Erik Billing
Associate Professor of Informatics
School of Informatics
Room PA520C
I am a researcher at the Interaction Lab here at the University of Skövde. My primary research focus lies on cognitive modelling for human-robot interaction, which I approach with a strong stance in embodied and situated views on cognition.
I’m currently engaged in three research projects. I'm leading the OKAVIM project funded by AFA, where we investigate the role of memory retreval (testing effect) in virtual learning environments. I am also engaged as sub-project leader of the research synergy Virtual Ergonomics, funded by the Swedish Knowledge Foundation (KK), and as a WP-leader of the research project EWASS, funded by Vinneova. In all projects, we are investigating various aspects of human behavior and cognition in virtual environments, with specific emphasis on eye-gaze as predictor for human action. We are working in both collaborative settings with robots and in virtual (VR/AR) environments.
Former projects:
- Action and Intention Recognition in Human Interaction with Autonomous Systems (AIR), KK, 2014-2019
- Development of Robot-Enhanced Therapy for Children with Autism (DREAM), EU/FP7, 2014-2019
- DesTex, VGR, 2016-2018
- Neural Dynamics, EU/STREP, 2012-2015
I also have a big heart for robot learning from demonstration and wrote my PhD thesis on the topic, titled Cognition Rehearsed – Recognition and Reproduction of Demonstrated Behavior, presented January 2012. The thesis presents novel techniques for learning from human demonstration, inspired by several cognitive and neurocomputational models of learning.
Please also refer to my profiles at Google scholar, Mendeley, and Research Gate.
Research
Publications
Projects
2023
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
2023. Article.
https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2023.1098982
2022
2022. Editor (conference proceedings).
Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021): Volume V: Methods & Approaches
2022. Conference paper. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74614-8_44
Frontiers in Virtual Reality
2022. Article.
https://doi.org/10.3389/frvir.2022.864653
Proceedings of the 7th International Digital Human Modeling Symposium (DHM 2022), August 29–30, 2022, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
2022. Conference paper.
https://doi.org/10.17077/dhm.31772
Cognitive Systems Research
2022. Article.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2022.09.005
Human-Computer Interaction: Technological Innovation: Thematic Area, HCI 2022 Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022 Virtual Event, June 26 – July 1, 2022 Proceedings, Part II
2022. Conference paper. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05409-9_43
Proceedings of the Society 5.0 Conference 2022 - Integrating Digital World and Real World to Resolve Challenges in Business and Society
2022. Conference paper.
https://doi.org/10.29007/m2jx
Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction - SCRITA Workshop: IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication 29 August 2022, Naples (Italy)
2022. Conference paper.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2208.14637
2021
2021. Editor (conference proceedings).