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Dissemination on CoBot Studio.

According to the interdisciplinary approach of the project, the content, progress and results of the project were disseminated through a wide variety of channels in very different forms and to widely varying target groups.

Gross S., Krenn B. (forthcoming): The Role of Multimodal Data for Modeling Communication in Artificial Social Agents. In Handbook of Human-Machine Systems. IEEE Press/Wiley.

Busch C., Reiterer B., Krenn B., Mara M. (in progress): Shaping trust in industrial human-robot interactions. Journal-Paper in ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction

Leichtmann B., Meneweger T., Christine Busch, Meyer K., Rammer D., Haring R., Reiterer B., Mara M. (2024): Teaming with a Robot in Mixed Reality: Dynamics of Trust, Self-Efficacy, and Mental Models Affected by Information Richness. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2331878, opens an external URL in a new window

Gross S., Krenn B. (2023): A communicative perspective on human-robot collaboration in industry. Mapping communicative modes on collaborative scenarios. International Journal of Social Robotics, Special Issue on "Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human Robot Interaction" https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-023-00991-5, opens an external URL in a new window 

Mara M. (2020): Why your Robot Co-worker Needs a Psychologist: Interdisciplinary Research for trustworthy Machines, in European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, in ERCIM News, Nummer 122, Seite(n) 10-11. https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en122/r-s/why-your-robot-co-worker-needs-a-psychologist-interdisciplinary-research-for-trustworthy-machine, opens an external URL in a new window

Mara M. (2019): Roboter müssen verständlich und vorhersehbar werden, in e&i, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, 136, 294–295. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00502-019-00768-7, opens an external URL in a new window

Winklbauer A., Mara M., Meyer K., Haring R., Heiml M., Layer-Wagner T. et al. (submitted): Lernen in der virtuellen Realität: Erklärt Verhalten räumliche Präsenz? Poster AOWI 2023 (Fachgruppentagung der AOW- und Ingenieurspsychologie)

Winklbauer A., Mara M., Meyer K., Haring R., Heiml M., Layer-Wagner T. et al. (2023): Presence and Learning in VR: What can Human Behavior Tell? Poster EAWOP (European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology) Congress

Reiterer B., Brandstötter M., Mara M., Rammer D., Haring R., Heiml M., Meyer K., Hoffmann T., Weyrer M., Hofbaur M. (2023): An Immersive Game Projection Setup for Studies on Collaboration with a Real Robot. Austrian Robotics Workshop. 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370299869_Proceedings_Austrian_Robotics_Workshop_ARW_2023, opens an external URL in a new window (S. 86-93)

Mara M., Meyer K., Heiml M., Pichler H., Haring R., Krenn B., Gross S., Reiterer B., Layer-Wagner T. (2021): CoBot Studio VR: A Virtual Reality Game Environment for Transdisciplinary Research on Interpretability and Trust in Human-Robot Collaboration, in The HRI International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality for Human-Robot Interaction VAM-HRI. https://www.researchgate.net, opens an external URL in a new window

Krenn B., Reinboth T., Gross S., Busch C., Mara M., Meyer K., ... & Layer-Wagner T. (2021). It’s your turn! - A collaborative human-robot pick-and-place scenario in a virtual industrial setting, in the HRI Workshop Exploring Applications for Autonomous Nonverbal Human-Robot Interaction.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2105.13838, opens an external URL in a new window

Krenn B., Gross S., Dieber B., Pichler H., & Meyer K. (2021). A proxemics game between festival visitors and an industrial robot, in the HRI Workshop Exploring Applications for Autonomous Nonverbal Human-Robot Interaction.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2105.13812, opens an external URL in a new window

Reinboth T., Gross S., Bishop L. and Krenn B. (2020): Linguistic, Kinematic and Gaze Information in Task Descriptions. The LKG-Corpus. Proceedings of LREC 2020, pp. 147-155. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2020/pdf/2020.lrec-1.19.pdf, opens an external URL in a new window

Gross S., Krenn B. (2020): The role of corpora for robots' acquisition of linguistic structure through observation and natural language instructions. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems. DOI:10.1109/ICHMS49158.2020.9209342

Mara M. (06.9.2021): Un-Magic the Machine! On the Need for AI Literacy and Understandable Robots. Eingeladener Eröffnungsvortrag, Mensch und Computer 2021 (ACM MuC’21), TH Ingolstadt, Deutschland. https://muc2021.mensch-und-computer.de/de/programm/keynotes, opens an external URL in a new window

Gross S. (17.6.2021): Modelling Multimodal Communication in Social Robots. Keynote at Fifteenth Middle European Interdisciplinary Conference in Cognitive Science (MEi:CogSci Conference), Vienna, 17-19 June, 2021 https://www.ofai.at/news/2021-06-17meicogsi, opens an external URL in a new window

Leichtmann B., Mara M. (23.9.2021): Quo vadis, human-robot interaction? Current research questions, future directions and challenges in the field. Tagung der DGPs-Fachgruppen Arbeits-, Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie sowie Ingenieurspsychologie https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/aow2021/programm.html, opens an external URL in a new window

Mara M. (2021): Why your Robotic Co-Worker Needs a Psychologist: Interdisciplinary Research for Trustworthy Cobots. Tagung der DGPs-Fachgruppen Arbeits-, Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie sowie Ingenieurspsychologie, Chemnitz.

Meyer K. (13.4.2021): Trustworthy Robotics Workshop: Using virtual reality games to explore trust in collaborative robots. European Robotics Forum ERF2021, April 2021

Krenn B., Gross S. (21.10.2020): workshop (IVA Salon) hosted on „Collaborative Robots as Communicative Agents“ at the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 20.-22. October 2020, online.

