UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM presents "Motor Interference and Motor Coordination in Human-Humanoid Interaction" Qiming Shen (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire) 30 January 2013 (Wednesday) 11 am -12 noon Hatfield, College Lane Campus * * Seminar Room B200 * * Everyone is Welcome to Attend Refreshments will be available Abstract: One motivation of Human-Robot Interaction research is to investigate possible approaches to integrate robots into human daily life naturally. This talk briefly introduces how motor interference and motor coordination can be used to facilitate human-humanoid interaction. Motor coordination, which has been found to be a phenomenon that can benefit the establishment of social rapport in human social interaction, can also be applied to induce a similar effect in human-humanoid interaction. An approach uses the information distance synchrony detection method to realize the motor coordination behaviour on a humanoid robot is demonstrated in this talk. Motor interference, which has been suggested to reflect a human's subconscious reaction to an observed agent, can be used to evaluate the quality of Human-Robot Interaction. In this talk, I will briefly discuss what critical factor enables an artificial visual stimulus to elicit motor interference based on my previous experiments. --------------------------------------------------- Hertfordshire Computer Science Research Colloquium http://cs-colloq.stca.herts.ac.uk