Dr Melanie Jouaiti

Dr Melanie Jouaiti

School of Computer Science
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Address
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Melanie Jouaiti is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer science and her research focuses on human-centred technologies for healthcare.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer science 2020
  • MSc in Computer science 2017
  • BSc in Electrical Engineering 2015

Biography

Melanie Jouaiti is an assistant professor at the School of Computer science. She was previously a research associate at Imperial College London and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Waterloo. Her research is at the intersection between computer science and healthcare and her interests include pathological speech and robot- assisted therapy. 

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Lawrence, S, Azizi, N, Fan, K, Jouaiti, M, Hoey, J, Nehaniv, CL & Dautenhahn, K 2025, 'Examining the Impact of Robot Norm Violations on Participants’ Trust, Discomfort, Behaviour, and Physiological Responses - A Mixed Method Approach', ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1145/3719211

CR&T Group, Walsh, C, Capstick, A, Fletcher-Lloyd, N, True, J, Nilforooshan, R & Barnaghi, P 2025, 'Longitudinal study of care needs and behavioural changes in people living with dementia using in-home assessment data', Communications Medicine, vol. 5, no. 1, 14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-024-00724-3

Fan, K, Jouaiti, M, Noormohammadi-Asl, A, Dautenhahn, K & Nehaniv, CL 2025, 'Social Referencing Disambiguation with Robot Mental Imagery for Domestic Service Robots: System Implementation and Validation in an Object Selection Task', International Journal of Social Robotics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-025-01223-8

Forghani, D, Rasouli, S, Ghafurian, M, Jouaiti, M, Nehaniv, CL & Dautenhahn, K 2025, 'System Development and Evaluation of a Social Robot as a Public Speaking Coach', International Journal of Social Robotics, vol. 17, no. 11, pp. 2391-2417. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-025-01320-8

Jouaiti, M, Nehaniv, CL & Dautenhahn, K 2025, 'What do we mean by synchrony in human-robot interaction research? Towards a unifying framework', Interaction Studies, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 313-339. https://doi.org/10.1075/is.24011.jou

Jing, S, Huang, HY, Jouaiti, M, Zhao, Y, Yu, Z, Vaidyanathan, R & Farina, D 2024, 'Enhancing the Prediction of Locomotion Transition with High-Density Surface Electromyography', IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics . https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2024.3497658

Mahdi, H, Jouaiti, M, Saleh, S & Dautenhahn, K 2024, 'Towards accessible robot-assisted physical play for children with disabilities: MyJay, from user-centred design to an initial feasibility study', Interaction Studies, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 36-69. https://doi.org/10.1075/is.00023.mah

Su, T, Calvo, RA, Jouaiti, M, Daniels, S, Kirby, P, Dijk, D-J, della Monica, C & Vaidyanathan, R 2023, 'Assessing a Sleep Interviewing Chatbot to Improve Subjective and Objective Sleep: Protocol for an Observational Feasibility Study', JMIR Research Protocols, vol. 12, e45752. https://doi.org/10.2196/45752

Conference contribution

Jouaiti, M, Casagrande, E & Azizi, N 2026, Acceptability and Expectations of Social Robots in Speech and Language Therapy - A Survey. in M Staffa, J-J Cabibihan, B Siciliano, SS Ge, L Bodenhagen, A Tapus, S Rossi, F Cavallo, L Fiorini, M Matarese & H He (eds), Social Robotics + AI: 17th International Conference, ICSR+AI 2025, Naples, Italy, September 10–12, 2025, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 16132 LNAI, Springer, pp. 538-546, 17th International Conference on Social Robotics + AI, Naples, Italy, 10/09/25. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-2382-5_39

Ghosh, S, Sinha, Y, Jouaiti, M, Wansiedler, T, Hakenberg, KP, Karcher, J, Siegert, I & Stober, S 2026, Phy-VC: Physics-Informed Voice Conversion for Privacy-Preserving Pathological. in Interspeech 2026. Interspeech, ISCA, 27th Interspeech Conference, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 27/09/26.

Ghosh, S, Jouaiti, M, Perschewski, JO & Stober, S 2025, StutterCut: Uncertainty-Guided Normalised Cut for Dysfluency Segmentation. in Interspeech 2025. Interspeech 2025, ISCA, pp. 808-812, 26th Interspeech Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 17/08/25. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2025-151

Ghosh, S, Jouaiti, M, Das, A, Sinha, Y, Polzehl, T, Siegert, I & Stober, S 2024, Anonymising Elderly and Pathological Speech: Voice Conversion Using DDSP and Query-by-Example. in Interspeech 2024. Interspeech, ISCA, pp. 4438-4442, 25th Interspeech Conferece 2024, Kos Island, Greece, 1/09/24. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2024-328

Fan, K, Jouaiti, M, Noormohammadi-As, A, Nehaniv, CL & Dautenhahn, K 2023, A Social Referencing Disambiguation Framework for Domestic Service Robots. in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, pp. 11979-11985, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, London, United Kingdom, 29/05/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161168

Jouaiti, M, Azizi, N & Dautenhahn, K 2023, Computational Methods to Support Prototyping of an Adaptive Robot Joystick Controller for Children with Upper Limb Impairments. in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)., 10160808, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, pp. 12001-12007, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, London, United Kingdom, 29/05/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160808

Review article

Lawrence, S, Jouaiti, M, Hoey, J, Nehaniv, CL & Dautenhahn, K 2025, 'The Role of Social Norms in Human-Robot Interaction: A Systematic Review', ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, vol. 14, no. 3, 56. https://doi.org/10.1145/3722120

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