The HIT Lab NZ at the Canterbury University (Christchurch, New Zealand) has the following vacancy for a PhD student: Understanding Anthropomorphism and Animacy In The Interaction Between Users and Robots Project description Robots that interact with humans are becoming increasingly important in our society. However, their life-like appearance and behavior is challenging their acceptance. In [...]
I have been able to acquire scholarships for students to come and work in New Zealand during the summer (November-February). Please do consider applying for them to have a productive and amazing summer in Christchurch. MARS function – Graphical User Interface Development Construction of a Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) Improving Face Identification with Genealogical [...]
Omar’s thesis “ROILA – Robot Interaction Language” has been printed. Please join us for his defense on June 1st, 16:00h in lecture theater 4 at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
Today I had the pleasure of attending Zerrin Kasap’s PhD defense at the MIRALab, University of Geneva. Zerrin did an excellent job and after the ceremony she and Nadia M. Thalmann gave us a lab tour. Zerrin demonstrated an interaction with EVA. The skin of this Hanson Robotics creation is amazing.
Call For Papers November 24-25, 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://www.icsr2011.org The International Conference on Social Robotics brings researchers and practitioners together to report on and discuss the state-of-the-art research in the field of social robotics. The conference focuses particularly on social interaction between humans and robots, the integration of robots into our society, and the [...]