[Colloq] REMINDER TOMORROW: Title: "Towards an Integrated Architecture for Open-World" | Matthias Scheutz, Tufts University | 2/2/16 366WVH 10:30-11:30am

[Walker, Lashauna]

Talk Title: Towards an Integrated Architecture for Open-World
Human-Robot Interactions

Speaker: Matthias Scheutz, Tufts University
Date: 2/2/16
Time: 10:30-11:30am
Location: 366 WVH


Title: Towards an Integrated Architecture for Open-World
Human-Robot Interactions

Abstract: "Open-world" human-robot interactions differ significantly
from "closed-world" human-robot interactions in that not all task-
relevant information is available at the beginning of the interaction
in the former (while it is in the latter).  As a result, robots need to
be able to acquire new knowledge online during task execution in open-
world scenarios, which requires additional functionality in the
cognitive robotic architecture to deal with unknown entities (such as
words, objects, locations, actions, events, goals, etc.).  In this
presentation, I will provide an overview of our recent efforts towards
developing an integrated architecture for open-world HRI and
demonstrate some of the novel algorithms using videos from human-robot
interaction scenarios.

Bio: Matthias Scheutz is a Professor in Cognitive and Computer Science
in the Department of Computer Science, an Adjunct Professor in the
Department of Psychology, and the Bernard M. Gordon Senior Faculty
Fellow in Engineering at Tufts University.  He earned a Ph.D. in
Philosophy from the University of Vienna in 1995 and a Joint Ph.D. in
Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Indiana University
Bloomington in 1999.  He has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications
in artificial intelligence, artificial life, agent-based computing,
natural language processing, cognitive modeling, robotics, human-robot
interaction, and foundations of cognitive science.  As Director of the
Human-Robot Interaction Laboratory at Tufts, his current research
focuses on complex cognitive and affective robots with natural language
capabilities for natural human-robot interaction.

Lab: http://hrilab.tufts.edu/


Thank You.

LaShauna Walker
Events and Administrative Specialist
College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University
617-373-2763
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