BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Towards Personalization and Adaptation in Socially Assistive Robot ics DTSTART:20221004T103000 DTEND:20221004T111500 DTSTAMP:20260510T164818Z UID:f92489fa999814de42800cc489a70494d2efebbc92c92fe693141913 CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Silvia Rossi\, associate professor at the Department of Electr ical Engineering and Information Technologies\, University of Naples Feder ico II.\nTalk Abstract: To make the interaction of a robot with human bein gs socially acceptable\, legible\, and adaptable\, it is of paramount impo rtance to endow a robot with the ability to model the users’ preferences \, needs\, and motivations. Creating robotic systems capable of correctly recognizing\, and consequently\, modeling human behavior and preferences i s a very critical and challenging task\, especially in the domain of assis tive and social robotics and when working with vulnerable user populations . Moreover\, the embodiment condition of a robot requires also considering the physical characteristics of the interaction\, such as the user prefer ences regarding the robot’s physical movements in the space (e.g.\, prox emics\, speed\, and trajectories). A personalized and adaptive interaction \, differently from pure reactive strategies\, strongly relies on the lear ning of such a computational model of human behavior and on the integratio n of these into the decision-making algorithms of the robot. This talk wil l provide an overview of this problem in the context of a robot interactin g with a human by focusing on how to obtain meaningful information from hu man observation and\, consequently\, how to adapt and model the robot's be havior accordingly. This analysis will be conducted by considering differe nt levels of interaction\, from the physical level to the more cognitive a nd social aspects of the interaction. The talk will present examples from current research projects in the area of socially assistive robotics\, inc luding assisting people with dementia and children in hospitals.\n\nSpeake r Bio: Silvia Rossi (http://wpage.unina.it/silrossi/) is an associate pro fessor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technol ogies\, University of Naples Federico II. She received the M.Sc. degree in Physics from the University of Naples Federico II\, Italy\, in 2001\, and the Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies from the Universi ty of Trento\, Italy\, in 2006. She is Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)\, the International Journal of Social Roboti cs\, Pattern Recognition Letters\, and for the Intelligent Service Robotic s journal. She is the general chair of RO-MAN 2020 and RO-MAN 2022\, Progr am Chair of ICSR 2020\, and she is in the program committee of several int ernational conferences on human–robot interaction and artificial intelli gence. Prof. Rossi has been involved in several EU and non-EU projects. Sh e is currently the principal investigator and coordinator of the MSCA-ITN- 2020 PERSEO (European Training Network on Personalized Robotics as Service Oriented applications)\, PI of the HORIZON- TMA-MSCA-DN project TRAIL (TR Ansparent\, InterpretabLe Robots)\, PI of the CHIST-ERA IV project COHEREN T (Collaborative HiErarchical Robotic ExplaNaTions)\, and PI of the nation al project BRILLO (Bartending Robot for Interactive Long-Lasting Operation s). Her research interests include Multi-agent Systems\, Human-Robot Inter action\, Cognitive Architectures\, Behavior-based Robotics\, and User Prof iling and Recommender Systems. She published more than 150 papers in inter national journals\, books\, and conferences.   LOCATION:RLC D1 740 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==RLC%20D1%20740 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR