Research Projects and Students

Funded Research Projects

• FEELIX GROWING (FEEL, Interact, eXpress: a Global appRoach to develOpment With INterdisciplinary Grounding). Funded by the European Commission under contract FP6 IST-045169 (December 2006 - May 2010). I am the project coordinator.
• HUMAINE (Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotion). Funded by the European Commission under contract FP6 IST-507422 (January 2004 - December 2007). I am leader of the thematic area "Emotion in Cognition and Action".
• The "New AI" Laboratory: Using Robots and Simulators to Teach Artificial Intelligence. Funded by the UH Learning and Teaching Development Fund 2002/2003 (project completed December 2003).

Current Research Assistants and PhD Students

• Susan Attwood: The dynamics of affect-based relationships in social groups.
• Arnaud Blanchard: The role of affect in imitation.
• David Bowes: Developmental robot controllers based on spiking neurons (co-supervised with Dr Neil Davey and Prof. Rod Adams).
• Robert Lowe: The evolution of affective expression in artificial creatures.
• Dr Etienne Desevin: Emotional modulation of motivated autonomous systems (HUMAINE Research Fellow).
• Antoine Hiolle: The development of attachment bonds in robots (FEELIX GROWING Resear\ ch Assistant).
• Nicolas Oros: The development of neural controllers for robots (co-supervised with Prof. Rod Adams and Dr Neil Davey).
• Dr Karla Parussel: Neuromodulation and emotion (HUMAINE Research Fellow).
• Paul Pichler: An Artificial Life approach to the origins of emotions by means of natural selection.

Alumni

• Dr Orlando Avila-García: PhD Towards Emotional Modulation of Action Selection in Motivated Autonomous Robots (March 2002 - February 2005). ERASMUS student (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain), September 2001 - February 2002.
• Ivan Bethencourt Alvarez: ERASMUS student (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain), September 2002 - June 2003.
• Dr Ignasi Cos-Aguilera: PhD Ecological Adaptation in the Context of an Actor-Critic (supervised jointly with Dr Gillian Hayes; see old page at IPAB).
• Dr Richard French: HUMAINE Research Fellow, April-September 2004.
• Ludovic Létolle: MSc project (DEA Université Paris6, France), April-August 2004.
• Marcos García Padrón: ERASMUS student (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain), January-June 2002.
• Elena Hafner: ERASMUS student (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain), September 2001 - February 2002.
• Robert Marsh: HUMAINE Research Assistant, Emotion in Embodied Cogniton and Action, January 2005-August 2006.
• Oscar Martínez Valpuesta: ERASMUS student (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain), January-June 2002.
• Sarah Woods: The use of robots in education to investigate bullying behaviors (Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn was principal supervisor).

Collaborations, past and present

• FEELIX, a humanoid LEGO robot that displays different emotional expressions in response to tactile stimulation. Joint work with Jakob Fredslund
• Expressive robotic heads: collaboration with Philippe Gussier, Philippe Brun and Jacqueline Nadel.

Last modified: February 22, 2007

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