David Vernon
Informatics
University of Skovde
Sweden
Biography
I am a Professor of Informatics working in the Interaction Lab in the School of Informatics. Over the past 35 years I have held positions in several information technology sectors: as a software engineer in industry, as a university professor in Ireland and the UAE, as a consultant, and as a project officer in the European Commission and Science Foundation Ireland.
Research Interest
I am the research director of a major new project, DREAM, funded by the European Commission to deliver the next generation robot-enhanced therapy (RET) for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The goal is to develop clinical interactive capacities for social robots that can operate autonomously for limited periods under the supervision of a psychotherapist.
Publications
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Reconciling Constitutive and Behavioural Autonomy: The Challenge of Modelling Development in Enactive Cognition Vernon David Intellectica, 2016, 65, 63-79.
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How to Design Emergent Models of Cognition for Application-Driven Artificial Agents Thill Serge, Vernon David Neurocomputational Models of Cognitive Development and Processing: Proceedings of the 14th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (115-129). Singapore: World Scientific, 2016.
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Desiderata for developmental cognitive architectures Vernon David, von Hofsten Claes, Fadiga Luciano Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 2016, 18, 116-127.
