Ginevra Castellano 

Since September 2011 I am a Birmingham Fellow / senior researcher at the HCI Centre and the School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Birmingham.

Previously I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Vision and Interaction Group at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in Queen Mary University of London, where I have been working in the EU FP7 LIREC (LIving with Robots and intEractive Companions) project, which explored long-term social relationships with artificial companions.

I obtained my Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of Genoa, Italy, where I worked since 2005 at the InfoMus Lab, Department of Communications, Computer and System Sciences, in the EU FP6 HUMAINE (Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotion) project. My research in HUMAINE focused on computational models for emotion recognition based on movement expressivity analysis and on the design and evaluation of multimodal affective interactive systems. 

My research interests are in the area of affective behavioural computing and robotics, and include automatic analysis of social behaviour, context-based affect recognition, social robotics, and evaluation of affective interaction. 

I am a member of the Management Board of the HUMAINE Association. I am the co-founder, with Christopher Peters, Kostas Karpouzis and Jean-Claude Martin, of the AFFINE (Affective Interaction in Natural Environments) events, which include annual workshops and special sessions dedicated to the theme of affective multimodal interaction to close the loop between user and virtual agents and robots.

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