Organizers
Alessandra Sciutti
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Alessandra Sciutti received her Ph.D. in Humanoid Technologies
from the University of Genoa (Italy) in 2010. After an experience of
one year at the Robotics Lab of the Rehabilitation Institute of
Chicago, she is currently working as a Researcher at the Robotics,
Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department of the Istituto Italiano di
Tecnologia (IIT). Currently, she is visiting the Emergent Robotics Lab of the Osaka University. Her research activity mainly concerns how motor
control and perception laws apply to human- human and human-
robot interaction.
Katrin Solveig Lohan
Heriot-Watt University
Katrin Solveig Lohan joined the school of Mathematical and
Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University as a Lecturer in
2013. She is deputy director of the Robotics Lab. Previously, she
was working at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), as a junior
Post Doc in the RobotDoc project founded 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 as Ph.D. student. Her main research interests are
in understanding the learning mechanisms between parents and
infant, between adults and adults, and between humans and robots
in order to create a natural interaction with a robot.
Yukie Nagai
Osaka University
Yukie Nagai is a Specially Appointed Associate Professor at
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University in Japan. She
received her Ph.D. in Engineering from Osaka University in 2004
and worked as a postdoc researcher at National Institute of
Information and Communications Technology in Kyoto from 2004
to 2006. She then worked at Bielefeld University, Germany for
three and a half year until she started her current position at Osaka
University in October 2009. Her research interests include the
developmental mechanism of human social cognition such as
self/other cognition, imitation, joint attention, and cooperation. She
has been investigating how human infants acquire such abilities
through interaction with their caregivers by means of constructive
approaches.
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