Symposium ‘Human-Robot Bonding’

Friday March 21st, Forum 3, Hoofdgebouw, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Note that registrations for this symposium are closed.

 

Schedule

10:30-10:45 Walk-in with coffee
10:45-11:05 Opening
  • Prof. dr. Elly Konijn
11:05-12:05 Presentations and Discussion Theme 1 "Grounding and Bonding"
  • Prof. dr. Tony Belpaeme, Universiteit Gent, "Value-aware social robots"
  • Dr. Paul Vogt, Universiteit Groningen, "Grounding 'bonds' with social robots"
  • Peggy van Minkelen, MA, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, "Dynamics of human-robot turn-taking on affective bonding in longitudinal HRI"
12:05-12:10 Short coffee break
12:10-13:10 Presentations and Discussion Theme 2 "Adaptive Human-Robot Interaction"
  • Dr. Maryam Alimardani, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, "Neuroadaptive human-robot interaction"
  • Prof. dr. Panos Markopoulos, Universiteit Eindhoven, "A Delphi study on LLM-powered educational robots"
  • Dr. ir. Kim Baraka, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, "Towards robot apprentices: can bonding help?"
13:10-13:50 Lunch
13:50-14:50 Presentations and Discussion Theme 3 "Robots in Society"
  • Dr. Emilia Barakova, Universiteit Eindhoven, "Do children bond with educational robots?"
  • Dr. ing. Matthijs Smakman, Hogeschool Utrecht, "Robots for children in hospitals"
  • Jiaxin Xu, MSc, MA, Universiteit Eindhoven, "Does care lead to bonds? Exploring the relationship between human caregiving for robots and human-robot bonding"
14:50-15:00 Short coffee break
15:00-16:00 Presentations and Discussion Theme 4 "Conversational Dynamics of Robot Interaction"
  • Prof. dr. Koen Hindriks, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, "Meaningful interaction with a robot"
  • Dr. Maartje de Graaf, Universiteit Utrecht, "Robots, communicative failures and repair"
  • Dr. Ruud Hortensius, Universiteit Utrecht, "Social cognition in the age of robots and algorithms: from individual to group dynamics"
16:00-16:30 General discussion
16:30-16:35 Closing
  • Prof. dr. Elly Konijn
16:35 Drinks & snacks