Embodied cognition, robots, and HRI
Friday October 2nd 2015, 09:00-11:00 a.m.
Venue: B102 room, Department of Industrial Engineering, via Sommarive 9, Povo - Trento
- Serge Thill, University of Skövde
This lecture introduces concepts of cognitive science particularly pertinent to the interaction between cognitive agents (which can be natural - like humans, or artificial - like robots or autonomous vehicles). In particular, I will talk about different conceptions of embodied theories of cognition, to illustrate amongst others that the issues at play go beyond aspects of sensorimotor interaction (such as symbol grounding) that are typically of interest to roboticists.
The lecture then explores the consequences for the design of robots and the field of HRI in particular. The aim is to provide a general overview of the different topics that can be of interest rather in order to stimulate further thoughts and discussions.
Short bio:
Serge Thill is an associate professor of cognitive science at the University of Skövde, Sweden. Thill currently heads the Interaction Lab research group at the school of informatics. His main research interests are in natural and artificial cognition, in particular as manifested in the interaction between such agents.
He holds a Bachelor of Science (with Honours) in Cognitive Science from the University of Exeter, a Master in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD from the department of engineering at the University of Leicester. He joined the University of Skövde in 2008, first as a post-doc, then as a senior lecturer, and, since January 2014, in his current role.
He has co-authored the EU FP7 integrated project "DREAM" (www.dream2020.eu) on robot-enhanced therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder. He co-coordinates (with Tom Ziemke) the Swedish research initiative "AIR", on action and intention recognition between humans and automated technology in shared physical spaces and has been/is the PI for two projects (CARS and TIEB), on human interaction with cars, funded nationally.
The poster is on the dowload box.
