Speakers/Moderators

All speakers/moderators in alphabetical order with short bio:

Rachid ALAMI

LAAS-CNRS - Toulouse, France

Dr. Rachid Alami is Senior Scientist at CNRS. He received an engineer diploma in computer science in 1978 from ENSEEIHT, a Ph.D in Robotics in 1983 from Institut National Polytechnique and an Habilitation HDR in 1996 from Paul Sabatier University He contributed and took important responsibilities in several national, European and international research and/or collaborative projects (EUREKA: FAMOS , AMR and I-ARES projects, ESPRIT: MARTHA, PROMotion, ECLA, IST: COMETS, IST FP6 projects COGNIRON, URUS, PHRIENDS, and FP7 projects CHRIS, SAPHARI, ARCAS, SPENCER, H2020 MUMMER project, France: ARA, VAP-RISP for planetary rovers, PROMIP , ANR projects). His main research contributions fall in the fields of Robot Decisional and Control Architectures, Task and motion planning, multi-robot cooperation, and human-robot interaction. Rachid Alami is currently the head of the Robotics and InteractionS group at LAAS.

Kathleen BELHASSEIN

CLLE LTC and LAAS-CNRS - Toulouse, France

Kathleen Belhassein graduated from University of Poitiers in Psychological Sciences. She works as a PhD student with CLLE LTC and LAAS-CNRS laboratories (Toulouse, France) on the ANR project JointAction4HRI. Her current research interests include human-robot interaction, motor cognition and joint action in a developmental perspective.

Stephen BUTTERFILL

University of Warwick - Coventry, United-Kingdom

Stephen Butterfill is a Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He has a DPhil and BPhil in Philosophy and a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy, all from the University of Oxford. He works on philosophical issues in cognitive and developmental psychology, and most of his current research is on joint action and mindreading.

Aurélie CLODIC

LAAS-CNRS - Toulouse, France

Aurélie Clodic is a Research Engineer at LAAS-CNRS. She received a PhD in robotics in 2007 for which she elaborated and implemented ingredients for human-robot joint activity in several contexts (robot guide in a museum, robotic assistant in the framework of the COGNIRON project). Her research interest includes human-robot collaborative task achievement as well as robotics architecture design (focused on decision-making and supervision) dedicated to HRI.

Hélène COCHET

CLLE LTC (CNRS - University Toulouse Jean Jaurès) - Toulouse, France

Hélène Cochet is a lecturer in Developmental Psychology (University Toulouse Jean Jaurès, CLLE LTC - CNRS). She has been investigating the development and the evolution of human communication, by focusing on non-verbal behavior in young children and nonhuman primates. More specifically, she has been studying the development of gestural communication through the distinction between the functions and the morphological features of pointing gestures (e.g., hand shape, posture, gaze direction, hand preferences).

Peter DOMINEY

Robot Cognition Laboratory, INSERM - Lyon, France

Peter Ford Dominey is a CNRS Research Director at the INSERM SBRI in Lyon France. He studied cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence for the BA at Cornell University, and computational neuroscience for the M.Sc. and Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Southern California. He was a software engineer at the Data General Corporation and a Systems Engineer at NASA/JPL/CalTech. His research interests include understanding and simulating the neurophysiology of cognitive sequence processing, action and language, and their application to robot cognition and language processing, and human-robot cooperation. Over the last decade , he has developed models of grammatical construction processing and shared cooperative plans in the context of human-robot cooperation. He is currently particularly interested in the narrative construction of meaning.

Víctor FERNANDEZ

Jean Nicod Institute (ENS, EHESS, CNRS) - Paris, France

Víctor Fernández is a Postdoc Researcher at Institut Jean Nicod. Previously, he has been Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Granada, where he also obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy with the thesis “Talking the Way to Other Minds: Assessment, Conversation and Folk Psychology”. He works on different issues of Philosophy of Psychology, including inner speech, metacognition or the impact of language on human development. However, his central research chiefly focus on different aspects of social cognition –especially mindreading, mindshaping, normative-mediated social interactions and joint action.

Michèle GUIDETTI

CLLE LTC (CNRS - University Toulouse Jean Jaurès) - Toulouse, France

Michèle Guidetti is a Professor in Developmental Psychology since 2002 (University Toulouse Jean Jaurès). She received her PhD in psychology from Paris Nanterre University in 1987. She has been studying for many years emotional and communicative development in typically developing children, as well as in children with developmental disorders in a comparative perspective, including autism spectrum disorder.

Guenther KNOBLICH

Central European University - Budapest, Hungary

Guenther Knoblich received his PhD in Cognitive Science from Hamburg University in 1997. After a one-year stay at the University of Illinois at Chicago , he became a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Wolfgang Prinz’s group in Munich. From 2004 to 2007 he was Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Rutgers University (US). Between 2007 and 2011 he held Chairs for Social Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology at the Psychology Department of Birmingham University (UK) and the Donders Centre for Cognition at Radboud University Nijmegen (NL). His diverse research interests include social perception, joint action, motor control, experience of agency, and problem-solving.

Elisabeth PACHERIE

Jean Nicod Institute (ENS, EHESS, CNRS) - Paris, France

Elisabeth Pacherie is a senior researcher in philosophy, leader of the Agency team at Institut Jean Nicod ( ENS, EHESS, CNRS, Paris). Her main interests are in the philosophy of mind and action. Her research mostly focuses on the relationship between intentions and action, on the cognitive underpinnings of individual and collective action and the sense of agency.