Before Corona changed everything, I did a video format for Magenta TV, which I completely forgot to promote. You can watch the whole discussion here. The topic was: How robots and AI change our World. Unfortunately, only in German.
Read moreIn the newspaper: „Auf der Suche nach nützlichen Robotern“ – German
In my role as a member of the Young Academy of Science of the ÖAW, I was asked to contribute a blog article in derStandard (Austrian News paper) to reflect on my research on Human-robot Interaction. Unfortunately, only in German...
Read moreCOVID-19 and HRI research…
My series of Human-Robot Interaction household studies within the project SharedSpace started in February this year. Originally, it was intended as a companion to similar long-term studies performed with vacuum cleaning robots. I was curious to...
Read moreÖAW talk by Sami Haddadin
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...
Read moreInterview for innovationorigins.com: „Über das Zusammenleben mit Buddy dem Gefährtenroboter“ – German
I gave an interview on the research agenda for the SharedSpace project. At this time, I still hoped that I might use the BUDDY robots. -All in German unfortunately Klicken Sie auf den unteren Button, um den Inhalt von innovationorigins.com zu...
Read moreDagstuhl Seminar
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...
Read moreInterview for Medical Device Developments magazine: „Connect the Bots“ – English
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 moreInterview for TU Wien on my research profile – German
unfortunately only in German. The whole site is about female young academics. You can find it here
Read moreNicole Mirnig finished her PhD
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...
Read moreInterview for USAtoday.com: „Hey, Alexa: Can a robot with AI or your voice assistant help you feel less lonely?“ – English
Can AI cure loneliness…? one of the most challenging media questions, I have never really wanted to answer…we do not need to cure loneliness, right? However, read up on my opinion in more detail here...
Read moreChristiana Tsiourti finished her PhD
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...
Read moreInformal EMCO: Invited Talk
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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