. Available from: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/wiki/index.php?title=Li_Santi.
