Organizers

Alessandra Sciutti
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Alessandra Sciutti is the head of the Cognitive Robotics and Interaction Laboratory of the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa, (Italy), where she investigates the sensory-motor bases of human-human and human-robot interaction. She received her Ph.D. in Humanoid Technologies from the University of Genova in 2010 and after a research period at the Robotics Lab of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (2011) and at the Emergent Robotics Laboratory of Osaka University (2014) she became Researcher at IIT. She has authored 20 papers in international journals, 2 book chapters and has presented her work at a number of international conferences in the field of human-robot interaction, cognitive and perceptual sciences.


Friederike Eyssel
Bielefeld University

Friederike Eyssel is Professor of Psychology and head of the Group „Applied Social Psychology and Gender Research“ at the Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University, Germany. Friederike Eyssel has earned her Masters Degree in psychology from University of Heidelberg (Germany) in 2004. She received her PhD in social psychology from University of Bielefeld in 2007. Friederike Eyssel has held visiting professorship of social psychology at the University of Münster, the Technical University of Dortmund, the University of Cologne, and New York University in Abu Dhabi. Moreover, she co-founded a new conference series, the ‘Joint UAE Symposium on Social Robotics’ (JSSR 2015, 2016, 2017. Her main research interests in the domain of social robotics focus on psychological mechanisms of successful humanmachine interaction, anthropomorphism, education robotics, and social implications of assistive technology developments.


Katrin Solveig Lohan
Heriot-Watt University

Katrin Lohan joined the school of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University as an assistant Professor in 2013. She is deputy director of the Robotics Lab. She became SICSA team leader in the Cyber Physical Systems research theme in 2016. She was General Chair for the European Robotics Forum 2017. She is hired under the Global Platform Recruitment for Research Leaders and part of the Edinburgh Centre for robotics. Previously, she was working at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) as a Post Doc in the RobotDoc project funded by the Marie Curie Fellowship. She obtained her Ph.D. in Engineering from Bielefeld University, Germany in 2012, where she was associated with the ITALK Project. Her main research interests are in understanding the learning mechanisms between parents and infants, between adults and adults, and between humans and robots in order to create a natural interaction with a robot. Furthermore, she is interested in deep learning of semantic objects, both through vision and speech.


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