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Ronnie Taib

Senior Research Engineer (STaR)
Australian Technology Park, Sydney

Research activities

Ronnie Taib joined NICTA as a senior research engineer in January 2004. He has a broad interest in all the technologies enabling more friendly and useful machines and programs, encompassing multi-agent systems, context and user-aware systems, multimodal user interaction, and machine learning. Technology acceptance by both the users (UCD) and the industry is a major interest for him.

He has been involved in a number of research projects in the field of cognitive load measurement through behavioural (speech, gesture) and physiological (galvanic skin response, EEG) measures. His human-computer interaction (HCI) skills are put to use in the design, implementation and analysis of user studies at NICTA.

He is currently working in the Decision Support for Incident Management (DSIM) project, a collaboration with the NSW Transport Management Centre.

Ronnie gives guest lectures on HCI at the University of Sydney, tutors artificial intelligence at the University of NSW, and supervises a range of undergraduate students. He is also very active in teaching science in primary schools through the Scientists in Schools national initiative.

Experience

From 2001 to 2003, Ronnie held the position of senior research engineer at Motorola Labs Sydney, where he worked on multimodal and language technologies. He has been in charge of a couple of projects leading to 2 Bravo awards for an embedded multimodal navigation system and research on multimodal output generation in 2003, and a route summarisation module project in 2002.

From 1998 to 2001, he held the position of research engineer at Motorola Labs Paris, where he worked on multi-agent systems, especially acting as technical leader in the LEAP (lightweight extensible agent platform) 5th framework European project.

During that period, Ronnie has been recognised as an outstanding innovator, receiving an award for the biggest intellectual property generation in 1999, and a number of issued and published US and International patents.

Qualifications

Ronnie Taib graduated from the prestigious Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France) in 1997, with a major in networks and telecommunications. He received the "Felicitations" award, the highest distinction, in consideration of his three years of study at ECL.

He holds an ESI International associate's certificate in project management since 2003.

Selected publications

  • Ruiz, N., Taib, R. and Chen, F. Freeform Pen-Input as Evidence of Cognitive Load and Expertise”, Proc. International Conference of Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’11), Alicante, Spain, November 2011, pp. 185-188.
  • Ruiz, N., Taib, R., Shi, Y., Choi, E. and Chen, F. Using Pen Input Features as Indices of Cognitive Load. Proc. 9th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'07), Nagoya, Japan, Nov. 2007, 315-318.
  • Taib, R. and Ruiz, N. Integrating Semantics into Multimodal Interaction Patterns. Chapter in Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction. LNCS 4892, H. Bourlard, S. Renals, and A. Popescu-Belis, Eds. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008, 96-107.
  • Chen, F., Taib, R., Choi, E., Shi, Y. and Yee, D. User Interface Design for Traffic Incident Management Systems. Proc. 14th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, (Beijing, China, Oct. 2007), paper 3003, on CD.
  • Choi, E., Taib, R., Shi, Y. and Chen, F. Multimodal User Interface for Traffic Incident Management in Control Room. IET Intelligent Transport Systems, vol. 1, no.1, Mar 2007. (2007), 27-36.
  • Shi, Y., Ruiz, N., Taib, R., Choi, E. and Chen, F. Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) as an Index of Cognitive Load. Proc. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'07), (San Jose, April/May 2007). (2007), 2651-2656.
  • Ruiz, N., Taib, R., and Chen, F. Examining the redundancy of multimodal input. In Proc. 20th annual conference of the Australian computer-human interaction special interest group (OzCHI'06), (Sydney, Australia, 20-24 Nov 2006). (2006), 389-392.
  • Taib, R. and Ruiz, N. Tangible Objects for the Acquisition of Multimodal Interaction Patterns. In Proc. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'06), (Genoa, Italy, 24-26 May 2006). (2006), 2540-2545.
  • Taib, R. and Ruiz, N. Multimodal Interaction Styles for Hypermedia Adaptation. In Proc. International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'06), (Sydney, Australia, 30 January-1 February 2006). (2006), 351-353.
  • Taib, R. and Ruiz, N. Evaluating Tangible Objects for Multimodal Interaction Design. In Proc. 19th annual conference of the Australian computer-human interaction special interest group (OzCHI'05), (Canberra, Australia, 21-25 November 2005). CHISIG of Australia, Narrabundah, Australia, (2005), on CD.
  • Chen, F., Choi, E., Ruiz, N., Shi, Y., and Taib, R. User Interface Design and Evaluation for Control Room. In Proc. 19th annual conference of teh Australian computer-human interaction special interest group (OzCHI'05), (Canberra, Australia, 21-25 November 2005). CHISIG of Australia, Narrabundah, Australia, (2005).
  • Chen, F., Choi, E., Epps, J., Lichman, S., Ruiz, N., Shi, Y., Taib, R., and Wu, M. A Study of Manual Gesture-Based Selection for the PEMMI Multimodal Transport Management Interface. In 7th international conference on Multimodal interfaces (ICMI'05), (Trento, Italy, 4-6 October 2005). ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, (2005), 274-281.
  • Ahmed, A., Dwyer, T., Forster, M., Fu, X., Ho, J., Hong, S.-H., Koschützki, D., Murray, C., Nikolov, N. S., Taib, R., Tarassov, A., and Xu, K. GEOMI: GEOmetry for Maximum Insight. In 13th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD2005), (Limerick, Ireland, 12-14 September 2005). Springer-Verlag, (2005), 468-479.

Patents

  • US6512922, EP1069792, Information Services Provision In A Telecommunications Network. Inventors: Burg, B., Taib, R., Schmitt, A. Applicant: Motorola Inc.US patent granted: Jan 28, 2003.
  • US6747685, EP 01402301.4, Conference Calling. Inventors: Taib, R., Lhuillier, N., Charlton, P. Applicant: Motorola Inc. US patent issued: Jun 8, 2004.
  • WO03/045018, Method For Optimising Path Selection In Packet Switched Networks. Inventors: Burg, B., Taib, R., Boscovic, D. Applicant: Motorola Inc. PCT patent published May 30, 2003.
  • WO03/003779, Group Application For Group Formation And Management. Inventors: Cudak, M., Taib, R. Applicant: Motorola Inc. PCT/EP02 patent published: Jan 9, 2003.
  • WO02/23342, Ad Hoc Telecommunications Network Management And Routing. Inventors: Taib, R., Benson, M. Applicant: Motorola Inc. PCT/EP01 application published: Mar 21, 2002.
  • WO02/17132, Agents. Inventors: Taib, R., Bonnefoy-Cudraz, D., Aftelak, A., Boscovic, D. Applicant: Motorola Inc. PCT/EP01 application published: Jul 28, 2002.
  • US20050004788, Multi-Level Confidence Measures For Task Modeling And Its Application To Task-Oriented Multi-Modal Dialog Management. Inventors: Lee, R., Taib, R. Applicant: Motorola Inc. US patent filed: Jul 3, 2003.