Speaker Matthias Rehm

Matthias Rehm
Professor wsr, Aalborg University

matthias@create.aau.dk

Matthias Rehm is Professor for Human Machine Interaction at the Dept. of Architecture, Design, and Media Technology and the director of the cross-departmental Human Robot Interaction lab at the Technical Faculty of IT and Design at Aalborg University. He received his Diploma and Doctoral degrees (with honors) in 1998 and 2001 respectively from Bielefeld University in Germany. In 2008, he successfully completed his habilitation process in Computer Science at the University of Augsburg in Germany. His research is focused on modeling social, affective and cultural aspects of everyday behavior for intuitive human machine interactions. He has over 120 peer reviewed publications in the area of robotics and human machine interaction.
Speaker for following sessions
- Thursday 24 March 2022
  13:30 - 14:30 Application of Human-Robot Interaction in the Robot Industry: How Industry Professionals Could Benefit from HRI Research
  HOST: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK AND ODENSE ROBOTICS.
  The Conference is in English.
  Moderator: Jacob Haugaard Christiansen, Journalist, Faculty of Engineering, University of Southern Denmark
  The objective of this track is to initiate collaboration between industry professionals needing better human-robot interaction and researchers in this field. SDU is launching the Danish Human-Robot Interaction Network for this purpose. Join us and find out how we can help you improve your products when they interact with people on any level.
  13.30 - 13.35: Welcome & Introduction
  Søren Adamsen Mouritzen, Project Manager, Odense Robotics
  Oskar Palinko, Associate Professor, SDU Robotics, the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark
  
  13.35 - 13.45: Proxemics in Human-Robot Interaction
  Leon Bodenhagen, Associate Professor, SDU Robotics, the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark
  Today robots are introduced into an increasing variety of scenarios where they operate in shared environments such as hospitals or other publicly accessible areas. To operate successfully in such domains, it is decisive to not only function correctly but also to ‘fit in’ a space populated by and designed for humans. Understanding how humans make use of space, e.g., for interacting with others, allows for robot behaviors adhering to social norms and thus avoiding unintended interference. This presentation will dive into key aspects of proxemics and how they can be utilized to achieve appropriate robot behaviour.
  
  13.45 - 13.55: Human-Robot Interaction at Aalborg University
  Matthias Rehm, Professor wsr, Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University
  In 2019, an interdisciplinary HRI lab has been established at the AAU that brings together expertise from such diverse disciplines as computer science, communication and psychology, electrical engineering, interaction design, AI and multimodal signal processing with the aim to create synergies from the different perspectives on human robot interaction including both technical but also societal aspects of robotics. To this end we have defined a research strategy "From Reactive to Proactive Robots" that will focus on different challenges if robots are envisioned to work side by side with humans in dynamic environments both in production contexts but also in societal context like health care, education, or commerce. This will require robots to become socially accepted, to become able to analyze human intentions in meaningful ways, and to become proactive. The presentation will give some examples of the projects currently running in the lab.
  
  13.55 - 14.05: Persuasion and Trust
  Kerstin Fischer, Prosessor wsr, Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark
  Matouš Jelínek, PhD student, Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark
  In this presentation, we provide an overview of the crucial role trust plays in both industrial and social human-robot interactions, and provide examples from our own work on regulating trust in interactions with robots. Furthermore, we present applications for robots as persuasive technologies and show that robots can be very effective for inducing behavior change.
  
  14.05 - 14.15: Non-verbal Interaction with Robots
  Oskar Palinko, Associate Professor, SDU Robotics, the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark
  Non-verbal communication cues are very important for interaction between people. We look at the other person's gaze, gestures, appearance, tone of speech, etc. They can be used also on robots to effectively communicate their intentions to people in their vicinity. For example, mobile robots can use light signals to communicate their intention to turn and beeping for moving in reverse. Movement gestures also contain a lot of information which people can easily interpret: a quick movement left and right can signify inability to complete a requested task. Robots can also detect and interpret people's non-verbal signals, like body pose, eye gaze and intonation of voice. These signals can all be used either to replace or supplement verbal information and thus, provide better communication between people and robots. This in turn can lead to better acceptance of robots and better robotic products. Examples will be shown for using these cues in actual robots, for example a robotic hand sanitizer or a logistic robot for hospitals.
  
  14.15 - 14.30 Panel Discussion
  
  14.30: End of Conference Session