Wilbert Tabone

Wilbert Tabone

PhD Candidate in Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction, Delft University of Technology

Résumé

Education

Skills

Design Thinking, Interaction, Human Factors, User Experience, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Computational Art, Human Computer Interface, Designing, Emerging Technologies, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Simulators, Eye Tracking, Digital Cultural Heritage.

Python, R, Matlab, C#, Swift, Java.

Unity, Xcode, Prolific, R Studio, Adobe Creative Suite, Qualtrics, Otter.ai.

 

Publications

Aleva, T*., Tabone, W*., Dodou, D., & De Winter J. C. F. (2023). Augmented reality for supporting the interaction between pedestrians and automated vehicles: An experimental outdoor study. Under review.

Block, A., Joshi, S., Tabone, W., Pandya A., Lee, S., Patil, V., Britten, N., & Schmitt, P. (2023). The Road Ahead: Advancing Interactions between Autonomous Vehicles, Pedestrians, and Other Road Users. Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). Busan, South Korea.

Peereboom, J*., Tabone, W*., Dodou, D., & De Winter J. C. F. (2023). Head-locked, world-locked, or conformal diminished-reality? An examination of different AR solutions for pedestrian safety in occluded scenarios. Under review.

Tabone, W., Happee, R., Yang, Y., Sadraei, E., García, J., Lee, Y. M., Merat, N., & De Winter J. C. F. (2023). Immersive Insights: Evaluating Augmented Reality Interfaces for Pedestrians in a CAVE-Based Experiment. Under review.

Tabone, W., & De Winter J. C. F. (2023). Using ChatGPT for Human-Computer Interaction Research: A Primer. Royal Society Open Science, 10, 231053

Joshi, S., Block, A., Tabone, W., Pandya A., & Schmitt, P. (2023). Advancing the State of AV-Vulnerable Road User Interaction: Challenges and Opportunities. Proceedings of the AAAI 2023 Spring Symposium. Palo Alto, California, United States.

Tabone, W., Happee, R., Garcia, J., Lee, Y. M., Lupetti, M. C., Merat, N., & De Winter, J. C. F. (2023). Augmented reality interfaces for pedestrian-vehicle interactions: An online study. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 94, 170–189.

De Winter, J. C. F., Dodou, D., & Tabone, W. (2022). How do people distribute their attention while observing The Night Watch? Perception, 51, 763–788.

Merat, N., Yang, Y., Lee, Y. M., Berge, S. H., Figalová, N., Jokhio, S., Peng, C., Mbelekani, N.Y., Nasser, M., Pir Muhammad, A., Tabone, W., Yuan-Cheng, L., \& Bärgman, J. (2021). SHAPE-IT Deliverable 2.2: An overview of interfaces for automated vehicles (inside/outside).

Figalová, N., Mbelekani, N.Y., Zhang, C., Yang, Y., Peng, C., Nasser, M., Yuan-Cheng, L., Pir Muhammad, A., Tabone, W., Berge, S. H., Jokhio, S., He, X., Hossein Kalantari, A., Mohammadi, A., & Yang, X. (2021). SHAPE-IT Deliverable 1.1: Methodological framework for modelling and empirical approaches.

Tabone, W., Lee, Y.M., Merat, N., Happee, R., & De Winter, J.C.F. (2021). Towards future pedestrian-vehicle interactions: Introducing theoretically-supported AR prototypes. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (pp. 209–218).

Tabone, W., De Winter, J. C. F., Ackermann, C., Bärgman, J., Baumann, M., Deb, S., Emmenegger, C., Habibovic, A., Hagenzieker, M., Hancock. P. A., Happee, R., Krems, J., Lee, J. D., Martens, M., Merat, N., Norman, D. A., Sheridan, T. B., & Stanton, N. A. (2021). Vulnerable road users and the coming wave of automated vehicles: Expert perspectives. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives , 9, 100293.

Tabone, W. (2020). The Effectiveness of an Augmented Reality Guiding System in an Art Museum. Rediscovering Heritage Through Technology (pp. 197-214). Springer, Cham.

Tabone, W. (2019). Technology for Cultural Heritage. Tesserae Spring Edition]. Heritage Malta.

Tabone, W., Wilkinson, M.H.F., Van Gaalen, A.E.J.V., Georgiadis, J., & Azzopardi, G. (2019). Alpha-Tree Segmentation of Human Anatomical Photographic Imagery. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applications of Intelligent Systems (pp. 1-6).

Tabone, W., & Seychell, D. (2015). Recognising Familiar Facial Features In Paintings Belonging to Separate Domains. Proeedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (pp. 125-136).

* Denotes equal contribution (joint first authors).

 

Supervision and Teaching

Supervised BSc Students: Jhamal Blanken, Jay Husband, Jari Pols, Aden Westmaas.

Supervised MSc Students:

 

Bigpoint International

Quality Assurance Engineer

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Software Engineer

Ixaris Systems

Software Engineer

MFHEA

Quality Assurance Auditor

  

Government of Malta

Comms. and Digital Tech. Officer

WILTABONE

Creative Director

MUŻA

Project, Comms. and Technology Coordinator

Heritage Malta

Creative Computing Executive

  

Malta.AI

Board Member

TU Delft

Marie Curie ESR

NCPE

Committee Member

  

Outreach

  

Service and leadership

 

IGDA Malta

Board member

GDG Malta

PRO

Sea Cadets

Comms and Info Systems Instructor

CYC

Europe and Africa Subcom

  

LGBTI+ Gozo

Marketing and Digital Tech. Officer

Malta Society of Arts

Committee Member