Auriane Boudin

Postdoctoral Researcher

Interdisciplinary Study of Human Interaction

auriane.boudin@univ-amu.fr

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Presentation

I hold a PhD in Linguistics, specializing in Computer Science, from Aix-Marseille Université. My doctoral research was supervised by Pr. Philippe Blache, Pr. Magalie Ochs, Pr. Roxane Bertrand, and Dr. Stéphane Rauzy. I also collaborated with Pr. Louis-Philippe Morency during a research stay at Carnegie Mellon University. I was funded by the ILCB and affiliated with both the Laboratoire Parole et Langage and the Laboratoire d'Informatique et Systèmes.

My research adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human-to-human and human-computer interactions. During my PhD, I focused on conversational feedback and its role in communication. Currently, I am interested in exploring individual variability and adaptability in conversation, particularly from the perspective of speaker style and alignment mechanisms, integrating a multimodal and interdisciplinary approach.

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I would be delighted to connect with anyone interested in discussing my research or exploring collaboration opportunities. Please don't hesitate to reach out to me at auriane.boudin@univ-amu.fr

Experience & Education

Experience

  • 03/2025–present Postdoctoral Position
    Project: The role of acoustic markers in pre-lexical processing: effects of voice modulation and rime frequency.
    Pr. Amandine Michelas & Pr. Sophie Dufour - LPL.
  • 12/2024–02/2025 Postdoctoral Position
    Project: Assessing multimodal alignment during conversations.
    Pr. Philippe Blache - LPL, LIS, ILCB.

Degree

  • 2021-2024 Ph.D. in Linguistics and Computer Science (Aix-Marseille Univ, France).
    Title: Exploring Conversation Through Feedback: A cross-disciplinary approach.
  • 2019-2021 Master’s Degree with high honors in Cognitive Sciences
    Language Communication and Brain (Aix-Marseille Univ, France).
  • 2016-2019 Bachelor's Degree with honors in Linguistics (Aix-Marseille Univ, France).

Academic Internships

  • 2023 - Visiting Scholar at Multicomp Lab (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA).
    Supervisors: Louis-Philippe Morency.
  • 2021 - Development of a generic conversational feedback model at Laboratoire Parole et Langage (Aix-en-Provence, France).
    Supervisors: Philippe Blache, Roxane Bertrand, Magalie Ochs, Stéphane Rauzy.
  • 2020 - Comparative study of storytelling situations involving 1) a human and 2) a robot at Laboratoire Parole et Langage (Aix-en-Provence, France).
    Supervisors: Noel Nguyen, Giusy Cirillo.

Publications

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Teaching

Supervisions

Supervision of a Master’s Degree Student

  • 2022 Arthur Pellet-Rostaing, Second year of Master’s Degree. Project: A multimodal model for estimating engagement at the turn level in human-human conversations (714h). Graduated: July 2022.

Supervision of Bachelor’s Degree Students

  • 2024 Ivan Derban, Bachelor of Technology in Multimedia and Internet Professions, Aix-Marseille Univ. Project: Simulating the listening behavior of an animated conversational agent (490h).
  • 2023 Raphael Candela, Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, Aix-Marseille Univ. Project: Development of Audio-Visual Stimuli for the Study of Generic and Specific Feedback Substitution (280h).

Supervision of annotators team

  • 2023 Supervision and coordination of 2 annotators (150h each) to fully annotate TRUENESS corpus.
  • 2022 Supervision and coordination of 3 annotators (300h each) to fully annotate SMYLE corpus.
  • 2021 Supervision and coordination of 2 annotators (60h each) to annotate feedback, nods, gaze, and eyebrows on the PACO and Cheese! corpora.