About me
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 have been 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
How to find my office ...
- Enter the Sir Alwyn Williams Building
- Go to the main stairwell and climb up to the floor marked "F" (Lilybank Gardens)
- Walk along the hallway all the way to the end (past the teaching office) -- you will see rooms numbered F101 and F102
- Go down the stairs to your right to the first landing -- that's M101 (my office)
Updates
- 17 November 2016: Joint paper with Ron Petrick presented at AI-HRI 2016 in Arlington, Virginia.
- 3 November 2016: The first paper from the MuMMER project has been presented at ICSR 2016 in Kansas City.
- 1 October 2016: The Glasgow Social Robotics group participated in Explorathon 2016 at the Glasgow Science Centre.
- 27 August 2016: I presented a paper on MuMMER at the PubRob 2016 workshop at RO-MAN 2016 in New York.
- 15 August 2016: I spoke at the Edinburgh Digital Entertainment Festival on the topic of Artificial Intelligence: Can Machines Have Emotions? -- you can view the live stream at https://youtu.be/2vo6colZDXI?t=4h2m5s.
- June 2016: I presented the MuMMER project at Automatica 2016 in Munich as part of the euRobotics stand.
- 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!