Zoom link:

https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/65132420132

Human-Centred and Biologically Inspired Studies with Social Robots

Abstract:

Over the past 25+ years I've been involved in numerous projects studying  human-robot interaction and social robotics.  My talk will illustrate several projects that were either biologically inspired, or inspired by concepts and mechanisms in psychology  or social sciences. In recent years one focus of my research has been on co-design for applications such as robot-assisted therapy for children with speech and language challenges. Such application oriented research needs to take a dedicated human-centred perspective and requires close collaboration with users and stakeholders who are involved at all stages of the research project. My talk will discuss challenges and opportunities of laboratory-based versus real-world, application focused research.