I am a research fellow in the Adaptive Systems Research Group at the University of
Hertfordshire where I was involved in
different projects. As part of the iTalk project I conducted research to examine mechanisms of natural
language aquisition,
and investigated human mutual gaze and turn taking behaviour in
conversations in order to help to design more natural looking
robot gaze behaviours for human-robot interaction with
Dr. Frank Broz.
I was also involved in the AURORA project and the IROMEC project conducting experiments on the effects of human-robot interaction on children with autism
and other cognitive disabilities. At the moment I am working in
the ACCOMPANY project. The goal of
this project is develop robotic home companions to help elderly
people to maintain an independent life style in their homes.
Before starting my work with robots at Science and Technology
Research Center at the University of Hertfordshire I wrote my Master
thesis in Psychology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology with Prof. Micheal Tomasello, and a PhD in Computer
Science at the University of Bath with Dr. Joanna Bryson.
My main fields of interests are the evolution of social
behavior, social cognition and culture, intelligence and
consciousness, artificial intelligence and robotics,
human-robot interaction, self-organization and cybernetics. Recently I became
increasingly interested in the works of Francesco Varela and Heinz von Foerster.
Academic Activities:
Workshops
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Co-organizer of the Face-to-Face: Gaze and Speech Communication workshop at the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Human-Robot Interaction 2013, Tokyo, Japan
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Co-organizer of the Special session on Artificial Empathy: Models, applications, social, ethical and theoretical implications at the International Conference on
Social Robotics 2012, Chengdu, China
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Co-organizer of the Gaze in HRI: From Modeling to
Communication workshop at the 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Human-Robot Interaction 2012, Boston, USA
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Co-organizer of the Social gaze: From human-human to human-robot
interaction workshop at the IEEE ICDL-EPIROB conference 2011,
Frankfurt, Germany
Program Committees
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SMLC 2013 - Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions
Summer Schools
Publications:
Journal Articles
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Wood L., Dautenhahn K., Rainer A., Robins B., Lehmann H. and Syrdal D.
(2013). Robot-Mediated Interviews - How effective is a humanoid robot
as a tool for interviewing young children?. PLoS ONE 8(3): e59448. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059448
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Damiano L., Dumouchel P. and Lehmann H. (2012). Should Empathic
Social Robots Have Interiority?. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 7621, pp. 268-277
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Lohan K., Pitsch K., Rohlfing K., Saunders J., Lehmann H.,
Nehaniv C., Fischer K., & Wrede B. (2012). Tutor spotter: Proposing a feature set and evaluating
system. International Journal of Social Robotics, 4 (2): 131 - 146
- Bryson J.J., Ando Y. & Lehmann H. (2007). Agent-based models as
scientific methodology: A case study analysing primate social
behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society: B -Biology, 362 (1485): 1685 - 1698
- Tomasello M., Hare B., Lehmann H. & Josep Call (2007). Reliance
on head versus eyes in the gaze following of great apes and human
infants: the cooperative eye hypothesis. Journal of Human Evolution, 52 (3): 314 - 320
Book Chapters
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Broz F., Lehmann H., Nehaniv C., and Dautenhahn K. (2012). Automated Analysis of
Mutual Gaze in Human Conversational Pairs. In: Nakano, Y.;
Conati, C.; and Bader, T. eds. Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human
Computer Interaction. Springer
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Bryson J.J., Ando Y. and Lehmann H. (2011). Agent-based models as
scientific methodology: a case study analyzing the DomWorld theory
of primate social structure and female dominance. In: Seth, A.;
Prescott, T.; and Bryson, J.J. eds. Modelling Natural Action
Selection. Cambridge University Press
Proceedings
2013
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Nehaniv C., Foerster F., Saunders J., Broz F.,
Antonova E., Kose H., Lyon C., Lehmann H., Sato Y.
