Organisers

Guy Laban (guy.laban@glasgow.ac.uk) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow and a PhD candidate at the school of Psychology and Neuroscience of the University of Glasgow. Guy is interested with the neuropsychological mechanisms that underlay human–robot interactions, and the affect of these interactions. Guy's research is aimed at exploring how people disclose their emotions and needs to social robots, and how these, in turn, can reduce stress and burden.

Sebastien Le Maguer is a research fellow at the ADAPT Centre at Trinity College Dublin. His work focuses on developing methodologies to analyze synthetic speech. His interests lie in creating bridges between speech technology, speech science and other communities which are using synthetic speech.

Minha Lee​ (​m.lee@tue.nl​) is an assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the department of Industrial Design, with a background in philosophy, digital arts, and HCI. She researches on morally relevant interactions with technological agents like robots or chatbots, and is involved in the Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) community. Her recent work explores how our moral self-identity could develop through conversations with digital entities, for example via acting compassionately towards a chatbot.

Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos (diko@kth.se​) is a PhD student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and is interested in how conversational agents’ embodiment and non-verbal behaviors affect the process of establishing, maintaining and repairing common ground. During his PhD he has been a Visiting Research Scholar at Microsoft Research in Redmond and Potsdam University. He has previously co-organised the Young Researchers’ workshop in dialogue systems (YRRSDS 2019) and the doctoral consortium of Interspeech 2017.

Samantha Reig is a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. Her research interests include agent embodiment and identity in socially complex contexts, multi-person-multi-embodiment interactions, robot re-embodiment, and designing for human-agent teaming in space.

Ilaria Torre​ (​ilariat@kth.se​) is a postdoctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She is interested in artificial agents’ communicative and affective cues, particularly through speech, and how these affect cooperation and trust in Human-Agent Interaction. She previously worked as a postdoc at Trinity College Dublin, and holds a PhD from the University of Plymouth. She organised a satellite workshop of HAI 2018, “Measuring and Designing Trust in Human-Agent Interaction”​, the ​UK Speech 2018​ conference, and the ColLaboratoire 2016 Summer School.

Ravi Tejwani is a graduate student in Personal Robots Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work focuses on modeling the behavior of the conversational AI agent with the user from verbal and non-verbal cues using deep learning techniques. Ravi’s most recent work on Migratable AI explored the migration of AI agent across different robotic embodiments.

Matthew J. Dennis is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow in the Department of Values, Technology, and Innovation at TU Delft. He specialises in digital well-being, focusing on how technology can increase human flourishing. He writes on how we can improve the design of emerging technologies (social robots, virtual assistants, self-care apps, etc.), as well as how digital well-being is affected by gender, education, and economic factors. Questions relating to identity feature throughout his work, most recently in his article on how social robots can be used to facilitate processes of personal transformation.

André Pereira​ (​atap@kth.se​) is a researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He completed his PhD at IST Technical University of Lisbon, worked as a Postdoc at Yale University and as a Senior Research Associate at Disney Research. André’s primary research goal is to create autonomous embodied agents, typically robots, that can socially interact with humans throughout extended periods. Concerning the topics of this workshop, he has worked on agents that can 'migrate' data and visual identity between social robots and mobile phones. He is now interested in how agents that can migrate between devices can affect users’ motivation to interact with digital assistants.