Programme

Close to robots: human responses to collaboration with robots

Format: Oral presentation 45 min | Language: English | Tags: psychology, social, research
Speaker: Vanessa Evers | Human Computer Studies Lab – University of Amsterdam

This talk considers a not too distant future where robots will be part of our daily lives. These robots will interact with us in a way similar to how we interact with each other. Such social interaction between humans and robots brings about many challenges for the design of social robot behaviours. Findings from recent research on human-robot collaboration will be presented to offer insight in how people perceive and trust robots, in what way human attitudes toward robots is influenced and international differences in human responses to social robots.

About Vanessa
Vanessa Evers received a M.SC. in Information Systems from the University of Amsterdam, and a Ph. D. from the Open University, UK. During her Master studies she spent two years at the Institute of Management Information Studies of the University of New South Wales, Sydney. After her Ph.D. she has worked for the Boston Consulting Group, London and later became an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam’s social Science Informatics group (2002) and currently at the Interactive Autonomous Systems group of the Institute of Informatics. She was a visiting researcher at Stanford University (2005-2007). Her research interests focus on on interaction with intelligent and autonomous systems such as robots or machine learning systems as well as cultural aspects of Human Computer Interaction. She has published over 80 peer reviewed publications, many of which in high quality journals and conferences in human computer interaction and human robot interaction. She serves on Program Committees of HRI, HSI, CSCW and ACM Multimedia. Dr. Evers won the best thesis prize awarded by the Dutch National Society of Registered Information Specialists, was co-author of the James Chen best paper award of the journal on User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction together with her Ph.D. student Henriette Cramer. She is a member of ACM.