Ginevra Castellano 

Activities

• Chair and organiser, with Ruth Aylett, Ana Paiva, Bogdan Raducanu and Marc Hanheide, of the Special Session on “Long-Term Socially Perceptive and Interactive Robot Companions: Challenges and Future Perspectives”, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 11), Alicante, Spain, November 2011.
• Organiser (with Kostas Karpouzis, Christopher Peters, Louis-Philippe Morency, Laurel Riek and Georgios Yannakakis) of the 4th AFFINE (Affective Interaction in Natural Environments) Workshop 2011, a satellite event of ICMI 2011.
• Organiser (with Kostas Karpouzis, Jean-Claude Martin, Louis-Philippe Morency, Christopher Peters and Laurel Riek) of the 3rd AFFINE (Affective Interaction in Natural Environments) Workshop 2010, a satellite event of ACM Multimedia 2010.
• Organiser, with Ruth Aylett and Steve Renals, of the First Summer School on Affective Computing and Social Signal Processing (ACSSP10), Edinburgh, 30th August - 1st September 2010. Sponsored by the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA), the HUMAINE Association, and the EU FP7 SSPNet and LIREC projects.
• Chair (with Jean-Claude Martin, John Murray, Kostas Karpouzis and Christopher Peters) of the Workshop on Affect-Aware Virtual Agents and Social Robots (AFFINE'09), held jointly with the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (ICMI-MLMI'09), 6 November 2009, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Chair (with Laurel Riek and Lars Erik Holmquist) of the Workshop Beyond Gray Droids: Domestic Robot Design for the 21st Century, held jointly with the 23rd BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction, 1 September 2009, Cambridge, UK.
• Chair (with Kostas Karpouzis, Christopher Peters and Jean-Claude Martin) of the Special Session on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments: Real-Time Affect Analysis and Interpretation in Everyday Settings, 10th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2009), 8 May 2009, London, UK.
• Chair (with Kostas Karpouzis, Christopher Peters and Jean-Claude Martin) of the Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments: Real-Time Affect Analysis and Interpretation for Virtual Agents and Social Robots (AFFINE'08), held jointly with the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'08), 24 October 2008, Chania, Greece.
• Main organiser of the 3rd HUMAINE EU Summer School, 22-28 September 2006, Genoa, Italy.
• Member of the Local Organising Committee of the Summer School in Sound and Music Computing, 25-29 July 2005, Genoa, Italy.

• Guest editor (with Kostas Karpouzis, Jean-Claude Martin, Louis-Philippe Morency, Christopher Peters and Laurel Riek) of the Special Issue on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, March 2012.
• Guest editor (with Kostas Karpouzis, Christopher Peters and Jean-Claude Martin) of the Special Issue on Real-Time Affect Analysis and Interpretation: Closing the Affective Loop in Virtual Agents and Robots, Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, Springer, 2010.

• Treasurer of the HUMAINE Association 
• Member of the HUMAINE Association’s Management Board and Executive Committee
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, Springer
• Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Interactive Worlds, Ibima Publishing

• 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2013) - Program Committee
• IEEE Workshop on Affective Computational Intelligence 2013 (WACI 2013), IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - Program Committee
• 2nd International Workshop on Emotion Representation, Analysis and Synthesis in Continuous Time and Space (EmoSPACE 2013) - Program Committee
• 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2012) - Program Committee
• Fourth IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom2012) - Program Committee
• First International Workshop on Context-based Affect Recognition 2012 (CBAR 2012), Fourth IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom2012) - Program Committee
• Third International Workshop on Social Behaviour in Music (CBAR 2012), 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2012) - Program Committee
• Third International Workshop on Human Behaviour Understanding 2012 (HBU 2012), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2012 - Program Committee
• Workshop on Applications for Emotional Robots, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication 2012 - Program Committee
• British Computer Society Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2012 - (BCS HCI 2012) - Program Committee
• Eleventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012) - Program Committee
• Third IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom2011) - Program Committee
• International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2011) - Program Committee
• International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2011 (ACII 2011) - Program Committee
• ACII Doctoral Consortium 2011 - Program Committee
• Workshop on Machine Learning for Affective Computing (MLAC), International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2011 (ACII 2011) - Program Committee
• International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2011 (IUI2011) - Program Committee
• Second International Workshop on Social Behavior in Music (SBM2011) - Program Committee
• Workshop on Emotion Synthesis, Representation, and Analysis in Continuous Spaces (EmoSPACE 2011), IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2011 (FG 2011) - Program Committee
• Workshop on Social Behavior Analysis, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture
  Recognition 2011 (FG 2011) - Program Committee
  
• Workshop on Natural Interaction and Player Satisfaction in Games, 3rd International Conference in Games
  and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games 2011) - Program Committee
• Workshop on Affective Computational Intelligence 2011, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - Program Committee
• 3rd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP) 2010 - Program Committee
• First Summer School on Affective Computing and Social Signal Processing 2010 - Scientific Committee
• AISB 2009 Symposium on Mental States, Emotions and their Embodiment - Program Committee
• ACII Doctoral Consortium 2009 - Program Committee
• 5th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces (eNTERFACE'09) - Scientific Committee

• International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2012 (ICMI 2012) - Publication Chair
• British Computer Society Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2012 - (BCS HCI 2012) -Workshop Chair
• International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2011 (ACII 2011) - Workshop Chair

• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 2010, 2011, 2012
• Image and Vision Computing, 2011, 2012
• Journal of Human-Robot Interaction 2012 
• Entertainment Computing 2012 
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 2011
• Emotion 2011
• Kunstliche Intelligenz 2011
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B 2009, 2010
• Interaction Studies 2008, 2009, 2010
• Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI) 2009, 2010
• Journal of Network and Computer Applications 2010, 2011
• Advances in Human-Computer Interaction (AHCI) 2009
• In Cognito 2008

• CHI 2013
• HRI 2013
• IVA 2012
• ACM/IEEE HRI 2011, 2012
• INTETAIN 2011
• IEEE RO-MAN 2010
• ICMI-MLMI 2009
• ICMI 2008 
• IEEE/RSJ IROS 2009
• IEEE ICRA 2009
  

• Castellano, G. (2012). Context-sensitive affect recognition for robotic companions. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences seminar series, Heriot-Watt University, UK, April 2012.
• Castellano, G. (2012). Affect sensitive robotic companions. Intelligent Robotics Lab (IRLab) seminar series, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK, February 2012.
• Castellano, G. (2011). Long term interaction with robot companions. Robots and Avatars workshop, Department of Computing, Coventry University, UK, November 2011.
• Castellano, G. (2011). Non-Verbal Behaviour Analysis for Affect Sensitive and Socially Perceptive Machines. Departmental Series, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK, October 2011.
• Castellano, G. (2011). Affective Non-Verbal Behaviour Analysis for Socially Intelligent Machines. Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy, July 2011.
• Castellano, G. (2011). Affect Sensitive and Socially Perceptive Machines. Automatic Human Behaviour Analysis Interest Group Meeting, Imperial College London, UK, May 2011.
• Castellano, G. (2010). Affect Sensitive and Socially Perceptive Machines. IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland, November 2010.
• Castellano, G. (2010). Affect Sensitive and Socially Perceptive Machines. Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy, October 2010.
• Castellano, G. (2010). Emotional Behaviours and Expressions in Human-Robot Interaction, presented at the seminar The science of expression: Physiognomy, evolution, and artificial companions, organised by the Centre for the History of Emotions, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK, March 2010.
• Castellano, G. (2010). Long-Term Affect Sensitive and Socially Interactive Companions. UCL Interaction Centre Seminars, London, UK, January 2010.
• Castellano, G. (2008). Movement Expressivity Analysis in Affective Computers: From Recognition to Expression of Emotion. Rainbow Group Seminars, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, UK, November 2008.
• Castellano, G., & Mancini, M. (2007). Real-Time Analysis and Synthesis of Emotional Gestures from Videos. Workshop on Emotional Gestures, Geneva, Switzerland, 8-10 January 2007.
• Castellano, G. (2006). Human Full-Body Movement and Gesture Analysis for Emotion Recognition: A Dynamic Approach. HUMAINE Cross-currents meeting, Athens, Greece, June 2006.
• Castellano, G, & Peters, C. (2006). Full-Body Analysis of Real and Virtual Human Motion for Animating Expressive Agents. HUMAINE Cross-currents meeting, Athens, Greece, June 2006.
• Castellano, G., Camurri, A., & Volpe, G. (2005). Expressive Gesture in Interaction: the Role of Movement and Gesture in Emotion. WP6 HUMAINE Workshop, Paris, France, 10-11 March 2005.