Invited Speakers

Friederike Eyssel is Professor of Psychology and Head of the research group “Applied Social Psychology and Gender Research” at the Research Center “Cognitive Interaction Technology” (CITEC) at Bielefeld University. Friederike Eyssel earned her Masters degree in Psychology from University of Heidelberg in 2004. She received her PhD in Psychology from Bielefeld University in 2007. Dr. Eyssel has held visiting professorships in social psychology at the University of Münster, the Technical University of Dortmund, the University of Cologne, and the New York University Abu Dhabi. Dr. Eyssel is passionate about basic and applied social psychological and gender research and she is interested in various research topics ranging from social robotics, social agents, and ambient intelligence to research on attitudes, their measurement and change as well as gender research. Crossing disciplines, Dr. Eyssel has published her research in leading journals in the field of social psychology social robotics. Her work on robot gender has recently been published in Nature (Tannenbaum, Ellis, Eyssel et al., 2019). Friederike Eyssel has attracted third-party funding for various projects at the national and international level, and is currently running several interdisciplinary third-party funded projects on trust, robot design, acceptance, and successful social HRI and behavior change (see, for example, http://www.perseo.eu/, https://navelrobotics.com/en/research-project-viva/ or https://neo-milk.uni-koeln.de/ ).

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Anne-Sophie Rigaud (MD, PhD in Neurosciences) is a geriatrician and a psychiatrist. She is a Professor in Geriatrics at Université de Paris. She heads the geriatric department in Broca hospital and the Memory Centre of Resources and Research for Alzheimer Disease in Ile de France (Broca Site). She is also responsible for the French National Centre of Expertise for Cognitive Stimulation using Technical Aids (CEN STIMCO) and a Research Unit dedicated to Alzheimer's disease: risk factors, treatment and support for patients and their families at the Université de Paris. Anne-Sophie Rigaud has expertise in dementia and gerontechnology. She has developed the Broca Lusage Living lab (LL), which is specialized in the use of technologies for healthy and cognitively impaired older adults. She is interested in the development of methodology for the assessment of users’ needs, as well as the evaluation of the usability, acceptance, and impact of psychosocial interventions in older adults delivered by means of communication technologies. Anne-Sophie Rigaud has been involved in National and European collaborative projects in robotics for older adults (QuoVadis, PRAMAD, Robadom, Mudialbot, CompanionAble, Spring, E-VITA) for more than 15 years. She is co-author in 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals including 175 publications indexed in PubMed.