Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Hutter

Work at ZHAW

Position

Prof. in Computer Science with specialization in DL-based Automatic Speech Recognition, Conversational User Interfaces, Human-Computer Interaction, and UX-Design

Focus

• Automatic Speech Recognition, Spoken Dialog Systems, Language Modelling
• Mobile Usability, User Centered Design
• Speaker Verification
• Software Engineering
• Service Engineering

Teaching

Prof. in Computer Science with specialization in DL-based Automatic Speech Recognition, Conversational User Interfaces, Human-Computer Interaction, and UX-Design

Experience

• Prof. in Computer Science
  ZHAW
  08 / 2002 - today
• Head of the Human-Centered Computing research group at InIT/ZHAW
  ZHAW
  04 / 2005 - 2025
• Founder and Head of the Institute of applied Information Technology InIT/ZHAW
  ZHAW
  04 / 2005 - 02 / 2010
• Lecturer in Computer Science
  Technikum Winterthur / ZHW
  07 / 1998 - 07 / 2002

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Dr. sc. techn. ETH / Computer Engineering
  ETH Zurich
  04 / 1988 - 03 / 1996
• Dipl. El.-Ing. ETH / Electrical Engineering
  ETH Zurich
  10 / 1980 - 07 / 1986

Network

Membership of networks

• ACM
• IEEE
• Winlink
• SwissICT UX

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1709-546X

Social media

LinkedIn

Projects

• Accessible Graphics: Semantic graphic description in PDFs for visually impaired people / Team member / completed
• Monitoring of AV-Media / Project leader / completed
• Accessible Scientific PDFs for All / Team member / completed
• Accessible walking routes / Team member / completed
• Voice Swap / Project leader / completed
• WACS – a service platform for avalanche services / Team member / completed
• Deep-Learning-basierter Spracherkenner mit beschränkten Trainingsdaten / Project leader / completed
• FRIMI App / Project leader / completed
• Age-appropriate design of mobile apps / Team member / completed
• Electronic Crew Flight Pad / Team member / completed
• Platform for the Exchange of Services with developing Countries / Project leader / completed
• Talkalyzer / Team member / completed
• System for an Integral Data-based strategic Asset Controlling of Real Estates / Project leader / completed
• Challenge Earth Activity Plattform / Project leader / completed
• Pipeline for 3D Animation File and Visual Effects Studios / Team member / completed
• WLAN Fingerprinting / Project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Yan, C. et al. (2025) 'Chart accessibility : a review of current alt text generation', IEEE Access, 13, pp. 94040–94056. doi: 10.1109/access.2025.3571626.
• Farahani, A. M. et al. (2025) 'Chart question answering with multimodal graph representation learning and zero-shot classification', Expert Systems with Applications, 270(126508). doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2025.126508.
• Bamdad, M., Hutter, H.-P. and Darvishy, A. (2024) 'InCrowd-VI : a realistic visual–inertial dataset for evaluating simultaneous localization and mapping in indoor pedestrian-rich spaces for human navigation', Sensors, 24(24), p. 8164. doi: 10.3390/s24248164.
• Schmitt-Koopmann, F. et al. (2024) 'MathNet : a data-centric approach for printed mathematical expression recognition', IEEE Access, 12, pp. 76963–76974. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3404834.
• Farahani, A. M. et al. (2023) 'Automatic chart understanding : a review', IEEE Access, 11, pp. 76202–76221. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3298050.
• Mirkazemy, A. et al. (2023) 'Mathematical expression recognition using a new deep neural model', Neural Networks, 167, pp. 865–874. doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2023.08.045.
• Schmitt-Koopmann, F. M. et al. (2022) 'FormulaNet : a benchmark dataset for mathematical formula detection', IEEE Access, 10, pp. 91588–91596. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3202639.

