Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
PhD in Oral Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (May 2023).
I am a researcher investigating the role of virtual reality in public speaking training and how it can affect our voices, gesture and public speaking anxiety.
I also teach public speaking skills with a great focus on training primary and secondary school teachers to be more aware of their role as public speakers and how they can use their skills to impact their students with more creativity, introducing more fun and boosting their students' will to learn and become active participants in their community.
From February 2023 I started developing a new project called VirtuVoce that will build a virtual reality app to empower the voices of young students. You can check it out here:
https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=virtuvoce&origin=GLOBAL_SEARCH_HEADER&sid=24A
Keywords
- Speech and Writing
- Secondary Education
- Virtual reality
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From quiet to confident: A VR tool for loudness training in educational public speaking
Valls-Ratés, Ï. & Niebuhr, O., 1. Sept 2025, 10th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) 22-24 August 2025, Nijmegen, Netherlands. International Speech Communication Association, p. 66-70 14Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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The Impact of Prosody and Gestures on Perceived CEO Charisma and Organizational Crisis Communication Outcomes
Rudeloff, C., Tegtmeier, S., Niebuhr, O. & Valls-Ratés, Ï., 20. Aug 2025, 2025 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm). IEEE, p. 120-124 (IEEE International Professional Communication Conference).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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The young have the power to dream, the old the wisdom to guide: sounding charismatic depends on which generation is listening
Valls-Ratés, Ï. & Niebuhr, O., 25. Apr 2025, Proceedings 51st Annual Meeting of the German Society of Acoustics (DAGA), Copenhagen, Denmark. Dau, T. & Epp, B. (eds.). p. 1061-1064 4 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Gestures and Feet Can Tell Us how You Speak! On the Relationships between Voice and Body Language in VR Public Speeches
Niebuhr, O. & Valls-Ratés, Ï., 30. Jul 2024, 2024 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm). IEEE, p. 96-104 (IEEE International Professional Communication Conference).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Hey, OK, Play! A rough guide for the dynamic design and interplay of multimodal, nonverbal communication signals in embodied voice assistants: Presented at Robotics - Science and Systems Conference Workshop on Embodied Voices, Delft, The Netherlands
Niebuhr, O. & Valls-Ratés, Ï., 15. Jul 2024, p. 1. 9 p.Research output: Contribution to conference without publisher/journal › Paper › Research › peer-review
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Projects
- 2 Finished
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VirtuVoce: Put your voice into play!
Valls-Ratés, Ï. (Project participant)
02/02/2023 → 31/01/2024
Project: Other Government Institutions
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Oralitat: Oralitat - Educational tools and resources for learning to speak in public
Valls-Ratés, Ï. (Project participant)
01/09/2018 → 18/12/2021
Project: Research
Press/Media
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Don't fall in love with the solution - INTERVIEW
05/03/2025
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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VirtuVoce teaches young people public speaking skills through virtual reality
08/11/2023
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media