News from Human+


Attitude

06 April 2022

What is the impact of culture on implicit and explicit attitudes towards artificial agents? In a new preprint, Fabi Diana answers this question across two experiments. Very exciting start of a new collaboration between #humanplus and the CoPAN lab!

Read the preprint and explore the data and task.


Child-robot interaction

15 March 2022

A first child-robot interaction study for Human+ Luca stared data collection for her MSc-project on the developmental aspects of reciprocity and relationship formation during child-robot interaction. In collaboration with two schools, she will do both public outreach (“a day full of robots”) and experimental testing (100+ children). Super exciting work by Luca!

The first day:


Smell and robots

10 March 2022

A new preprint in collaboration with Ilja Croijmans on an unexplored part of human-robot interaction, smell! Together with a group of fantastic BSc-students, we test the influence of smell on trust behaviour during human-robot collaboration. Read the preprint, explore the data or read the preregistration.


Embodied AI workshop

02 December 2021

The Embodied AI initiative keeps growing. Thanks to funding from the Human-Centered AI focus area, we will organise a workshop on Embodied AI in 2023. Keep up to date on the latest Embodied AI and visit our website or follow us on twitter.


Embodied AI talk

25 November 2021

Very excited to host professor Ana Paiva (University of Lisbon) during the monthly Embodied AI seminar series (25 November 16:00 CET). The tile of the talk is ‘Engineering sociality and Collaboration: Humans and Embodied Agents Together’. More information on the talk can be found on our website, twitter and on the UU website.

For upcoming talks, do check our twitter feed!