Agnieszka Wykowska

Biography

My research focuses on examining social cognition in human-human and human-robot interactions. I use the methods of social cognitive neuroscience to examine specific mechanisms of the human brain activated in social interactions and allowing social attunement. The aim of my research is to apply findings obtained with such methods to the area of assisitve and social robotics (e.g., robot-assisted living, training for individuals with autism, elderly- and child care), in order to tune the design of robots to the needs of the human cognitive system. In addition, my research focuses on more fundamental issues: intentional action, sense of agency and attribution of intentional agency to others, visual attention, action-related biases on perception. Social cognitive neuroscience: fundamental mechanisms of social perception/cognition; intentionality; social attention; joint action; attribution of agency Social robotics and human-robot interaction (HRI): fundamental mechanisms of social cognition in HRI; adopting the intentional stance; joint attention and joint action in HRI; cooperation; incorporating robots into human social sphere, designing robot behaviour to allow for social attunement. Action-induced influences on perceptual selection: the intentional weighting mechanism; how intentions to act bias attention and perception

Research Interest

Engineering Psychology, Social cognitive neuroscience