Introduction

Javi Gorostiza studied physics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, in 1999. Also he recived the Ing. degree in Electronic Engineering in the same university, in 2002. He is currently making the Ph.D. in Human-Robot Multimodal Interaction, in the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where also he is a teacher.

"I think that the different human being models is the best source of ideas in this field of research, so I am interested in psychology of human-human interaction, to take the essence of the interaction between humans, then apply to a Human-Robot Interaction. Robot implies limitations because its nature, but also opens new language articulations: sounds, lights, multimedia,...

Applications: education, entertainment, artistic expression, human colaboration, robot companions, knowledge of human,...

Please, do not hesitate in contact with me to tell me any suggestion, idea or comment, or to look for any collaboration"

He works also in music and performance expression. He is a music composer and plays piano, guitar and trumpet. He is interested in all types of music but specialy in jazz music and all its modern variants(be-bop, cool, free jazz,...), also in electroacustic music, contemporary music and classical music.

To find Javi F. Gorostiza at Mendeley you can click here.

You can also try another personal site in HUMAINE.

Research activity at the moment

• Multimodal Human Robot Interaction. Click here to see more details explained in the RoboticsLab web.

Teaching activity

Undergraduate Senior Thesis managment

This section talks about the Undergraduate Senior Thesis that Javi F. Gorostiza has advise or is advising. If you are interested in making your Senior Thesis in some of these issues please contact Javi Gorostiza.

• Tactil Interface Implementation with a Tablet-PC in a Personal Robot by Carlos Jiménez.

• Emotional Text - To - Speech Tool Implementation for the Personal Robot Maggie by Elena Cal.

• ASR Skill Implementation in AD Architecture for the Personal Robot Maggie by Federico Cebrián.

• Implementation of a General Kinesic Movement Skill for the Personal Robot Maggie OPENED

• A Graphic User Interface Implementation for the Design of Simple Kinesic Gesture Expressions in a Personal Robot OPENED

• Automatic Dialogue Design with VoiceXML OPENED

• Automatic User Age and User Gender Recognition through Speech Signal Analysis in Real Time OPENED

• Automatic User Emotion Recognition through Speech Signal Analysis in Real Time OPENED

• Audiovisual Expression Skills Implementation with Pure Data and Graphics Environment for Multimedia (PD-GEM) tool in a TabletPC. OPENED

• Musical Habilities Implementation in a Personal Robot OPENED

• Emotional Sonund Expression System for Human - Robot Interaction OPENED

• Sound Parameters Perception for Human-Robot Interaction. OPENED

Interesting Links

Robotics

• Robotics group in Comité Espñol de Automática.

• EURON: European Robotics Research Network

• RobotBooks. Here you can find robotics books, robot kits and toy robots. It's very good for beginners.

• Future Applications Lab is an interesting and singular researching group from Sweden.

Interesting Software

• Open Frameworks is an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding.

• OSSWin project Gnu is not just for LINUX. There are also, a lot of Open Source Software for Windows.

• PD-GEM Pure Data and Graphics Environment for Multimedia are GNU tools. They work as MAX in Macintosh. It is a graphical Computer Music System.

• Sourceforge site.is the world's largest Open Source software development web site. SourceForge.net provides free hosting to Open Source software development projects with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code.

• MBROLA for Text - to - Speech technology.

Other links...

• MediaLab in Madrid. It is a public space where the artists that work between art and science can develope and expose their creations.

• Aula de propulsión escópica. Workshop focused on building simple electronic circuits which inputs would be simple actions such as step, shout, hold, light, move, paint, blow or press to interact with complex audiovisual systems such as synthesizers or visual and sound sequencers.

• Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.

• Chunky Move's Mortal Engine Interactive dance with real-time projection... amazing!!!

• Solo parque en la cornisa-vistillas. Help keeping a historical green and public zone in Madrid!

• Asociación de Vecinos de Aluche. Aluche is a Madrid neighborhood with one of the most population density. This association fights to make it a better place.

• Cost of the war in Irak

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