SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
(>180 citations in total so far):
N. Mavridis, "Grounded Situation Models for Situated Conversational Assistants", PhD thesis at MIT, available online at MIT DSpace Digital Thesis Repository (readable, non-printable), for printable version click here (pdf)
N. Mavridis, D. Roy, "Grounded Situation Models for Robots: Where words and percepts meet", IEEE IROS 2006 (>30 citations so far) (click here for pdf)
N. Mavridis, D. Roy, "Grounded Situation Models for Robots: Bridging Language, Perception, and Action", AAAI-05 modular construction of human-like intelligence
D. Roy, K. Hsiao and N. Mavridis, "Mental Imagery for a Conversational Robot", IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Part B, 2004 (click here for pdf)
N. Mavridis, N. Giakoumidis, et al., “A Novel Evaluation Framework for Teleoperation and a Case Study on Natural Human-Arm-Imitation Through Motion Capture", International Jourmal Of Social Robotics, Springer Verlag, DOI: 10.1007/s12369-011-0117-8, 2011 (click here for pdf)
N. Mavridis, M. Katsaiti, et al., "Opinions and attitudes toward humanoid robots in the Middle East", AI & Society, Springer Verlag, DOI: 10.1007/s00146-011-0370-2, 2011 (click here for pdf)
N. Mavridis, S. Emami, et al.,“FaceBots: Steps Towards Enhanced Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction by Utilizing & Publishing Online Social Information”, Springer Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics, Vol.1 No.3, pp.169-178, DOI: 10.2478/s13230-011-0003-y (click here for pdf)
Friends and Faces: Exploring the Bidirectional Synergies between Social Networks and Automated Face Recognition", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics Part C, 2011
N. Mavridis, "Robot Friends: Artificial Agents entering Human Social Networks", in book "The Networked Self: Identity, Community and Culture on Social Network Sites", Routledge, New York, 2010 (click here for pdf)
N. Mavridis, W. Kazmi and P. Toulis, "Friends with Faces: How Social Networks Can Enhance Face Recognition and Vice Versa", in book "Computational Social Networks Analysis: Trends, Tools and Research Advances", Springer Verlag, 2009 (click here for pdf)
N. Mavridis, A. Dhaheri, L. Dhaheri, M. Khanji, N. Darmaki “Transforming IbnSina into an Advanced Multilingual Interactive Android Robot”, IEEE GCC Conference, 2011
N. Mavridis, N. Giakoumidis, “Natural Robot Teleoperation through Human Arm Imitation”, TEE Robotics Conference 2010
N. Mavridis, “On Artificial Agents within Human Social Networks: Examples, Open Questions, and Potentialities”, IEEE DEST 2010, pp. 685-690
N. Mavridis, E. Machado et al.,"Real-time Teleoperation of an Industrial Robotic Arm Through Human Arm Movement Imitation", IRIS 2010 (click here for pdf)
C. Christoforou, N. Mavridis et al.,"Android tele-operation through Brain-Computer Interfacing: A real-world demo with non-expert users", IRIS 2010 (click here for pdf)
N. Mavridis, M. Petychakis, “Human-like Memory Systems for Interactive Robots: Desiderata and Two Case Studies utilizing Grounded Situation Models and Online Social Networking”, AISB 2010 (click here for pdf)
L. Riek, N. Mavridis, et al. “Ibn Sina Steps Out: Exploring Arabic Attitudes Toward Humanoid Robots”, AISB 2010 (click here for pdf)
N. Mavridis, M. Petychakis et al., "FaceBots: Shared Memories and Shared Friends towards meaningful long-term HRI", CogSys 2010
N. Mavridis, A. Rashdi, M. Ketbi, S. Ketbi, A. Marar, "Exploring Behaviors & Collaborative Mapping through Mindstorms Robots: A case study in applied constructionism at senior-project level", IEEE Innov.2009 (click here for pdf)
N. Mavridis and D. Hanson, "The IbnSina Center: An Augmented Reality Theater with Intelligent Robotic and Virtual Characters", IEEE RoMAN09 (click here for pdf)
N. Mavridis, W. Kazmi, P. Toulis, C. Ben-AbdelKader, "On the synergies between online social networking, Face Recognition, and Interactive Robotics", CaSoN 2009 (click here for pdf)
N. Mavridis, "Approaches towards Natural Language Communication for Interactive Robots", ICRA 2009 cognitive factors
N. Mavridis, C. Datta et al, "Facebots: Social robots utilizing and publishing social information in Facebook", IEEE HRI 2009
N. Mavridis, S. Emami et al.: "Facebots: Embodied Conversational Social Robots", TEE Robotics Conference 2009
V. Kwee, N. Mavridis, H. Tair, A. Shehi, A. Yammahi, S. Maqdahi, "Digital Extensions to Cultural Objects", DMACH 2008 (click here for pdf)
D. Roy, R. Patel, P. DeCamp, R. Kubat, M. Fleischman, B. Roy, N. Mavridis, S. Tellex, A. Salata, J. Guinness, M. Levit, P. Gorniak: "The Human Speechome Project", Annual Cognitive Science Conference 2006
K. Hsiao, N. Mavridis and D. Roy, "Coupling Perception and Simulation: Steps Towards Conversational Robotics", IEEE IROS’2003 conference
D. Roy, K. Hsiao and N. Mavridis, "Conversational Robots: Building Blocks for Grounding Word Meanings", NAACL HLT’2003 conference
S. Malasiotis et al., "A face and gesture recognition system based on an active stereo sensor", IEEE ICIP 2001 Conf. Proc. (click here for pdf)
N. Mavridis et al., "The HISCORE face recognition application: Affordable desktop face recognition based on a novel 3D camera", EURASIP ICAV3D 2001 Conference (click here for pdf)
PhD THESIS
N. Mavridis, "Grounded Situation Models for Situated Conversational Assistants", Available online at MIT DSpace Thesis Depository, and as a book by Lambert Academic
MONOGRAPHS, REPORTS, AND EXTENSION PUBLICATIONS
MIT Media Lab Technical Reports: "Pathways towards human action and the proposal of the Human Activity Language", "Costraints for cross-species intention recognition and feeling / desire communication" etc.
Extensive internal evaluation report for Siemens as part of the EU HiScore project regarding performance evaluation of various 2D/3D face recognition methods
FILMS, CD's, VIDEOS, WEBSITES etc.
Referee-Accepted Videos for video sessions of international conferences:
Grounded Situation Models: Where Words and Percepts Meet, IROS 2006
FaceBots: Social Robots Utilizing FaceBook, HRI 2009
The IbnSina Interactive Theater: Where Humans, Robots and Virtual Characters Meet, RO-MAN 2009
Youtube Research-related videos: More than 10 orginal videos of our projects, >30Kviews, youtube channel irmluaeu
Websites:
Interactive Robots and Media Lab site, http://irml.uaeu.ac.ae >20Khits 2008-9
GCC Cognitive Science Society site
Literary Scripts / Fiction: "The Dream of IbnSina": A poetic semi-fictional autobiographical monologue regarding the life and dreams of the famous 11-th century polymath (Avicenna), in the form of an imaginary letter to Plato. Script partially utilized towards character-based animation demonstration of the IbnSina theatre.
Publicity / popular science: Articles, documentaries, TV news clips, and news items about my work in media of more than 20 countries worldwide. A listing can be found in separate section.
