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Agnieszka Wykowska

Principal Investigator

Senior Researcher Tenured - Principal Investigator
Social cognition in human-robot interaction

Phone

+39 010 2897 242

Address

Prof. Agnieszka Wykowska, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Enrico Melen 83, 16152 Genova, Italy, Phone: +39 010 8172242

Research center

CHT@Erzelli

About

Professor Agnieszka Wykowska leads the unit “Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction” at the Italian Institute of Technology (Genoa, Italy), and is an adjunct professor of engineering psychology at the Luleå University of Technology as well as visiting professor at the University of Manchester. She graduated in neuro-cognitive psychology (2006, LMU Munich), obtained PhD in psychology (2008) and the German “Habilitation” (2013) from LMU Munich. In 2016 she was awarded the ERC Starting grant “InStance: Intentional Stance for Social Attunement”. She is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Social Robotics and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology. She is a board member and president-elect of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), member of ELLIS (European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems) and core member of Association of ERC Grantees. In her research, she combines cognitive neuroscience methods with human-robot interaction in order to understand the human brain mechanisms in interaction with natural and artificial agents. Email address: agnieszka.wykowska@iit.it Website of the ERC project: https://www.instanceproject.eu

Education

Title: Habilitation in Psychology
Institute: Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU)
Location: Munich
Country: Germany
From: 2008 To: 2013

Title: PhD in Psychology
Institute: Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU)
Location: Munich
Country: Germany
From: 2006 To: 2008

Title: M.Sc. in Neuro-Cognitive Psychology
Institute: Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU)
Location: Munich
Country: Germany
From: 2004 To: 2006

Experience External

Title: Full Professor, Chair of Engineering Psychology
Institute: Lulea University of Technology (LTU)
Location: Lulea
Country: Sweden
From: 2016 To: 2016

Title: Privatdozent and team leader
Institute: Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU)
Location: Munich
Country: Germany
From: 2016 To: 2016

Title: Senior Researcher and Project Leader
Institute: Technical University Munich (TUM)
Location: Munich
Country: Germany
From: 2013 To: 2016

All Publications

All Publications

2022

Marchesi S., De Tommaso D., Perez-Osorio J., Wykowska A.

Belief in sharing the same phenomenological experience increases the likelihood of adopting the intentional stance towards a humanoid robot.

Technology, Mind and Behavior

Article in Press Journal

2022

Ciardo F., De Tommaso D., Wykowska A.

Joint action with artificial agents: Human-likeness in behaviour and morphology affects sensorimotor signaling and social inclusion

Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 132

DOI 10.1016/j.chb.2022.107237

Article Journal

2022

Willemse C., Abubshait A., Wykowska A.

Motor behaviour mimics the gaze response in establishing joint attention, but is moderated by individual differences in adopting the intentional stance towards a robot avatar

Visual Cognition, vol. 30, (no. 1-2), pp. 42-53

DOI 10.1080/13506285.2021.1994494

Article Journal

Unknown Repository

2022

Kompatsiari K., Ciardo F., Wykowska A.

To follow or not to follow your gaze: The interplay between strategic control and the eye contact effect on gaze-induced attention orienting

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 151, (no. 1), pp. 121-136

DOI 10.1037/xge0001074

Article Journal

Unknown Repository

2022