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...
Read moreI am happy to announce that I will be co-organizing a Dagstuhl Seminar in 2019 on the topic: Ethics and Trust: Principles, Verification and Validation For more details click here
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Last week I attended the Robo-Philosopohy conference hosted by University of Vienna. The conference theme was: Envisioning Robots In Society: Politics, Power, And Public Space. I was delighted by the 2 keynotes I manged to attend by Guy...
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So last week, my husband, the little one and I spent some time in the desert. More precisely in the United Arab Emirates (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Al Ain). I attended the 3rd Joint UAE Symposium on Social Robotics as invited speaker...
Read moreHow will the future Human-Chatbot Relationship look like…read it on futurism (also involving a short paragraph with my 2 cents 😉 )
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