Katrin Solveig Lohan
Assistant Professor
Computer Sciences
Heriot-Watt University
United Kingdom
Biography
Katrin Lohan joined the school of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University as an assistant Professor in 2013. She is deputy director of the Robotics Lab. She became SICSA team leader in the Cyber Physical Systems research theme in 2016. She was General Chair for the European Robotics Forum 2017. She is hired under the Global Platform Recruitment for Research Leaders and part of the Edinburgh Centre for robotics. Previously, she was working at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) as a Post Doc in the RobotDoc project funded by the Marie Curie Fellowship. She obtained her Ph.D. in Engineering from Bielefeld University, Germany in 2012, where she was associated with the ITALK project.
Research Interest
Her main research interests are in understanding the learning mechanisms between parents and infants, between adults and adults, and between humans and robots in order to create a natural interaction with a robot. Furthermore, she is interested in deep learning of semantic objects, both through vision and speech
Publications
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Understanding the difference in pupil dilation between children with and without ASD during a joint attention memory task Sheppard, E., Lohan, K. S., Little , G., Bonnar, L., Kelly, S. & Rajendran, G. 6 Mar 2017
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Gaze contingent joint attention with an avatar in children with and without ASD Little , G., Bonnar, L., Kelly, S., Lohan, K. S. & Rajendran, G. 9 Feb 2017 2016 Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob). IEEE, p. 15-20 6 p. (IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning)
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Enriching the human-robot interaction loop with natural, semantic and symbolic gestures Lohan, K. S., Lehmann, H., Broz, F., Dondrup, C. & Kose, H. 28 Jul 2017 Humanoids handbook. Springer