and Dautenhahn K. (2013) Interaction and Experience in Enactive
Intelligence and Humanoid Robotics, 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on
Computational Intelligence, Singapore
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Lehmann H., Syrdal D., Dautenhahn K., Gelderblom G.J., Bedaf S. and
Amirabdollahian F. (2013) What can a robot do for you? - Evaluating
the needs of the elderly in the UK, 6th International Conference on
Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, Nice, France
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Costa S., Lehmann H., Robins B., Dautenhahn K., and Soares F. (2013)
Where is your nose? - Developing body awareness skills among
Children with Autism using a humanoid robot, 6th International Conference on
Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, Nice, France
2012
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Dondrup C., Lohan K., Saunders J., Lehmann H., Nehaniv C., and Wrede
B. (2012) Keyword Detection in Human-Robot Tutoring Scenarios, IEEE-RAS
International Conference on Humanoid Robots 2012 Osaka, Japan
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Saunders J., Lehmann H., Foerster F., and Nehaniv C.L. (2012) Robot
Acquisition of Lexical Meaning - Moving Towards the Two-word Stage,
Proceedings of ICDL-EpiRob 2013 San Diego, USA
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Nehaniv C.L., Saunders J., Foerster F., Lyon C., Broz F., Lehmann
H., and Sato Y. (2012) Enactive aquisition of linguistic behaviours
by a child-like humanoid robot interfacing with naive participants. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob) San Diego, USA
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Broz F., Lehmann H., Nehaniv C.L., & Dautenhahn K. (2012). Mutual
Gaze, Personality, and Familiarity: Dual Eye-tracking During
Conversation. Proceedings of RO-MAN 2012
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Robins B., Dautenhahn K., & Lehmann H. (2012) Tactile interaction and
imitation games in human-robot interaction studies with children
with autism. Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE International
Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2012), March 5th, 2012,
Boston, USA.
2011
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Lehmann H., Iacono I., Robins B., Marti P., & Dautenhahn K. (2011).
Make it move: Playing Cause and Effect Games With A Robot Companion
for Children With Cognitive Disabilities. Proceedings of ECCE 2011, 105-112
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Broz F., Lehmann H., Nehaniv C.L. & Dautenhahn K. (2011). Automated
Analysis of Mutual Gaze in Human Conversational Pairs. Proceedings
of 2nd Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction
at the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)
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Lohan K., Pietsch K., Rohlfing K., Fischer K., Saunders J., Lehmann
H., Nehaniv C., & Wrede B. (2011). Contingency allows the robot to
spot the tutor and to learn from interaction. Proceedings of
ICDL-EpiRob 2011: IEEE Conference on Development and Learning, and
Epigenetic Robotics
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Iacono I., Lehmann H., Marti P., Robins B., & Dautenhahn K. (2011).
Robots as Social Mediators for Children with Autism - A Preliminary
Analysis Comparing Two Different Robotic Platforms. Proceedings of
ICDL-EpiRob 2011, 2, 1-6
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Saunders J., Lehmann H., Sato Y., & Nehaniv C. (2011). Towards Using
Prosody to Scaffold Lexical Meaning in Robots. Proceedings of ICDL-
EpiRob 2011: IEEE Conference on Development and Learning, and
Epigenetic Robotics
before 2011
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Lehmann, H. and Bryson, JJ. (2007). Modeling Primate Social Order:
Ultimate Causation of Social Evolution. In: Amblard, F.,
ed. Proceedings of the 4th Conference of the European Social
Simulation Association (ESSA 2007), 10-14 September 2007, Toulouse,
France. IRIT Publications, p. 765
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Lehmann H., Wang J. & Bryson J. (2005). Tolerance and Sexual Attraction in Despotic Societies: A Replication and Analysis of Hemelrijk 2002. Proceedings of Modeling Natural Action Selection
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Selected Presentations at International conferences and Workshops
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Synthetic models of natural behavior - Workshop on:
The Synthetic Modelling of Life and Cognition: Epistemological, Social and Ethical
Issues, October 6th, 2012, Ritsumeikan
University, Kyoto, Japan
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Tactile interaction and imitation games in human-robot interaction
studies with children with autism - Workshop on: Advances in
Tactile Sensing and Touch based Human-Robot Interaction, 7th
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction,
March 5th, 2012, Boston, USA
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Mutual gaze, personality, and familiarity: dual eye-tracking during
conversation - Workshop on: Gaze in HRI: From Modeling to
Communication, 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-
