Antonio Chella
Università degli Studi di Palermo
The talk will present the research carried out at the RoboticsLab of the University of Palermo, Italy concerning the strategic coupling of cognitive robotics modeling and empirical human-robot interaction experiments to analyze the role of inner speech and emotions in the development of trust interactions between humans and robots. The research takes direct inspiration from psychology studies on inner speech and emotions in human self-consciousness.
In the presented investigations, human-robot interaction experiments analyzed the role of the robot inner speech and robot emotions in human participants’ building and sustaining trust in robots. Experiments were conducted with the humanoid robot platform Pepper. These empirical studies informed and constrained the design of a cognitive architecture for the building of trust relations in autonomous robots.
Mark Sparvell
Microsoft Education
With the sudden explosion of online remoted learning driven by physical school lockdowns two things happened- valuable physical social connections were removed and simultaneously, new possibilities emerged to create and connect. In this session Mark will explore the role technology can play in supporting educators as the design social and emotional learning opportunities, to listen at scale and understand and respond the emotional landscape of classrooms and schools through analytic insights.