Angelo Cafaro

Angelo Cafaro is a postdoctoral researcher at CNRS-LTCI, Telecom ParisTech in France. He is doing research in the area of embodied conversational agents and serious game environments with emphasis on social interaction, group behavior and expression of social attitudes. He obtained his Ph.D. from Reykjavik University in 2014. His dissertation dealt with analyzing and modeling human nonverbal communicative behavior exhibited by a virtual agent in a first greeting encounter with the user. In his dissertation he also proposed a SAIBA compliant computational model featuring a unified specification for the Function Markup Language (FML). More information is available on his personal webpage: www.angelocafaro.info.