Séminaire (SIREP) de prof. Maya Dimitrova de l'Académie bulgare des Sciences, Sofia mardi 12/04/2016 à 10h45 en salle C 319 - Grenoble INP

The talk will present a novel framework for including social competence in pedagogical assistant robots based on recent social neuroscience studies. An educational model describing the interplay of social interaction and social observation in typical children and children with autistic spectrum conditions (ASC) is proposed. The behavioral results of a study of human gaze movements while viewing a robot tutor are briefly presented. The implications for design of adaptive and intuitive robotic tutoring systems as pedagogical assistants for typical children and children with special educational needs are discussed.


Short CV:
Maya Dimitrova received her M.S. degree in Psychology from the University of St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1985, M.S. degree in Psychology (by research) from the University of Warwick (1995) and Ph.D. degree on Adaptive User-Computer Interface from the Institute of Control and System Research of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 2002. From 2002-2007 she was Research Fellow at ICSR-BAS and worked on human–machine systems, human-computer interaction, cognitive user interfaces, neural networks. From 2007 to 2010 she was Associate Professor at ICSR-BAS and since 2010 she is Associate Professor at the Institute of Systems Engineering and Robotics of BAS (ISER-BAS). She was Coordinator of Project “INNOVATE: Increasing the Potential for Innovations in System Engineering and Robotics”, № DPREP7FP 02/11 (2010-2011) and Project No MI-1509/2005 “Multimodal User and Sensor Interface to a Computer-aided System for Cardiological Diagnosis and Intervention” (2005-2009), funded by the National Science Fund of Bulgaria.
Maya Dimitrova is the author of over 60 journal publications and proceedings, and is a co-author of 5 books. Her research interests include humanoid robotics, rehabilitation robotics, mind, sensation and emotion. She is a member of the Eucognition network.