AASS Seminar - Group Intelligence in Social Robots

The research centre AASS arranges a seminar with Filipa Correia, INESC-ID, Lisbon.

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(Dial-in +46 8 5016 3827, Meeting ID: 650 9662 3293)

Abstract

Recently, the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) has been paying close attention to group inter-actions. These types of interactions refer to multi-party settings that extend (traditional) dyads of one person and one robot, to cases where there are multiple people and/or multiple robots. My PhD thesis was focused on the challenges of creating social robots that are capable of sustaining cohesive alliances in team settings with humans. The contributions include empirical user studies analysing membership preferences (i.e., social cohesion) and group identification (i.e., collective cohesion) and how those can be influenced by different social behaviours of robotic teammates or by other factors e.g., the outcome of the team. Moreover, it contributes with computational mechanisms for the robotic teammate to autonomously express group-based emotions or to gaze human teammates in multi-party settings.

Bio

Filipa Correia received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2021. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Interaction Technologies Institute. Her multidisciplinary research tackles the intersection of robotics, computer science and social psychology (i.e., human-robot interaction), and it is particularly focused on group dynamics between humans and robots in collaborative scenarios.