Steering Committee

Co-chairs

  • Elizabeth Broadbent, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2024-2027
  • Laura Hiatt, Naval Research Laboratory, USA, 2024-2027

Members (in alphabetical order)

  • Alessandra Sciutti, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
  • Bradley Hayes, CU Boulder, USA
  • Daniel Grollman, Plus One Robotics, USA
  • Daniel Rea, University of New Brunswick, Canada
  • David Sirkin, Stanford University, USA
  • Drazen Brscic, Kyoto University, Japan
  • Ginevra Castellano, Uppsala University, Sweden
  • Harold Soh, Singapore National University, Singapore
  • Iolanda Leite, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • James E. Young, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • Laurel Riek, UC San Diego, USA
  • Maartje de Graaf, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  • Marynel Vazquez, Yale University, USA
  • Maya Cakmak, University of Washington, USA
  • Sarah Sebo, University of Chicago, USA
  • Severin Lemalgman, PAL Robotics, Spain
  • Thomas Williams, Colorado School of Mines, USA
  • Vicky Charisi, European Commission, JRC, Centre for Advanced Studies
  • Wafa Johal, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Wendy Ju, Cornell Tech., USA

Managing Director

  • Stela H. Seo, Kyoto University, Japan

 

Past Chairs (in reverse chronological order)

  • James E. Young, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • Ana Paiva, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Michita Imai, Keio University, Japan
  • Bilge Mutlu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  • Gerhard Sagerer, Bielefeld University, Germany
  • Jeonghye Han, Cheongju National University of Education, South Korea
  • Holly Yanco, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
  • Vanessa Evers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
  • Takayuki Kanda, Kyoto University / ATR, Japan
  • Julie A. Adams, Oregon State University, USA
  • Micheal A. Goodrich, Brigham Young University, USA
  • Alan C. Schultz, Naval Research Laboratory, USA

Past Members (in alphabetical order)

  • Aaron Steinfeld, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Adriana Tapus, ENSTA-ParisTech, France
  • Alan C. Schultz, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
  • Ana Paiva, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Andrea Thomaz, University of Texas Austin, USA
  • Angelika Peer, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • Astrid Weiss, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  • Aude Billard, EPFL, Switzerland
  • Ben Kröse, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Bilge Mutlu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  • Bill Smart, Oregon State University, USA
  • Brian Scassellatti, Yale University, USA
  • Christoph Bartneck, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
  • Cindy Bethel, Mississippi State University, USA
  • Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  • Daisuke Sakamoto, Hokkaido University, Japan
  • Daniel Szafir, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
  • David Feil-Seifer, University of Nevada, USA
  • David Woods, Ohio State University, USA
  • Dong-Soo Kwon, KAIST, South Korea
  • Francois Michaud, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
  • Franz Kummert, Bielefeld University, Germany
  • Fumihide Tanaka, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  • Gerhard Sagerer, University of Bielefeld, Germany
  • Greg Trafton, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
  • Guy Hoffman, Cornell University, USA
  • Hatice Gunes, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Henny Admoni, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Hideaki Kazuoka, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  • Hiroshi Ishiguro, Osaka University, Japan
  • Hirotaka Osawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  • James E. Young, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • Janet Wiles, University of Queensland, Australia
  • Jeonghye Han, Cheongju National University of Education, South Korea
  • Jodi Forlizzi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Jongsuk Choi, KIST, South Korea
  • Julie A. Adams, Oregon State University, USA
  • Jung Kim, KAIST, South Korea
  • Kate Tsui, Toyota Research Institute, USA
  • Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, UK
  • Kerstin Fischer, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
  • Kerstin Severinson-Eklundh, KTH, Sweden
  • Leila Takayama, UC Santa Cruz, USA
  • Malte Jung, Cornell University, USA
  • Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg, Austria
  • Masahiro Shiomi, ATR, Japan
  • Matthew Johnson, IHMC, USA
  • Matthias Scheutz, Tufts University, USA
  • Michael A. Goodrich, Brigham Young University, USA
  • Michelle Johnson, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Michita Imai, Keio University, Japan
  • Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, University of Michigan, USA
  • Pamela J. Hinds, Stanford University, USA
  • Paul Baxter, Lincoln University, UK
  • Peter Kahn, University of Washington, USA
  • Robin Murphy, Texas A&M, USA
  • Sara Kiesler, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Selma Sabanovic, Indiana University, USA
  • Sonia Chernova, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  • Sonya Kwak, KIST, South Korea
  • Sylvain Calinon, EPFL, Switzerland
  • Takayuki Kanda, Kyoto University / ATR, Japan
  • Terry Fong, NASA, USA
  • Tony Belpaeme, Ghent University / University of Plymouth, Belgium / UK
  • Yiannis Demiris, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Yukie Nagai, Osaka University, Japan

 

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