Books, peer-reviewed

• Darvishy, A., Hutter, H.-P. and Seifert, A. (2022) Age-appropriate digital channels. Wiesbaden: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-38446-3.
• Darvishy, A., Hutter, H.-P. and Seifert, A. (2021) Altersgerechte digitale Kanäle. Wiesbaden: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-35501-2.
• Hutter, H.-P. (1997) Comparison of classic and hybrid HMM approaches to speech recognition over telefone lines. Doctoral dissertation. ETH Zurich. doi: 10.3929/ethz-a-001687036.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Sorano, J. et al. (2013) 'Internet of services : telecommunication services evolution', in Evolution of telecommunication services. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 283–325. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-41569-2_14.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Bamdad, M., Hutter, H.-P. and Darvishy, A. (2025) 'Deep learning-powered visual SLAM aimed at assisting visually impaired navigation', in Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP. SciTePress, pp. 758–765. doi: 10.5220/0013338200003912.
• D'Intino, F. and Hutter, H.-P. (2025) 'Advancing STT for low-resource real-world speech', in Degen, H. and Ntoa, S. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in HCI. Cham: Springer, pp. 290–309. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-93429-2_20.
• Schmitt-Koopmann, F. M. et al. (2025) 'Towards more accessible scientific PDFs for people with visual impairments : step-by-step PDF remediation to improve tag accuracy', in Yamashita, N. et al. (eds) CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 48. doi: 10.1145/3706598.3713084.
• Darvishy, A. et al. (2023) 'A new conversational interaction concept for document creation and editing on mobile devices for visually impaired users', in Zallio, M. (ed.) Human Factors in Accessibility and Assistive Technology. AHFE International, pp. 33–40. doi: 10.54941/ahfe1003651.
• Witzel, L. et al. (2023) 'On-site and remote crowdsourcing of accessibility data for people with mobility impairments : a case study in Zurich's District 1', in Ahram, T. and Taiar, R. (eds) Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies (IHIET-AI 2023): Artificial Intelligence and Future Applications. AHFE International, pp. 242–253. doi: 10.54941/ahfe1002949.
• Darvishy, A., Hutter, H.-P. and Mosimann, R. (2022) 'Towards personalized accessible routing for people with mobility impairments', in Miesenberger, K. et al. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. Cham: Springer, pp. 215–220. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-08648-9_25.
• Darvishy, A., Roth, S. and Hutter, H.-P. (2021) 'Sprachassistent für Hotelinformationen', in Kempter, G. and Ritter, W. (eds) Grenzüberschreitende Reallabore für Assistenztechnik : Beiträge zum Usability Day XIX. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers, pp. 102–108.
• Ulasik, M. A. et al. (2021) 'ZHAW-CAI : ensemble method for Swiss German speech to Standard German text', in Benites de Azevedo e Souza, F. et al. (eds) Proceedings of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference 2021. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-23889.
• Hutter, H.-P., Roth, S. and Darvishy, A. (2021) 'Service für barrierefreie Ferien im Bodenseeraum', in Kempter, G. and Ritter, W. (eds) Grenzüberschreitende Reallabore für Assistenztechnik : Beiträge zum Usability Day XIX. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers, pp. 90–101.
• Hutter, H.-P. et al. (2020) 'Service design for accessible tourism', in Antona, M. and Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Practice. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-49108-6_29.
• Darvishy, A. et al. (2020) 'Touch explorer : exploring digital maps for visually impaired people', in Miesenberger, K. et al. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. Springer, pp. 427–434. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58796-3_50.
• Jembu Rajkumar, A. et al. (2020) 'PDF accessibility of research papers : what tools are needed for assessment and remediation?', in Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i at Manoa, pp. 4185–4194. doi: 10.24251/HICSS.2020.512.
• Hutter, H.-P. and Darvishy, A. (2019) 'Barrierefreier Tourismus im Bodenseeraum', in Friedrich, P. and Fuchs, D. (eds) 6. Ambient Medicine® Forum "Assistive Technik für selbstbestimmtes Wohnen" (Band 6) : 19. - 20. Februar 2019, Tagungsband. Göttingen: Cuvillier, pp. 165–170.
• Darvishy, A., Hutter, H.-P. and Frei, J. (2019) 'Making mobile map applications accessible for visually impaired people', in Ahram, T. et al. (eds) Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies : Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies (IHIET 2019), August 22-24, 2019, Nice, France. Cham: Springer, pp. 396–400. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-25629-6_61.
