May 13, 2014
What makes social robots social? In the Social Robotics Lab at Yale, this question is mostly answered by investigating the effects of robots on human behavior and human-robot interaction (HRI). That raised the interest of Andreas Bischof, a PhD student from Germany. He researches how HRI and social robotics successfully deals with the challenge of creating technically and socially appropriate embodied computational models. We’re pleased to have him visiting with us this month to gain insight into our lab’s work and a mutual exchange of research methods.
Andreas’s qualitative analysis of the modeling and construction of social robots has lead him to visit and examine robotics projects in Europe, the United States, and Japan. This travel is part of an interdisciplinary research project funded by the German Research Foundation at University of Technology Chemnitz. This research interest and the resulting exchange shows the importance of academic efforts over disciplinary boundaries in order to cope with the complexity of robotic systems working in everyday environments.