【KAIWA】Lecture by an external expert held at the Wako office
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September 13, 2024
We are pleased to report that an in-house lecture meeting (KAIWA) was held at our Wako office for the purpose of gaining diverse perspectives and knowledge in new fields from researchers and outside experts.
Speaker Profile
Prof. Torre is an Assistant Professor in Human-Robot Interaction at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, after obtaining her PhD from the University of Plymouth, UK, in 2017.
Prof. Torre's research centers around improving communication between humans and robots. This includes both verbal (e.g. designing appropriate voices for robots) and nonverbal communication (e.g. investigating how sounds or other nonverbal signals can intuitively communicate information in cases where the robot cannot, or should not, use language).
Topic: “Voices from the future: creating appropriate verbal and nonverbal communication methods for Human-Robot Interaction”
In this lecture, Prof. Torre shared us the results of her extensive research on communication in “verbal” and “non-verbal” human-robot interactions, using specific experimental results as examples.