Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn
Kerstin
Dautenhahn, Ph.D. is Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the
School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information
Sciences at University of Hertfordshire, UK where she is coordinator of
the Adaptive Systems Research Group. Her main areas of research are
Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robotics, Socially Intelligent Agents,
and Artificial Life.
Kerstin is Editor in Chief of the journal
Interaction
Studies
published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, and Associate Editor of
Adaptive Behavior, Sage Publications, and Associate Editor of the
International Journal of Social Robotics, published by
Springer.
She has
pioneered research in robot social learning and imitation, and the study
of robots in autism therapy. She has published more than 200 research
articles on social robotics, robot learning, human-robot interaction,
and
assistive technology. She has edited several books and
frequently organizes international research workshops and conferences.
She is
Chair of the AISB 2009 Symposium on
New Frontiers in Human-Robot
Interaction.
She is former member of the Department of Biological Cybernetics at
University of Bielefeld, Germany, 1990–1993, and AI-Lab at GMD, Sankt
Augustin, Germany, 1993–1996, and VUB Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory, Brussels, Belgium, until end of 1996. From January 1997 to
April 2000 Lecturer, Department of Cybernetics at University of Reading,
United Kingdom. In April 2000 she joined the Department of Computer
Science (now School of Computer Science) at University of Hertfordshire
as Principal Lecturer. Later she was promoted to Reader and then
Research
Professor.
Kerstin coedited
Cognitive Technology: Instruments of Mind: 4th International
Conference,
CT 2001, Warwick, UK, August 6–9, 2001,
Imitation in Animals and Artifacts (Complex Adaptive
Systems), and
Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals:
Behavioral, Social, and Communicative Dimensions, and
edited
Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology (Advances in
Consciousness).
She
authored
Methodology and Themes of Human-Robot Interaction: A Growing Research
Field and
The Origins of Narrative – In Search for the Transactional Format of
Narratives in Humans and Other Social Animals,
and coauthored
Self-Imitation and Environmental Scaffolding for Robot
Teaching,
Behaviour Delay and Robot Expressiveness in Child-Robot Interactions:
A
User Study on Interaction Kinesics, and
The Role of Autonomy and Interaction Type on Spatial
Comfort in an HRI Scenario.
Kerstin earned her Ph.D. degree from the
Department of Biological Cybernetics at the University of Bielefeld,
Germany in 1993.
Watch
Roboter soll Kommunikation autistischer Kinder
fördern.
Listen to
Kerstin Dautenhahn – Therapy Robots for Autism.