Organization Committee

• Alessandra Rossi, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK)
  a.rossi@herts.ac.uk

  

  Alessandra is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow / PhD student at the School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Kerstin Dautenhahn. She is also a Visiting Lecturer at University of Hertfordshire. Alessandra received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Naples "Federico II", and her M.Sc. degrees thesis is entitled "Human Multirobot Interaction in Robot and Group Selection Tasks". Her research interests include multi-agent systems, social robotics, Human–(Multi)Robot Interaction, home companion and user profiling. Alessandra is also an active member of the RoboCup soccer team "Bold Hearts", University of Hertfordshire.

• Dr. Kheng Lee Koay, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK)
  k.l.koay@herts.ac.uk

  

  Kheng Lee is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. He is also a member in the Adaptive Systems Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire, where he was previously research fellow. Kheng Lee received his B.Sc. degree in Robotics and Automated Systems and Ph.D. degree from the University of Plymouth, U.K. in 1997 and 2003, respectively. His research interests include mobile robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, social robotics, home companion, agent migration. He is a former member of the Centre for Neural and Adaptive Systems at the University of Plymouth. He was involved in several European projects, such as LIREC and Accompany.

• Sílvia Moros, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK)
  s.moros@herts.ac.uk

  

  Sílvia is a research assistant at the University of Hertfordshire. She received an industrial engineering degree at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), and a PAIR Master degree in Automated Production and Robotics at the Fundació CIM - UPC. She is currently obtaining a Master degree in robotics at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, and she is studying psychology at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). She is primarily concerned with the EU Horizon2020 BabyRobot project. Her research interests include social robotics, Human-Robot Interaction and design of robotics behaviours for children with autism.

• Dr. Patrick Holthaus, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK)
  p.holthaus@herts.ac.uk

  

  Patrick is a research fellow in the Adaptive Systems research group at the University of Hertfordshire. He is primarily concerned with the robot house as a research facility. His research interests include cognitive systems, human-robot interaction, and social communication signs in the spatial dimension. In February 2015, Patrick received his Ph.D. on the topic of an "Integrated concept of spatial awareness" which has been supervised and reviewed by Sven Wachsmuth and Giorgio Metta. His thesis originates from research conducted in the Applied Informatics Group and SFB 673 "Alignment in Communication" at Bielefeld University where he also received the master's degree in computer science.

• Marcus Scheunemann, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK)
  m.scheunemann@herts.ac.uk

  

  Marcus is a PhD candidate at the School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Kerstin Dautenhahn. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at University of Hertfordshire. He received his M.Sc. degree at the Ulm University in Germany. His research interests include Human-(Multi)Robot Interaction, artificial intelligence, navigation, sensor fusion, social robotics. Marcus was team leader of the RoboCup soccer team "Nao Team Humboldt", Humboldt University of Berlin, and he is currently team leader of the RoboCup soccer team "Bold Hearts", University of Hertfordshire.