• Hutter, H.-P. and Darvishy, A. (2019) 'Accessible tourism around Lake Constance', in Promberger, K., Piazolo, F., and Kempter, G. (eds) Innovative solutions for an ageing society : proceedings of SMARTER LIVES meets uDay 19. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers, pp. 93–97.
• Darvishy, A. and Hutter, H.-P. (2018) 'Recommendations for age-appropriate mobile application design', in Advances in Design for Inclusion. Cham: Springer, pp. 241–253. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-60597-5_22.
• Darvishy, A. and Hutter, H.-P. (2017) 'Recommendations for age-appropriate mobile application design', in Harnessing the power of technology to improve lives. IOS Press, pp. 676–686. doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-798-6-676.
• Hutter, H.-P. and Ahlenstorf, A. (2017) 'New mobile service development process', in Marcus, A. and Wang, W. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability: Designing Pleasurable Experiences : 6th International Conference, DUXU 2017, Held as Part of HCI International 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 9-14, 2017, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, pp. 221–232. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-58637-3_17.
• Hutter, H.-P. and Darvishy, A. (2017) 'Barrierefreier Tourismusraum Bodensee', in Kempter, G. and Hämmerle, I. (eds) Beiträge zum Usability Day XV : Umgebungsunterstütztes Leben, 22. Juni 2017. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers, pp. 91–94. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-2782.
• Hutter, H.-P. et al. (2016) 'Service platform for the exchange of services with developing countries', in Tech4Dev 2016 : UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development Int. Conference 2016. Lausanne: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, p. 127.
• Darvishy, A., Nevill, M. and Hutter, H.-P. (2016) 'Automatic paragraph detection for accessible PDF documents', in Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., and Peňáz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. Cham: Springer, pp. 367–372. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-41264-1_50.
• Kokemor, I. and Hutter, H.-P. (2016) 'Aspect-oriented approach for user interaction logging of iOS applications', in Aaron, M. (ed.) Design, user experience, and usability: technological contexts : 5th international conference, DUXU 2016, held as part of HCI international 2016, Toronto, Canada, July 17–22, 2016, proceedings, part III. New York: Springer, pp. 45–56. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-40406-6.
• Doblies, L. et al. (2014) 'PAVE : a web application to identify and correct accessibility problems in PDF documents', in Miesenberger, K. et al. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs : ICCHP 2014 Proceedings, Part I. Paris: Springer, pp. 185–192. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8.
• Darvishy, A. and Hutter, H.-P. (2013) 'Comparison of the effectiveness of different accessibility plugins based on important accessibility criteria', in Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services for Quality of Life : 7th International Conference, UAHCI 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part III. Springer, pp. 305–310. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-39194-1_36.
• Darvishy, A. et al. (2010) 'A flexible software architecture concept for the creation of accessible PDF documents', in Computers Helping People with Special Needs. Springer, pp. 47–52. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14097-6_8.
• Darvishy, A. et al. (2008) 'Personal mobile assistant for air passengers with disabilities (PMA)', in Computers Helping People with Special Needs. Springer, pp. 1129–1134. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-70540-6_169.
• Hutter, H.-P., Jung, U. and Müggler, T. (2008) 'Augmented mobile tagging', in Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services. Association for Computing Machinery.
• Hutter, H.-P. and Tönz, R. (2005) 'New concept for designing multimodal user interfaces', in Aside 2005 : Applied Spoken Language Interaction in Distributed Environments : 10th and 11th November 2005, Aalborg University, Denmark. Ålborg Universitet.
• Hutter, H.-P. (1995) 'Comparison of a new hybrid connectionist-SCHMM approach with other hybrid approaches for speech recognition', in 1995 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Detroit: IEEE, pp. 3311–3314. doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.1995.479693.

