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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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...
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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.
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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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https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/detail/news/relationships-with-robots/ unfortunately only in German
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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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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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