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Mar 1, 2024 Three publications were accepted, one LBR at HRI in Boulder, Colorado. One journal article in Applied Sciences, and one journal article in ACM Transactions on Graphics (upload coming soon).
Oct 1, 2023 I have started as a lecturer at Radboud University, and as a researcher at ConnectedCare.
Aug 1, 2023 We organise the GENEA Challenge and Workshop 2023 at ICMI 2023.
Jul 1, 2023 Our paper ‘“Am I Listening?”, Evaluating the Quality of Generated Data-driven Listening Motion.’ was accepted as a late-breaking report at ICMI 2023 in Paris.
Mar 1, 2022 We organise the GENEA Challenge and Workshop 2022 at ICMI 2022. GENEA stands for Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents. Organised together with Dr. Taras Kucherenko, Dr. Youngwoo Yoon, Carla Viegas, Prof. Gustav Eje Henter and Prof. Zerrin Yumak.
Jan 20, 2022 Our paper ‘A Review of Evaluation Practices of Gesture Generation in Embodied Conversational Agents’ was accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.
Jan 10, 2022 Our paper ‘Cool glasses, where did you get them? Generating visually grounded conversation starters for human-robot dialogue’ was accepted as a late-breaking report at HRI 2022.
Dec 20, 2021 I was awarded a personal travel grant from FWO to visit the division of Speech, Music and Hearing (TMH) at KTH, Stockholm between March and July, 2022.
Oct 21, 2021 Our GENEA (Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behavior for Embodied Agents) Workshop 2021 is happening at ICMI 2021.
Jul 1, 2021 Two papers were accepted at ICMI 2021: HEMVIP: Human Evaluation of Multiple Videos in Parallel and To Rate or Not To Rate: Investigating Evaluation Methods for Generated Co-Speech Gestures.