About me
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I am a Lecturer in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. My primary research interests are human-robot interaction, social robotics, and embodied conversational agents. I am a member of the Glasgow Social Robotics group and the Glasgow Interactive Systems Group (GIST), and an Associate Academic of the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology.
From March 2016, I will be coordinating the MuMMER project, a European Horizon 2020 project where we will develop a socially intelligent humanoid robot that is able to operate in a public shopping mall. Here's a short video of me describing the project (video recorded by RoboHub).
Selected publications
Contact me
Dr Mary Ellen Foster
Room M101,
18 Lilybank Gardens
+44 (0)141 330 4742
MaryEllen.Foster@
My official University of Glasgow page
Updates
- 4 April 2016: Watch me describe MuMMER in two minutes at the European Robotics Forum (video by RoboHub).
- 8 March 2016: Here's a Glasgow Campus e-News story about MuMMER.
- 1 March 2016: The MuMMER project has started!
- 15 February 2016: Paper accepted at UK PlanSIG 2015/2016
- 29 January 2016: Our IEEE RO-MAN workshop on human-robot interaction in public spaces has been accepted!
- 25 January 2016: Full paper accepted at AAMAS 2016 in Singapore (on some work I helped out with a bit on the EMOTE project)
- 17 December 2015: Read my article about socially intelligent robots (and Star Wars) in The Conversation.
- 20 November 2015: Position paper accepted for presentation at IWSDS 2016 in Saariselkä, Finland. Lapland in January, should be interesting ...
- 27 October 2015: The EMYS robot head has arrived!