Organizers
Shruti Chandra
She is a Postdoctoral fellow in SIRRL in the University of Waterloo, Canada funded by Canada 150 Research Chairs Program. She holds a Joint PhD degree in ECE from EPFL, Switzerland and IST, Portugal. Her current research focuses on using social robots in the areas of assistive robotics, Inter-generational game play and well-being of people.
Marta Couto
She is a Postdoctoral fellow at INESC-ID, GAIPS. She received a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology in 2016 from ISPA, and she has been working on HRI since then. Research interests include HRI, specially child-robot interactions, and cognitive models, mainly working memory and cognitive load.
Elmira Yadollahi
She is a Doctoral fellow in the joint program between EPFL, Switzerland and IST, Portugal. She is currently focusing on developing cognitive models for embodied agents such as robots in educational child-robot interactions, which includes working on generating a decision-making model of perspective-taking that helps robots to make informed decisions while collaborating with children.