Mara M. (26.01.2023). Making machines understandable: Research examples on calibrating human trust in AI and collaborative robots. Gastvorlesung im Rahmen des „Colloquium Cognitive Systems“, Universität Ulm, Deutschland

Gross S.: Vortrag in OFAI Lecture Series (2.11.2022) https://www.ofai.at/events/2022-11-02gross, opens an external URL in a new window

Reiterer B. (12.10.2022): CoBot Studio: Immersive Studienplattform zu Mensch-Roboter-Kollaboration in virtuellen Szenarien. Systemintegratorentagung 2022, Klagenfurt, https://sit.joanneum.at/programm, opens an external URL in a new window

Mara M. (11.10.2022): Forschungsbeispiele aus dem Robopsychology Lab der JKU. Gastvorlesung im Rahmen der „ID Design Talks“, Kunstuniversität Linz, Österreich.

Science Café on Digital Extended Reality, opens an external URL in a new window, Makerspace HAPPYLAB, Wien (30.9.2022)

Ars Electronica Festival 2022: CoBot Studio – Research Insights into Human Robot Collaboration. Live Demo im Deep Space https://ars.electronica.art/planetb/de/cobot-studio, opens an external URL in a new window

Präsentation beim ASAI IJCAI Satellite Event 2022, Wien (07/2022) https://www.science-center-net.at/type-projekte/techethos, opens an external URL in a new window

Krenn B.: Vortrag in OFAI Lecture Series (13.7.2022) https://www.ofai.at/events/2022-07-13krenn, opens an external URL in a new window

Krenn B.: Gastvortrag beim “DIGITAL FUTURE TALK: Artificial intelligence (AI)” am Österreichischen Kulturforum in Warschau, Polen (9.12.2021, online) https://www.ofai.at/news/2021-12-09dft, opens an external URL in a new window

Krenn B. (25.9.2021): Roboter als soziale Wesen - Konstrukt und Wirklichkeit. Vortrag zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung nothing more human than humanoid, opens an external URL in a new window, steirischer herbst 2021. https://esc.mur.at/de/termin/steirischer-herbst-ausstellungser%C3%B6ffnung-am-2592021-ab-1200-uhr-mit-vortrag-und-performance, opens an external URL in a new window

Mara M. (14.9.2021): Hallo, Kollege Roboter! Psychologische Faktoren der Mensch-Maschine-Kollaboration, Gastvortrag, Open Innovation Day der Wirtschaftskammer OÖ, Linz, Österreich

Ars Electronica Festival 2021: CoBot Studio Präsentation im Deep Space https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/de/cobot-studio/, opens an external URL in a new window

Mara M. (25.3.2021): Vom Verstehen und Vertrauen: Psychologische Faktoren der Mensch-Roboter-Kollaboration. Eingeladene Keynote, Universal Robots CoBot Exference 2021, online.

Mara M. (10.3.2021). Why your robot co-worker needs a psychologist (and many other disciplines). Vortrag im Rahmen der „LIT Lectures Series“, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Österreich.

Mara M. (22.1.2020). Androids, Alexas, Autonomous Cars: Exploring Human Experience of Smart Machines. Gastvorlesung im Rahmen der Vorlesungsreihe „Psychology in the Digital Age“, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Deutschland.

Mara M. (26.11.2020). Smarter Mensch trifft smarte Maschine. Gastvortrag im Rahmen der Tagung „Jugendliche im digitalen Zeitalter“, Arbeiterkammer Oberösterreich, online.

Mara M. (22.7.2020). Vom Verstehen und Vertrauen: Wie das Teamwork zwischen Mensch und Maschine klappt. Gastvortrag im Rahmen der „Ars Electronica Science Talks“, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Österreich.

Ars Electronica Festival 2020: Robots Talking To Me. Ausstellungsbereich in Kepler's Gardens https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/de/robots-talking-to-me/, opens an external URL in a new window

Mara M. (06.6.2019). Why we don't trust androids — and other insights from Robopsychology. Gastvorlesung, TU Wien, Österreich

Lab Visits @OFAI:
Middle European interdisciplinary master’s programme in Cognitive Science Mei:CogSci, https://www.meicogsci.eu/, opens an external URL in a new window (01/2023)

Studio Hani Rashid, Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien (12/2022)

The Architecture and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AR2IL) of the University of Michigan's Taubman College for Architecture and Urban Planning (10/2022)

Wirtschaftsnachrichten Süd, Gespräch mit Horst Pichler: Intuitive Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation https://www.wirtschafts-nachrichten.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/WNS_1219.pdf, opens an external URL in a new window (12/2019)

Die Presse, Interview mit Martina Mara: Auf gute Zusammenarbeit mit Robotern der Zukunft. https://www.diepresse.com/5688680/martina-mara-auf-gute-zusammenarbeit-mit-robotern-der-zukunft, opens an external URL in a new window (09/2019)

Salzburger Nachrichten & Süddeutsche Zeitung Salzburg Special, Gespräch mit Robert Praxmarer: Wie sich Roboter und Menschen verstehen. https://www.sn.at/salzburg/wirtschaft/wie-sich-roboter-und-menschen-verstehen-75657244, opens an external URL in a new window (08/2019)

Brutkasten-News zur FFG-Förderung für Polycular https://www.derbrutkasten.com/polycular-ffg-foerderung, opens an external URL in a new window (05/2019)

Interview mit Martina Mara “Wir brauchen eine menschzentrierte Robotik“ https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/aktuelles-presse/aktuelles/wir-brauchen-eine-menschenzentrierte-robotik, opens an external URL in a new window (04/2019)