Robot Interaction, March 5th, 2012, Boston, USA
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Towards Human-Robot Mutual Gaze - Special Session on: Social Gaze:
From Human-Human to Human-Robot Interaction, IEEE International
Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics,
August 24th, 2011, Frankfurt, Germany
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Robots as Social Mediators for Children with Autism - A Preliminary
Analysis Comparing Two Different Robotic Platforms - IEEE
Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics,
August 25th, 2011, Frankfurt, Germany
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A unified account of the primate tolerance spectrum - 3rd
International Congress of the European Federation for Primatology,
August 12th, 2009, Zurich, Switzerland
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Testing the socio-ecological model - 2nd International Congress of
the European Federation for Primatology 2007, September 4th, Prague,
Czech Republic
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Modelling intuition and intentionality from a neuropsychological
perspective, International Conference on Computers and Philosophy
2006, Laval, France
Conference Abstracts
- Lehmann H. & Bryson J.J. (2009). A Unified Account of the Primate Tolerance Spectrum . Folia Primatologica, 80 (2): 124
- Schmidt T. & Lehmann H. (2008). A
neuro-physiological model of the evolution of goal-oriented behavior
based on the development of agency. International Journal of Psychology, 43 (3-4): 474
- Lehmann H. & Bryson J.J. (2008). Ultimate causes of
egalitarianism: Factors influencing social order in Macaques and other
primates. International Journal of Psychology, 43 (3-4): 778
- Lehmann H. & Bryson J.J. (2008). Explaining
the despotic/egalitarian continuum. Folia Primatologica, 79 (5): 350
Research Visits
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October 2012 - Asada Laboratory \ Osaka Univerity, Japan
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October 2012 - Primate Research Institute, Inuyama \ Kyoto University, Japan
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September 2012 - Ishiguro Laboratories \ ATR and Osaka University, Japan
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May 2012 - Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems \ Plymouth
University, UK
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June - August 2006 - Centre de Primatologie \ Université de
Strasbourg, FRA
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August 2005 - Max Planck Institute for evolutionary Anthropology
Leipzig, GER
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Oct - Nov 2004 - University of Otago - Dunedin, NZ
Invited Talks
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Social Robotics - From Grounding Experiments to Applications -
University of Salzburg 2012, Salzburg, Austria
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Understanding Social Interaction - From Humans to Robots - Kyoto
University 2012, Kyoto, Japan
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Social Robotics - From Grounding Experiments to Applications
- Osaka University 2012, Osaka, Japan
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Eye Gaze: From developmental Psychology to Human-Robot Interaction (and back?) - iCub Summer School 2012, Sestri Levante, Italy
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Examples for the application of agent-based modelling in behavioural ecology - University of Bath 2009, Bath, UK
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Agenten basierte Modelle in den Sozialwissenschaften - University of Applied Arts Vienna 2008, Vienna, Austria
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Possible reasons for the differentiation of social behaviour in Macaques - University of Vienna 2008, Vienna, Austria
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Environmental Pressures Influencing Social Order in Macaques
- Charles University Prague 2007, Prague, Czech Republic
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Social dominance and social organization in Macaques - University of Bath 2007, Bath, UK
Posters
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Mutual Gaze - Implications for Human-Robot Interaction (ICDL-EPIROB
Frankfurt 2011)
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Robots as Social Mediators for Children with Autism (ICDL-EPIROB
Frankfurt 2011)
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Tolerance and Sexual Attraction in Despotic Societies (euCognition
Nice 2006)
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How to build a brain - The social aspect in evolution (AISB -
Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems Bristol 2006)
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Machine Consciousness - Is intentionality a precondition for
self-awareness? (International Conference on Philosophy and
Computers Laval 2006)
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Gaze Following in Great Apes And Human Children (Animal Social
Learning St. Andrews 2005)
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