- April 2016: Invited Talk “To Err is Human(-Like): The Art of Making Mistakes Without LosingPeople’s Trust” at University of Plymouth, UK
- November 2015: Short Talk “My World of Research” as part of the HRI 2016 Program Committee’s Public Symposium at Stanford University, CA, USA
- October 2015: Invited Talk “Violating Social Norms: Effects of 'Faulty' Robot Behaviors on Perceptions of Anthropomorphism and Human-Robot Trust” at Workshop on "Social Norms in Robotics and HRI" at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2015), Hamburg, Germany
- July 2015: Talk “A Friendly Gesture: Effects of Multimodal Communication in Human-Robot Interaction” at the German University in Cairo, Egypt
- June 2015: Guest Lecture “Nobody’s Perfect: Why We Could Love a Faulty Robot But Shouldn’t Trust it With Our Lives” at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- March 2015: Invited Talk “The Goofy Effect: Why We Could Love A Flawed Robot But Not Trust It With Our Lives” at Disney Research Pittsburgh, USA
- February 2015: Invited Talk “The Many Faces of Social Robotics Research: Using Robots as a Tool to Understand and Model Human Skills and Behaviours” at Loughborough University, UK
- March 2013: Distinguished Alumni Presentation “PhD Revisited: 10 Lessons Learnt with the Benefit of Hindsight” at the 2014 HRI Pioneers Workshop, Bielefeld, Germany
- July 2013: Tutorial at the Summer School: Bilingual Minds, Bilingual Machines, Plymouth, UK
- April 2013: Keynote Talk “Robotics Research as a Tool to Understand and Model Human Skills and Behaviors” at the European Conference on Educational Robotics 2013, Vienna, Austria
- October 2010: Invited Talk “Conceptual Motorics” at University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
- September 2010: Invited Talk “Conceptual Motorics – Towards Meaningful Robot Gesture Based on a Virtual Agent Framework” at the Honda Research Institute European Graduate Network Symposium, Offenbach, Germany
Academic Services - Organization:
- Co-Organizer of the 5th International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction at AISB 2016 Convention, 5 & 6 April 2016, Sheffield, UK
- Co-Organizer of the 4th International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction at AISB 2015 Convention, 20 & 21 April 2015, Canterbury, Kent, UK
- Co-Organizer of the 3rd International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction at AISB 2014 Convention, 3 & 4 April 2014, Goldsmith University, London, UK
- Co-Organizer of the Workshop on Speech and Gesture Production in Virtually and Physically Embodied Conversational Agents at the 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2012. 26 October 2012, Santa Monica, California, USA
Academic Services - Program Committee Member:
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) 2016, 2017 & 2018
- ACM/IEEE HRI 2016 & 2017 Pioneers Workshop
- International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) 2017
- WONDER 2015: First International Workshop on Educational Robots at ICSR 2015
- IEEE RO-MAN 2015 Workshop on Cultural Robotics: Robots as Participants and Creators of Culture
- AAAI 2015 Symposium on Turn-Taking and Coordination in Human-Machine Interaction
- International Conference of Social Robotics (ICSR) 2013, 2014 & 2015
- ACM/IEEE HRI 2014 Workshop on Humans and Robots in Asymmetric Interactions
- International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2011
Academic Services - Reviewer for Journals & Conferences:
- IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (THMS)
- International Journal of Social Robotics (SORO)
- ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS)
- International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS)
- International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (ARS)
- International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (IJHR)
- Journal: Interaction Studies – Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems
- Journal: Robotics and Autonomous Systems
- Journal of Nonverbal Behavior (JONB)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) 2014 & 2015
- International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2015
- International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) 2015
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2013
- International Conference of Social Robotics (ICSR) 2013, 2014 & 2015
- IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) 2010 & 2015
Awards, Accomplishments & Scholarships:
- October 2015: Accepted into 2-year networking & scholarship program "Fast Track: Excellence and Leadership Skills for Outstanding Women in Science”, sponsored by Robert Bosch Foundation, Germany - 20 out of 178 applicants selected based on professional qualifications, reference & motivation letter and on-site interview
- January 2015: Nominated for Best Paper Award at 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2015 (~25% acceptance rate) - 9 out of 169 paper submissions nominated
- March 2012: 1st Prize Poster Session Award at the Interdisciplinary College 2012, Germany (winner out of over ~50 poster entrants)
- March 2010: 1st Prize Poster Session Award at the Interdisciplinary College 2010, Germany (winner out of over ~50 poster entrants)
- November 2009: Science Fair Prize (= 1,000 EUR) awarded for PhD Work in the category ‘Intelligent Systems’, Bielefeld University, Germany - 1 of 5 winners (one in each prize category) out of over ~60 entrants
- May 2007: Graduation Award from Bielefeld University for highest GPA (Distinction) among all Master graduates of Interdisciplinary Media Studies, Summer Term 2007
- 2001-2015: Various scholarships, fellowships and travel grants awarded by Siemens AG, Honda Research Institute Europe, Bertelsmann AG, Bielefeld University, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service - Germany), National Science Foundation (NSF - USA), and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC - UK), amounting to a total value of over 200,000 Euros
Media Coverage:
- April 2015: Reference in article “Robots brought in to teach at university” in Business Weekly
- Fall 2014: Dialogue response in IEEE CIS Newsletter on Autonomous Mental Development (Vol. 11, No. 2)
- September 2013: Reference in article “Working with robots: Our friends electric” in The Economist
- July 2012: Campus Bielefeld Campaign
- November 2008: ARD 'W wie Wissen' - "Bewegungsfreudiger Roboter aus Japan"
- October 2008: NRW-Invest Campaign "We love the New"
- May 2008: WDR Lokalzeit - "Asimos neues Zuhause"
Society Memberships:
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
- The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)
- European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics (EUCog)
- German Society for Cognitive Science (GK)