Gualtiero Volpe

Gualtiero Volpe was born in Genova (Italy) in 1974. He received his degree in computer engineering from the University of Genova in 1999 with a thesis on agent software architectures for multimedia applications. 
He obtained his PhD degree in June 2003 with a dissertation on computational models of expressive gesture in multimedia systems. In particular, research focused on models and algorithms for expressive content analysis and processing in human-full body movement.
His research interests include multimodal interactive systems, intelligent and expressive human-machine interaction, modeling and real-time analysis and synthesis of expressive content in music and dance, KANSEI information processing, and expressive gesture communication. 
He is researcher at the DIST - InfoMus Lab at University of Genova. He participated to national and European research projects on interactive multimedia systems and multimodal interfaces (e.g., EU IST MEGA project). He was coordinator of a CNR (Italian National Research Council) project for young researchers on "Methods for analysis of expressiveness in human movement for Virtual Environment applications" (2000-2001).
He was co-chair of the 5th International Gesture Workshop (Genova, April 15-17, 2003) and he is co-editor with Antonio Camurri of the book “Gesture-based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction”, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence, no.2915, Springer Verlag, 2004. He is guest editor of a special issue of the Journal of New Music Research (Taylor&Francis Publishers) on “Expressive Gesture in Performing Arts and New Media”.
He is member of the Board of Directors of AIMI (Italian Computer Music Association).

More information, including a selection of downloadable publications, can be found at the InfoMus website.