UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
             COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

                            presents


      "Robotics at Life's Edges: Adaptive Robotic Assistants 
                 for Children and the Elderly"

                    Dr. Yiannis Demiris
      (Personal Robotics Laboratory, Department of Electrical 
      and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK)


                     7 November 2012  (Wednesday)
                            1 -2  pm


                  Hatfield, College Lane Campus
                      * * Room C152  * *

                  Everyone is Welcome to Attend

                  Refreshments will be available


Abstract:

Robots are increasingly establishing their credibility as useful
assistants outside traditional industrial environments, with new
challenges emerging for intelligent robotics research. To personalise the
interaction with human users, robots need to develop life-long user models
that can be used to recognise human actions, predict human intentions and
assist intelligently, while constantly adapting to changing human
profiles. In this talk, I will draw inspiration from biological systems
and describe our latest advances in embodied social cognition mechanisms
for humanoid robots, and describe their application towards adaptive
robotic assistants for children and adults with disabilities.


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