Research in the Cognition & Interaction Lab (COIN) is focused on embodied, situated, and distributed cognition in natural and artificial cognitive systems - in particular:
- sensorimotor interaction between cognitive agents (humans, animals, robots) and their environments,
- social interaction between people, between robots, and not least between humans and robots, and
- human interaction with different types of information technology, e.g. decision support systems or computer games.
In terms of methodologies used, most of our projects currently are in bio-inspired cognitive robotics and computational modeling, but we are also doing cognitive ethnography and behavioral experiments with humans.
Projects
Current European cognitive systems/robotics projects we are involved in:
- ICEA
, an FP6 integrated project on biologically inspired robotics and brain-based cognitive architectures, coordinated by our lab, running January 2006 - December 2009
- ROSSI, an FP7 STREP project on sensorimotor and social interaction (human-humanoid) and concept/language grounding, running March 2008 - February 2011
- EUCogII, an FP7 network project on cognitive systems, running February 2009 - January 2012
- ROBOT-DOC, a new Marie Curie Initial Training Network on developmental cognitive/humanoid robotics, September 2009 - September 2013
Other current externally funded projects:
People
The COIN lab currently consists of the following people.
Full professor(s)
Assistant professors
Postdocs
Research engineers
PhD students