Institutionen för naturvetenskap och teknik

AASS Seminar - Recognizing and communicating intentions for social robots: some work done at Halmstad University for the Sidus AIR project

12 oktober 2017 13:00 T207, Teknikhuset

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Alessandro Saffiotti

The research centre AASS arranges a seminar with Martin Cooney, Halmstad University.

Abstract

In this seminar I will describe some work conducted recently at Halmstad University,  rebro University's partner on the Sidus AIR project, with the aim of possibly building some new bridges and facilitating collaboration.  First I will briefly introduce my interest (social robotics), my group, and some of the resources we have available.  Next I will describe some knowledge we have obtained in working with topics such as medicine adherence monitoring, emotional art, and playfulness.  In particular some questions touched upon will include:

Can a robot infer some recent events without directly observing them? How can a robot's motions convey various emotions?

Speaker's Bio

Martin Cooney received a Ph.D. degree in systems innovation, engineering science, from Osaka University, Japan, in 2014; from 2008 to 2014, he was also an intern researcher at Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto. 

Since 2014, he has been a researcher at the Intelligent Systems Lab at Halmstad University, Sweden, and part of the health tech and intelligent home groups; recently, from May to June, 2017, he was also a visiting researcher at Karde in Oslo, Norway.  His interest is sensing and actuation strategies for robots intended to support well-being in interacting persons.