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 moreCan 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...
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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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I am very honored to be one of the 29 new members the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) welcomes to its ranks. At the annual election on 20 April 2018, 16 female and 13 male researchers were „inducted in recognition of their scholarly...
Read moreInterested in pursuing a PhD in HRI (topic: trust in robots) in Vienna? Potentially, with me as co-advisor? http://trustrobots.eu/
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I am happy to announce that my first publication on my new FWF Elise-Richter project SharedSpace was accepted for publication for a workshop held in conjunction with PETRA2018: Social Robots. A Workshop on the Past, the Present and the...
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Last Friday I attended the first Austrian HCI Networking event, organized by Katta Spiel (PhD student TU Wien) and Alina Krischkowsky (PhD student University of Salzburg). It was a great event, where I had the chance to meet former...
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