Dr. Manuel Giuliani

Biography

• Magister Artium in Computational Linguistics, 2004 
• Master of Science in Applied Informatics, 2006 
• November 2006 to January 2011, research assistant at the group for Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München 
• Since February 2011, research associate at fortiss 
• October 2011, Dissertation: Comparing Embodied and Classical Multimodal Fusion for Human-Robot Interaction 

Projects

• JAMES, Joint Action for Multimodal Embodied Social Systems
• AudiComm, Audio for Communication and Environment Perception (part of the cluster of excellence CoTeSys)
• JAST, Joint-Action Science and Technology (listed as one of the research highlights on the informatics website)

Publications

1. Andre Gaschler, Kerstin Huth, Manuel Giuliani, Ingmar Kessler, Jan de Ruiter, and Alois Knoll. Modelling state of interaction from head poses for social Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the Gaze in Human-Robot Interaction Workshop held at the 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2012), Boston, MA, March 2012.
2. Manuel Giuliani and Alois Knoll. Evaluating supportive and instructive robot roles in human-robot interaction. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Robotics 2011 (ICSR 2011), Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 2011.
3. Manuel Giuliani, Claus Lenz, Thomas Müller, Markus Rickert, and Alois Knoll. Design principles for safety in human-robot interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics, 2(3):253-274, September 2010.
4. Manuel Giuliani, Mary Ellen Foster, Amy Isard, Colin Matheson, Jon Oberlander, and Alois Knoll. Situated reference in a hybrid human-robot interaction system. In Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010), Dublin, Ireland, July 2010.
5. Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, and Alois Knoll. Comparing objective and subjective measures of usability in a human-robot dialogue system. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), Singapore, August 2009.
6. Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Amy Isard, Colin Matheson, Jon Oberlander, and Alois Knoll. Evaluating description and reference strategies in a cooperative human-robot dialogue system. In Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), Pasadena, California, July 2009.
7. Manuel Giuliani and Alois Knoll. MultiML - a general purpose representation language for multimodal human utterances. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI, Chania, Crete, October 2008.
8. Manuel Giuliani, Michael Kaßecker, Stefan Schwärzler, Alexander Bannat, Jürgen Gast, Frank Wallhoff, Christoph Mayer, Matthias Wimmer, Cornelia Wendt, and Sabrina Schmidt. MuDiS - a multimodal dialogue system for human-robot interaction. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cognition for Technical Systems, Munich, Germany, October 2008.
9. Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Thomas Müller, Markus Rickert, Alois Knoll, Wolfram Erlhagen, Estela Bicho, Nzoji Hipólito, and Luis Louro. Combining goal inference and natural-language dialogue for human-robot joint action. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Combinations of Intelligent Methods and Applications, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Patras, Greece, July 2008.
10. Manuel Giuliani and Alois Knoll. Integrating multimodal cues using grammar based models. In Constantine Stephanidis, editor, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International, Part II, volume 4555 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 858-867, Beijing, July 2007. Springer.
11. Markus Rickert, Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Tomas By, Giorgio Panin, and Alois Knoll. Integrating language, vision and action for human robot dialog systems. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International, volume 4555 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 987-995, Beijing, China, July 2007. Springer.
12. Manuel Giuliani, Tin Lay Nwe, and Haizhou Li. Meeting segmentation using two-layer cascaded subband filters. In Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP, Singapore, December 2005.