Mentors

Dr. Ana Paiva

Computer Science & Engineering, Technical University of Lisbon

Intelligent agents and synthetic characters, socially assistive robots, multi-agent simulation systems, embodied conversational agents.

Dr. Bertram Malle

Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Studies, Brown University

Moral psychology, social cognition, moral competence in robots, socially assistive robotics.

Dr. Cindy Bethel

Computer Science and Engineering,

Mississippi State University

Applications associated with robot therapeutic support, information gathering from children, and the use of robots for law enforcement, search and rescue, and military operations.

Dr. Cristina Wilson* 

Collaborative Robotics & Intelligent Systems,

Oregon State University

Human-robot teaming for uncertain and dynamic problem-solving, refining and deepening the decision support that mobile robots can provide to address the real-world challenges faced by domain experts.

Dr. Filipa Correia 

Computer Science & Engineering,

Interactive Technologies Institute

Affective interaction, social robotics, group interaction, human-robot collaboration, robotic teammates, human-robot trust.

Dr. Hee Rin Lee 

Media & Information, Michigan State University

Robots for social good, participatory design, collaborative design, critical design, health and social informatics.

Dr. Maartje de Graaf

Information & Computer Science, University of Utrecht 

Robots for society, communication science, experimental studies, qualitative studies, complex data analysis, long-term field studies.

Dr. Malte Jung

Information Science, Cornell University 

Intersections of teamwork, robots and emotion; interpersonal dynamics in human-robot groups and teams.