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I am a Research Fellow in the Interaction Lab in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. Before this, I worked in the Robotics and Embedded Systems Group at the Technical University of Munich and in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

My primary research interest is embodied communication. In particular, I am interested in designing, implementing, and evaluating practical systems supporting embodied interaction with human users, such as embodied conversational agents and multimodal and human-robot dialogue systems.

I am currently working on the ECHOES II project (EPSRC/ESRC TEL; 2009-present), which has the goal of developing a technology-enhanced learning environment in which both typically developing children and children with Asperger's Syndrome can explore and improve social interaction and collaboration skills.


[A word cloud of all of my paper titles; click for larger version]

I previously worked on two EU-funded projects: on the JAST project (2006-2009), which investigated the cognitive, neural, and communicative aspects of joint action, I coordinated the development and evaluation of a human-robot dialogue system; on the COMIC project (2002-2005), I worked on the output-generation and user-modelling components of an embodied multimodal dialogue system.

Selected recent publications

Please see my full list of publications for more details.

Personal

Anyone wanting to stalk me can probably find out all they need from my Facebook and LinkedIn profiles and my blog, so I don't think I need to write much more here. For now, I'll just include a list of links to other interesting pages on the net, along with some older pages that I created a while ago and keep around for sentimental interest.

People

Pastimes