RO_MAN2021 was fully virtual this year, but I have to say it was a very pleasant experience. On the one hand, I am just getting used the these virtual conference formats, on the other hands there were really some exciting and insightful papers...
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Our short paper on the SharedSpace project, especially focussing on the insights we gained during the pandemic won the best poster award at the virtual HAI2020 conference. You can download and watch the presentation of it here...
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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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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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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...
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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...
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...
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