PhD, sofware engineer, eyw co-developer
e-mail: colettap@infomus.dist.unige.it
Expertise: Qualitative analysis of various aspects of interaction: in particular, Coletta published papers with InfoMus staff on approaches and computational models on expressiveness and physical interaction in interactive systems, with a special focus on human-robot communication, on the development of techniques for expressive movement synthesis and on their hardware and software implementation in concrete human-robot and human-virtual characters interaction, research done at DIST InfoMus lab in 1999. As software engineer Coletta contributed to the development and the engineering of software platforms developed at InfoMus Lab, including Petrex, XpetreX, and to the more recent EyesWeb open software platform. Coletta joined the EyesWeb research project in 1997 and is currently the main software project manager and developer in Numensoft to support the EyesWeb project of InfoMus Lab.