Scientists Meet Scientists – TUM-IAS Wednesday Coffee Talk by Prof. Agnieszka Wykowska: “Human cognition in Human-Robot Interaction and Neuroengineering”
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On 19 June 2024, Hans Fischer Senior Fellow Prof. Agnieszka Wykowska (Italian Institute of Technology) will talk about “Human cognition in Human-Robot Interaction and Neuroengineering.”
Abstract:
As modern technology advances, we are designing increasingly sophisticated tools to support and assist humans. However, it is crucial to not only focus on the technology, but also to address the mechanisms of human cognition during the use of the technology. It is those mechanisms that will eventually determine whether the technology is efficacious and well accepted by users.
In my lab, we study the mechanisms of human cognition in interaction between humans and humanoid robots. With cognitive neuroscience methods, we seek to understand how attention operates during collaborative tasks with the robots, how the human users attune to the robot during joint action, whether they experience sense of agency when teleoperating the robot and sense of joint of agency when they are engaged in a shared task with the robot. In this talk, I will present results from my lab related to the above topics that have been obtained with the use of cognitive neuroscience methods (EEG and eye tracking) in human-humanoid interaction protocols. I will then discuss how these research questions (and respective findings) can be translated from human-humanoid interaction to Neuroengineering.
Date: June 19, 2024
Time: 13:00 CEST (until approx. 14:00)
Location: online
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