News from Human+

It’s real! It’s happening! Ruud received an ERC Starting Grant for the F-AI-MILY project! A super exciting and big step for Human+. From 2024 to 2029, Human+ will investigate the impact of AI on the social dynamics of families! Read more about this here

There will be PhD, postdoc, and RA positions available! More information soon!

Absolutely trilled that I have been awarded an@ERC_Research Starting Grant! This is so massive I can barely comprehend. This one is for all my mentors, colleagues, friends, partner, family, and for little me who (almost) failed high school. 🥳🥳🥳F-AI-MILY is real and happening! https://t.co/J8gu4UeOms

— Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius@fediscience.org (@RuudHortensius) September 5, 2023</blockquote>

Over the past month, Ruud and Dorka have been working on the new fNIRS setup that was acquired by the Department of Psychology at Utrecht. Super excited for things to come! In the next few months we will be working to use fNIRS to sudy the neurocognition of HRI in situ!

And…we have an active fNIRS system. Very excited to start some new social cognition projects including fNIRS! 🧠 #fnirs #socialneuroscience pic.twitter.com/Kl1VwraMUJ

— Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius@fediscience.org (@RuudHortensius) March 23, 2023</blockquote>

A great privilege to be part of this symposium on the future of psychology and robots. Thanks to @socialneuro chairing this session! #icps23be was inspiring, so great to be part of this interdisciplinary community! https://t.co/c7r3b9gRJb

— Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius@fediscience.org (@RuudHortensius) March 13, 2023</blockquote>

What is the impact of video calls on mimicry? Or what is the effect of different interaction settings on the mimicry of phylogenetically old behaviours and the perceived trustworthiness of a partner? Read Fabi’s new study in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B!

Some expressions are mimicked to the same extent in video calls and face-to-face interaction!

Check our last paper in the "Face2Face: Advancing the Science of Social Interaction" special issue👇🏽https://t.co/dt2ivP2bd4@MariskaKret @RuudHortensius @RSocPublishing @CoPAN_Leiden https://t.co/NgqJ4uZ2wr

— Fabiola Diana (@FabiolaDianaa) March 6, 2023</blockquote>

Fabi received a JSPS fellowship for a research project combining cross-cultural effects, pupil size, eye tracking, and human-robot interaction! Super exciting work together with Mariska Kret.

Starting my JSPS-founded fellowship just in time for #hanami. Excited for my cross-cultural study on the effect of pupil size on honesty in human-robot interaction.
So grateful to conduct my research in the stunning Tokyo 🌺@jsps_sns @RuudHortensius @MariskaKret @CoPAN_Leiden pic.twitter.com/tPoNSCO7U8

— Fabiola Diana (@FabiolaDianaa) March 6, 2023</blockquote>