Social Robotics Lab Seminars: Fall Semester 2020/2021
The seminars of the Social Robotics Lab in the Fall semester of 2020/2021 will take place on Fridays, 17:00-19:00 CET. The mettings will be held via Cisco Webex Meetings (invitation via email is necessary to join).
The SLR website is currently in preparation. Meanwhile, you can find the information related to our seminars below.
Seminar times and talks
February 26, 2021 (Friday), 17:00-19:00 CET
Speakers: Ania Kołbasa, Basia Wziętek Chair: Aleksandra Samonek Note-taking: Sharon Spisak
February 12, 2021 (Friday), 17:00-19:00 CET
Speaker: Anna Kołbasa
Chair: Paulina Zguda
Note-taking: Sharon Spisak
January 22, 2021 (Friday), 17:30-19:00 CET
Speaker: Paulina Zguda
Chair: Ania Chudzik
Note-taking: Anna Kołbasa
January 8, 2021 (Friday), 17:00-19:00 CET
Speaker: Anna Chudzik
Chair: Magdalena Kaczmarek
Note-taking: Anna Kołota
December 18, 2020 (Friday), 17:00-19:00 CET
Speakers: Anna Kołbasa, Barbara Wziętek
Chair: Sharon Spisak
Note-taking: Iwona Przybył
December 4, 2020 (Friday), 17:00-19:00 CET
Speakers: Magdalena Kaczmarek, Bartłomiej Lechowicz
Chair: Aleksandra Samonek
Note-taking: Anna Chudzik
Magdalena Kaczmarek, CoZ: A crowd-powered system for social robotics
Recommended readings:
- Abbas, T., Khan, V.-J., Gadiraju, U., Barakova, E., & Markopoulos, P. (2020). Crowd of Oz: A Crowd-powered Teleoperation System for Enhanced Human-Robot Conversations. Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 81–83. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378335
- Abbas, T., Khan, V.-J., & Markopoulos, P. (2020). CoZ: A crowd-powered system for social robotics. SoftwareX, 11, 100421. URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2020.100421
Bartłomiej Lechowicz, The impact of COVID-19 on HRI research
Recommended readings:
- Feil-Seifer, D., Haring, K. S., Rossi, S., Wagner, A. R., & Williams, T. (2020). Where to next? The impact of COVID-19 on human-robot interaction research. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), 10(1), 1-7. URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3405450
November 20, 2020 (Friday), 17:00-19:00 CET
Speakers: Aleksandra Samonek, Iwona Przybył
Chair: Bartłomiej Lechowicz
Note-taking: Barbara Wziętek
Aleksandra Samonek, How robots use language and what it means for applying social robotics to language learning
Recommended readings:
- van den Berghe, R., Verhagen, J., Oudgenoeg-Paz, O., Van der Ven, S., & Leseman, P. (2019). Social robots for language learning: A review. Review of Educational Research, 89(2), 259-295. URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0034654318821286
- Tellex, S., Gopalan, N., Kress-Gazit, H., & Matuszek, C. (2020). Robots that use language. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 3, 25-55. URL: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-control-101119-071628
November 13, 2020 (Friday), 17:00-19:00 CET
Speakers: Sharon Spisak, Paulina Zguda
Chair: Anna Kołota
Note-taking: Paulina Zguda
Sharon Spisak, Why do we need cognitively biased robots?
Sharon introduced the biases used in the human-robot interaction research by Biswas and Murray, together with two sets of experiments (ERWIN, MyKeepon).
Recommended readings:
- Biswas, M., & Murray, J. C. (2015, September). Towards an imperfect robot for long-term companionship: case studies using cognitive biases. In 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 5978-5983). IEEE. URL: http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/19657/1/IROS15_Final_Biswas_Murray.pdf
Paulina Zguda, Anna Kołota, On the Role of Trust in Child-Robot Interaction
Anna and Paulina gave an introduction to the 2019 project conducted together with Bipin Indurkhya.They investigated the process of building trust in children towards robots and how it is influenced by the children’s perception of the robot during the first encounter.
October 31, 2020 (Saturday), 17:00-19:00 CET
Kickoff meeting