Academic projects
Roles and contributions across human–robot interaction and developmental psychology.
Full publications on Google Scholar(opens in a new tab)Conferences
Academic conferences
Program Committee
- 2024
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR)
Area Chair
- 2024
Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII)
Associate Chair for Doctoral Consortium Papers
- 2024
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Area Chair (Quantitative User Studies Subcommittee)
- 2022
ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC)
Associate Chair for Work in Progress Papers
Organising
- May 2023
Jean Piaget Society (Co-organiser and presenter)
Symposium on children's anthropomorphism of social robots
Madrid, Spain
- Mar 2023
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (Main Organiser) (opens in a new tab)
Child-Robot Interaction and Interdisciplinary Research
Stockholm, Sweden
- Aug 2021
IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (Co-organiser)
CRIB: Child-Robot Interaction for Beginners
Virtual
- Mar 2021
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (Main organiser) (opens in a new tab)
Interdisciplinary Research Methods for Child-Robot Relationship Formation
Virtual
Presentations
- Feb 2024
Digital Futures Young Scientist Conference
- Keep your friends close, and your robots closer: Understanding failures in human-robot interaction
Stockholm, Sweden
- Aug 2023
IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
- What's at stake? robot explanations matter for high but not low-stake scenarios
Busan, South Korea
- Aug 2022
IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
- Does what users say match what they do? Comparing self-reported attitudes and behaviours towards a social robot
- Bots of a feather: Exploring user perceptions of group cohesiveness for application in robotic swarms
Naples, Italy
- Aug 2020
IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
- "Oh no, my instructions were wrong!" An exploratory pilot towards children's trust in social robots
Virtual
Posters
- Mar 2024
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Drone Fail Me Now: How drone failures affect trust and risk-taking decisions
Honorable mention for best late-breaking report
Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Jan 2022
Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD)
The robot who could do no wrong: Comparing a social robot and a human in a selective trust task
Virtual
- Mar 2021
ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC)
Cozmonaots: Designing an autonomous learning task with social and educational robots
Virtual
Session chair
- Aug 2022
IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Session co-chair for "Innovative Robot Designs"
Naples, Italy
Research
Project involvement
- Jun 2022 – Feb 2025
S-Factor (opens in a new tab)
Facilitation Robotics for Teams
- Jun 2022 – Feb 2025
TECoSA (opens in a new tab)
Vinnova Competence Center on Trustworthy Edge Computing for Industrial Applications
- Jun 2022 – Feb 2025
PerCorSo (opens in a new tab)
Perceiving and Communicating Correct-by-design Socially Acceptable Autonomous Systems
- Nov 2021 – May 2022
PEERM (opens in a new tab)
Perceiving Expressive Movements in Robot Swarms
- Jun 2018 – Oct 2021
ANIMATAS (opens in a new tab)
Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network ANIMATAS Project (MSCA – ITN – 2017 - 765955 2)
Supervision
Student supervision & mentoring
- 2026
Jonathan Styrud (mentor)
PhD Student in Computer Science, KTH and ABB
Creating Behavior Trees for Autonomous Versatile Robots
- 2026
Emil Gunneriusson (co-supervisor)
Masters Student in Cognitive Science, Linköping University
Humans in the Group, Computers in the Loop: Creating Seamful Design for a Corporate AI Assistant
- 2024
Amandus Krantz (co-supervisor)
PhD Student in Cognitive Science, Lund University
Non-verbal social signals for trust in drones
- 2023
Maciej Wozniak (mentor)
PhD Student in Computer Science, KTH
Enhancing Robot Perception for Real-World HRI
- 2023
Lucas Morillo-Mendez (mentor)
PhD Student in Psychology, Örebro University
Social Robots / Social Cognition: Robots' Gaze Effects in Older and Younger Adults
- 2023
Noah Rahimzadagan (supervisor)
Masters Student in Computer Science, KTH
Human-Drone Interaction Failures
- 2022
Sureya Waheed Palmer (co-supervisor)
Masters Student in Psychology, University Paris 8
Multimodal Emotion Recognition from Bodily and Facial Cues in Humanoid Robot Interactions
- 2020
Rania Abdelghani (co-supervisor)
Masters Student in Computer Science, Sorbonne University
Study of robots' faulty behaviors in educational contexts
- 2019
Stéphane Sobucki (co-supervisor)
Masters Student in Computer Science, Sorbonne University
Masters internship
Development
Training & further education
- Jun 2024
RPL Summer School (opens in a new tab)
KTH, Stockholm
- Feb 2024
Young Scientist Conference (opens in a new tab)
Digital Futures, Stockholm
- Jun 2022
RPL Summer School (opens in a new tab)
KTH, Stockholm
- Nov 2020
From PhD to Innovator, Young Entrepreneurs in Science (opens in a new tab)
Falling Walls, Hamburg
- Sep 2020
Summer School on Trust in Robots (opens in a new tab)
TU Wien, Vienna
- Nov 2019
Winter School on Employability Skills and Conducting Research in Industry (opens in a new tab)
Aldebaran Robotics, Paris
- May 2019
Summer School on Virtual Agents and Computer Game Technologies (opens in a new tab)
KTH, Stockholm
- Feb 2019
Winter School on Developing Technologies in Educational Settings (opens in a new tab)
EPFL, Lausanne
- Sep 2018
Summer School on Computational Social Sciences for Social Robots and Embodied Virtual Characters (opens in a new tab)
Sorbonne University, Paris
Travel
Research Travels
Conferences, workshops, and talks.
- Workshops organised
- 4
- Presentations
- 4
- Posters
- 3
- Boulder, USA
- Madrid, Spain
- Hamburg, Germany
- Lausanne, Switzerland
- Paris, France
- Vienna, Austria
- Naples, Italy
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Busan, South Korea
- Melbourne, Australia
- Budapest, Hungary
- Lisbon, Portugal
- New York, USA
- Utrecht, Netherlands