Topic: human-robot interaction

Why should psychologists be interested in robots? This talk aims to illustrate how social robots – machines with human-like features and behaviors – can offer interesting insights into the human mind. I will first provide a brief overview of how robots have been used in psychology and cognitive science research focusing on two approaches - Developmental Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). We will then delve into recent works in HRI, including my own, in greater detail. We will also address the limitations of research thus far, such as the lack of proper controlled experiments, and dis

Due to the aging population and life digitalization, humanoid robots could be seen as potential community resources to accompany the elderly, support remote work, and improve individuals' mental or physical health. To enhance human-robot interaction, it is essential for robots to become more socialized via processing multiple social cues in a complex real-world environment. Thus, social cues integration and crossmodal conflict resolution are crucial for humanoid robots to implement social interaction. I will present a series of studies to explore the following questions: 1) how human participa

Designing artificially intelligent systems and interfaces with socio-emotional skills is a challenging task. Progress in industry and developments in academia provide us a positive outlook, however, the artificial social and emotional intelligence of the current technology is still limited. My lab’s research has been pushing the state of the art in a wide spectrum of research topics in this area, including the design and creation of new datasets; novel feature representations and learning algorithms for sensing and understanding human nonverbal behaviours in solo, dyadic and group settings; de