Student

Tom Gurion

Course: MAT PhD

Year: 2016

Website: http://www.tomgurion.me

In his PhD, Tom explores listeners non-verbal cues in multiparty social interactions using virtual reality. He has an MA in music technology from Bar-Ilan University and BSc in math and music from Haifa University. Before moving to London to pursue his PhD Tom worked as a software developer.

Unsocial VR 2017

MAT Cruftfest Schleikess ("suspenders" in Yiddish) 2016

tapeless cassettes 2016

Publications

Gurion, T., Healey, P. G. T., & Hough, J. (2018, November). Real-time testing of non-verbal interaction: An experimental method and platform. Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Poster Abstracts. http://semdial.org/anthology/Z18-Gurion_semdial_0027.pdf
Gurion, T., Healey, P. G. T., & Hough, J. (2020, July). Comparing models of speakers’ and listeners’ head nods. Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. http://semdial.org/anthology/Z20-Gurion_semdial_0013.pdf
Gurion, T., & Jacoby, N. (2013). Audio-only augmented reality system for social interaction. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 322–326.