Vanessa Evers

Mythbusted!

vanessaevers — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:54:10 +0000

The University of Twente had it’s 50 year anniversary. The mythbusters received a honorary degree for bringing science to a wide international audience.

International Conference on Social Robotics

vanessaevers — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:51:04 +0000

We hosted the Conference on Social Robotics in Amsterdam from 23-25 November! Jaap Ham form Eindhoven University, takayuki Kanda from ATR and myself were general chairs, Bilge Mutlu from Wisconsin Madison, and Christoph Bartneck from Christchurch uni NZ were program Chairs. The conference was wonderful and showed excellent PhD student work from around the globe. Robotgarage presented the neatest moving robot ever.

Frog Project KICK off

vanessaevers — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:36:05 +0000

The FROG project started! We have an excellent team with Imperial College, Ydreams, Idmind, UPO Spain and University of Amsterdam. We’ll be building a Fun Robotic Outdoor Guide for Outdoor Tourism! And it’s going to use augmented reality. Could it get any better?

ACCOMPANY project Kick off

vanessaevers — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:50:21 +0000

With Rieks op den Akker, Ben Krose and Care-o-bot3 at Kerstin Dautenhahn’s robot house in Hertsfordshire. The EU FP7 project ACCOMPANY has started! At HMI, we will investigate robot roles, personalities and long-term interaction in home environments.

New foto of our Human Media Interaction Group at Twente University!

vanessaevers — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:55:21 +0000

And there it is! A foto of the entire HMI team (give or take a couple of people).

Dr. Dr. Egon van den Broek defends his second PhD thesis!

vanessaevers — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:20:21 +0000

Friday 16 September, Egon van den Broek succesfully defended his second PhD thesis. The first was in 2005 on Human Centred Content-Based Image retrieval. This thesis is titled: Affective Signal Processing, unraveling the mystery of emotions. Congratulations Egon!

My talk about human-aware robots at the Roboned meeting

vanessaevers — Sat, 07 May 2011 06:59:04 +0000

I gave a talk about socially normative behaviour for robots at the Dutch Roboned meeting, a great Dutch initiative to stimulate the synergy between the robotics fields and to formulate a focus. A short story came out of this by science journalist Jan Taco te Gussinklo (in Dutch)

http://www.dutchbuttonworks.com/2011/05/human-aware-robots/

http://www.roboned.nl/IIP-RN-kanaal/IIP_RoboNED-About-RoboNED.html

Marcel Heerink’s promotion

vanessaevers — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:50:26 +0000

3 November was a very proud day. Marcel did his thesis defence and was awarded the PhD degree of the University of Amsterdam. The title of his PhD Thesis:Assessing Acceptance of Assistive Social Robots by Aging Adults. http://www.narcis.nl/publication/id/1/Language/en/coll/person/RecordID/oai:uva.nl:356908

HRI PC meeting

vanessaevers — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:44:23 +0000

In December 2010, I hosted the Human Robot Interaction Program Committe meeting. It was awesome to have so many HRI prominents around for a few days. I had to fibb to the press to keep them away from some of the famous scientists so we could focus on the papers. It is going to be a great conference this year! http://hri2011.net/

Mor Naaman’s visit

vanessaevers — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:40:37 +0000

6 December 2010, Mor Naaman came to visit. He’s an expert in social multimedia.

http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~mor/