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Modelling the Social Buffering Hypothesis in an Artificial Life Environment

Does Expression of Grounded Affect in a Hexapod Robot Elicit More Prosocial Responses?

A Socially Adaptable Framework for Human-Robot Interaction

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Dr Lola Canamero is Reader in Adaptive Systems and Head of the Embodied Emotion Cognition and (inter-) action Lab (EECAIA) at the University of Hertfordshire. She works with robots to understand human behaviour and to examine the emotions between humans and robots when they are being used to provide therapy or as learning opportunities. She focuses on motivated behaviour and social interaction, with particular emphasis on the role that emotional phenomena and their expression play in them. Projects include modelling obsessive-compulsive disorder and mental disorders through robots, and supporting children with diabetes through encouragement of care for an autonomous robot toddler who also “has” (robot) diabetes. 

After originally studying Philosophy, Lola turned to AI first and then to embodied cognitive and affective robotics as a way of exploring questions such as: What are the key features of human and animal emotions that can be shared by autonomous robots in similar environments?; How do emotions affect behaviour and cognition?; How did emotions evolve?; How can emotions help robots to make “good” decisions?; How can emotions make robots interact with people better?

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Robot with diabetes developed in Hertfordshire

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Reader in Adaptive Systems and Head of the Embodied Emotion Cognition and (inter-) action Lab

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