Last Friday, Prof. Sami Haddadin gave an inspiring talk about „robotics and AI“ at the ÖAW: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/detail/event/robotik-und-kuenstliche-intelligenz/ As young member of the academy I was asked to moderate Q&A...
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A short interview on my current project SharedSpace: Über das Zusammenleben mit Buddy, dem Gefährtenroboter
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22. – 26. April 2019 the Dagstuhl seminar, I co-organized, on Ethics and Trust: Principles, Verification and Validation in AI and robotics took place. It was a great experience and a really fruitful discussion wrt trustworthy human-robot...
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The Medical Device Developments magazine interviewed me on my research on cobots. Have a look on page 48ff if you are interested in my thoughts on the future manufacturing world in which humans and robots work shoulder-to-shoulder.
Read moreunfortunately only in German. The whole site is about female young academics. You can find it here
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On March 6, Nicole Mirnig successfully defended her PhD at the Center for HCI, University of Salzburg. Her thesis entitled „Essentials of Robot Feedback-On developing a Taxonomy for Human-Robot Interaction“ presents a substantial body...
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Christiana Tsiourti came as a visiting PhD researcher for her last year to the V4R group. I was her host supervisor together with Markus Vincze. She did two exciting HRI studies during her stay, one is published at HAI2017 conference and one will...
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Last week, I gave an invited talk on „The Future of HRI in the care sector“ at the 2018 Informal EMCO meeting. The Employment Committee of the European Commission (EMCO) is an advisory committee set up to implement the European...
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This week, I gave my first invited talk with my newborn son (almost 3 months) carried in the baby sling via Skype 🙂 So happy that modern technology makes it possible to contribute to academia while on parental leave. It was an invited talk on my...
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https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/detail/news/relationships-with-robots/ unfortunately only in German
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Some great news: Our first publication within the SharedSpace project won the best paper ward at „Social Robots. A Workshop on the Past, the Present and the Future of Digital Companions“ which took place in conjunction...
Read moreToday I was interviewed as an expert in the field of assistive robotics for a European-wide study on the impact of digitalisation on social services (conducted by Eurofund in cooperation of VVA and TNO). I was asked in a structured interview for...
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