Other publications

• Hutter, H.-P. and Jekat, S. J. (2010) 'Evaluation von sprachverstehenden und -generierenden Systemen', in Carstensen, K.-U. et al. (eds) Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie : eine Einführung. Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, pp. 659–678. doi: 10.1007/978-3-8274-2224-8.
• Darvishy, A. et al. (2008) Personal mobile assistant for air passengers with disabilities (PMA). Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-108.
• Hutter, H.-P. (2006) 'Mobile Anwendungen mit GeoTags', in WinLink Fachtagung, Winterthur, 2006.
• Hutter, H.-P. (2004) 'Grundlagen der Spracherkennung mit Hidden-Markov-Modellen', Design & Elektronik, 2004.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• F. Bimbot, M. Blomberg, L. Boves, D. Genoud, H.-P. Hutter, C. Jaboulet, J. Koolwaaij, J. Lindberg, and J.-B. Pierrot, “An overview of the CAVE project research activities in speaker verification”, Speech Communication, vol. 31, no. 2-3, pp. 158–180, 2000.
• F. Bimbot, H.-P. Hutter, C. Jaboulet, J. Koolwaaij, J. Lindberg, and J.-B. Pierrot, “An overview of the CAVE project research activities in speaker verification”, in RLA2C, pp. 215–220, April 1998.
• J. Lindberg, J. Koolwaaij, H.-P. Hutter, D. Genoud, M. Blomberg, J.-B. Pierrot, and F. Bimbot, “Techniques for a priori decision threshold estimation in speaker verification”, in RLA2C, pp. 89–92, April 1998.
• J.-B. Pierrot, J. Lindberg, J. Koolwaaij, H.-P. Hutter, D. Genoud, M. Blomberg, and F. Bimbot, “A comparison of a priori threshold setting procedures for speaker verification in the CAVE project”, in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 1, pp. 125–128, 1998.
• F. Bimbot, H.-P. Hutter, C. Jaboulet, J. Koolwaaij, J. Lindberg, and J.-B. Pierrot, “Speaker verification in the telephone network: research activities in the CAVE project” in Proceedings EUROSPEECH ’97, vol. 2, pp. 971–974, 1997.
• D. James, H.-P. Hutter, and F. Bimbot, “CAVE speaker verification project – experiments on the YOHO and SESP corpora”, in Proceedings 1st Intl. Conference on Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication (J. Bigu ̈n, G. Chollet, and B. Borgefors, eds.), pp. 385–394, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 1997.
• D. James, H.-P. Hutter, and F. Bimbot, “Cave - speaker verification in banking and telecom- munications”, in Proceedings of the Ubilab Conference ’96, Zurich, pp. 153–162, 1
• H.-P. Hutter, Comparison of Classic and Hybrid HMM Approaches to Speech Recognition over Telephone Lines. TIK-Schriftenreihe No. 15, Diss. ETH Zurich No. 11662, ETH Zurich, 1996.
• H.-P. Hutter, “Comparison of a new hybrid connectionist-SCHMM approach with other hybrid approaches for speech recognition,” in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 5, pp. 3311–3314, May 1995.
• H.-P. Hutter, “Comparison of a new hybrid connectionist-SCHMM approach with other hybrid approaches for speech recognition,” in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 5, pp. 3311–3314, May 1995.
• H.-P. Hutter and B. Pfister, “Neuartiger hybrider SKHMM/KNN-Ansatz für die Spracherkennung,” in Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (K. Fellbaum, ed.), Studien- texte zur Sprachkommunikation, Heft 11, pp. 90–97, Technische Universit ̈at Berlin, October 1994.

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