Lola Cañamero

Reader in Adaptive Systems

School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire

Hatfield, Herts, AL10 9AB, UK

Phone: +44-(0)1707-284308. Fax: +44-(0)1707-284303.

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This page last updated: May 21, 2007

My main research interests center around the study of adaptive intelligent behavior, which I am exploring with artificial autonomous creatures. I am focusing on motivated behavior and social interactions, with particular emphasis on the role(s) that emotional phenomena play in them.

Here you can find out more about my:

Research projects and students

The EU-funded FP6 project FEELIX GROWING (FEEL, Interact, eXpress: a Global appRoach to develOpment With INterdisciplinary Grounding), which I coordinate.
The EU-funded FP6 Network of Excellence HUMAINE (Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotion), in which I lead the thematic area Emotion in Cognition and Action.

CV (long version, with lots of relevant and irrelevant details)

Papers (last updated: September 12, 2006)

Academic activities

NEWEST: Achieving Human-Like Qualities in Interactive Virtual and Physical Humanoids. Special issue of the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. Guest editors: Catherine Pelachaud and Lola Cañamero. (Vol. 7(3), September 2006 issue)

Emotion Forum page (last updated: July 10, 2003)

Alumnus of:

LEGO Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Aarhus: visiting scientist.

Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC): research scientist

VUB AI Lab: postdoctoral fellow in the group of Luc Steels.

MIT AI Lab: postdoctoral fellow in the group of Rodney Brooks.

LRI, University of Paris-XI: PhD in Computer Science under the supervision of Yves Kodratoff, Inference and Learning group.

School of Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM): Bachelors and Masters degree in Philosophy.

Member of:

ISRE, The International Society for Research on Emotion.

ISAB, The International Society for Adaptive Behavior.