Varni

Giovanna Varni joined Télécom Paris as an Assistant Professor in 2017. Her research activities focus on the field of socio-affective computing. Previously, Giovanna Varni was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Genoa (Italy) on the InfoMus Lab team and then in the INTERACTION team (IMI2S group) at the Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris 6. Her work focuses on the analysis of non-verbal multimodal signals in human-human interaction and human-machine interaction. Since 2006, she has been involved in several European projects (FP7, EU-ICT, STREP and FET).

She is co-responsible for the Axis 4: Learning through interactions with environment.

Keywords: human-human and man-machine interaction, socio-affective signal processing, interpersonal synchrony, expressive gesture.

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