CV
Education:
(2008) PhD in Computer Science at the University of Paris 8 (*)
(2003) Degree in Computer Science at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (* I also obtained a PhD in Cognitive Psychology at
the University of Rome "La Sapienza, in "co-tutelle" with Univ. of Paris 8)
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Academic experience:
2008 – today: postdoctoral researcher at the INFOMUS lab, University of Genova, Italy 2004 – 2008: PhD in Computer Science at
the University of Paris 8 supervised by Prof. Catherine Pelachaud. PhD in Cognitive Psychology at University of Rome "La Sapienza" supervised by Prof. Isabella Poggi
2003: research work on ECAs at University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy Work experience:
1998-99: programmer at MEC Informatica s.r.l., Rome, Italy
1997: programmer at Inmatica S.p.a., Rome, Italy
1995: programmer at Tecno Multimediale, Rome, Italy
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Academic activities:
Teaching: Multimodal Systems for Human-Computer Interaction (2012) - Univ. of Genova: 25 hrs XML Language (2011) - Scuola Telecomunicazione FF.AA., Chiavari: 59 hrs Multimedia systems and interfaces (2010-2011) - Univ. of Genova: 15 hrs
Multimodal Systems for Human-Computer Interaction (2010-2011) - Univ. of Genova: 25 hrs
C++ Language (2010) - Scuola Telecomunicazione FF.AA., Chiavari: 48 hrs
C++ Language (2009) - Scuola Telecomunicazione FF.AA., Chiavari: 32 hrs
C Language (January to April 2007) - Univ. of Paris 8: 36 hrs Guest Editor:
Special Issue of the Journal
on Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI), Selected contributions from
"eNTERFACE’09", Springer, 2010
Proceedings of the 5th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal
Interfaces (eNTERFACE/09), ISBN 978-88-901344-7-0, Genova, Italy, 2010
Speaker at conferences, seminars: AVI 2012: "Embodied cooperation using mobile devices: presenting and evaluating the Sync4All application"
ACII 2011: "Evaluating the communication of emotion via expressive gesture copying behaviour in an embodied humanoid agent"
PRAIxHBA 2009: "Modeling expressive individual and collective behavior" AAMAS 2008:
"Distinctiveness in multimodal behaviors"
IVA 2007:
"Dynamic behavior qualifiers for conversational agents"
Gesture Workshop 2007:
"Implementing distinctive behavior for conversational agents"
"Analysis of emotional gestures from videos for the generation of expressive behaviour in an ECA"
AISB'07 - Artificial and Ambient Intelligence:
"An expressive ECA showing complex emotions"
MIRAGE 2007 Conference, INRIA, Versailles:
"Copying Behaviour of Expressive Motion"
Humaine WP3 Workshop on Emotional Gestures, Genève, January 8th to January 10th 2007:
"Representation of gestures for an expressive ECA"
"Real-time analysis and synthesis of emotional gestures from video"
Seminar at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", April 2007:
"Implementing distinctive behavior for conversational agents"
Humaine Third Summer School, Casa Paganini, Genova, 22 September-28 September 2006:
"Annotation of multimodal behavior"
Seminar at NII, Tokyo, February 2006:
"Using the Greta agent"
Gesture Workshop 2005:
"From acoustic cues to expressive ECAs"
"Modelling Expressive Gesture Synthesis for ECAs"
AISB 2004:
"Speaking with Emotions"
11ème Journée des utilisateurs Vicon, 2004
Humaine Workshop in Santorini:
"Animation improvements and face creation tool for ECAs"
Reviewer:
- IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 2012
- ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- ICMI 2012, 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (link)
- ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
- Intetain 2011 (link)
- AFFINE 2010, 3rd International Workshop On Affective Interaction in Natural Environments (link)
- IADIS Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2010 (link)
- LREC Workshop on Multimodal Corpora 2010 (link)
- Mobile Network Applications (ISSN: 1383-469X, 1572-8153) (link)
- International Computer Music Conference 2009 (link)
- Special issue "Real-Time Affect Analysis and Interpretation: Closing
the Affective Loop in Virtual Agents and Robots" of the journal Journal
of Multimodal User Interfaces (link)
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- LREC Workshop on Multimodal Corpora 2008 (link)
- IVA 2007 (link)
- Advances in Human-Computer Interaction (link)
- International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents 2005 (link)
- SIGGRAPH 2004 (link)
- CASA 2004 (link)
Program Committee: - Intelligent Virtual Agents 2013
- 5th International Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments (AFFINE) @ ACII 2013
- AFFINE 2010, 3rd International Workshop On Affective Interaction in Natural Environments
- IADIS Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2010
- LREC Workshop on Multimodal Corpora 2010
- eNTERFACE 2009
- 1st and 3rd Workshop on Social Behavior in Music, 2009
- Technical Program Committee of Intetain 2011
Organizer:
- 3rd Workshop on Social Behavior in Music, 2012 (link)
- tanGO Touching Music, Closing Session of FET11, Budapest, May 2011
- Technical Program Committee of Intetain 2011 (link)
- eNTERFACE 2009 (link)
- 1st Workshop on Social Behavior in Music, 2009 (link)
- September 2007: logistic co-organization of the "Intelligent Virtual Agents" Conference, organized by Catherine Pelachaud and Jean-Claude Martin in Paris
- March 2005: logistic co-organization of the "Emotion in Interaction" Workshop, organized by Catherine Pelachaud for the European Network of Excellence HUMAINE in Paris (link)
Summer School teacher: - Summer School ISSSM, l'University of Jyväskylä, Finland, August 2011
Summer School attendee: - July 2012 - ENTERFACE 2012 - The 8th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces
- July 13 - August 7, 2009
ENTERFACE 2009 - The 5th International Summer School on Multimodal Interfaces, Genova, Italy - September 22-28, 2006
HUMAINE Summer School 2006, Genova, Italy - July 2-8, 2006
CNRS Summer School: "Théorie, modèles, architectures logicielles pour le développement des systèmes de dialogue et d’interaction", Autrans (Isère), France
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