Current projects

Fields of work

Autonomous, self-learning, AI-assisted robotic technologies and systems in the real world
Analysis of the social and psychological dimensions of human-robot interaction and cooperation
Technology development and empirical research in human-machine interaction

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Professional background

since 2023	Scientific staff member at ITAS
2023	Ph.D., Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2018⁠ - 2022	Marie-Skłodowska-Curie PhD Fellow, EU H2020 ANIMATAS Project Scientific staff member, Computer-Human Interaction Lab in Learning and Instruction (CHILI), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2019	Guest researcher, Social Computing team, Télécom Paris, France
2018	M.Sc., Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
2016 - 2018	Scientific staff member in the Computer Engineering Department, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
2018	B.A., Philosophy, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
2016	B.Sc., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Selected publications

Norman, U.; Dinkar, T.; Bruno, B.; Clavel, C.
Studying alignment in a collaborative learning activity via automatic methods. In: Dialogue & Discourse, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 1–48, Aug. 2022.
doi: 10.5210/dad.2022.201

Norman, U.; Chin, A.; Bruno, B.; Dillenbourg, P.
Efficacy of a ‘misconceiving’ robot to improve computational thinking in a collaborative problem solving activity: a pilot study. In: 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO‐MAN), Naples, Italy, Aug. 2022, pp. 1413–1420.
doi: 10.1109/RO‐MAN53752.2022.9900775

Nasir, J.; Norman, U.; Bruno, B.; Dillenbourg, P.
When positive perception of the robot has no effect on learning. In: 2020 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO‐MAN), online, Aug. 2020, pp. 313–320.
doi: 10.1109/RO‐MAN47096.2020.9223343

Nasir, J.; Norman, U.; Johal, W.; Olsen, J.; Shahmoradi, S; Dillenbourg, P.
Robot analytics: What do human‐robot interaction traces tell us about learning? In: 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO‐MAN), New Delhi, India, Oct. 2019.
doi: 10.1109/RO‐MAN46459.2019.8956465

Publications

2024

Conference Papers

Rudenko, I.; Norman, U.; Maure, R.; Rudenko, A.; Weinberger, N.; Krebs, F.; Peller-Konrad, F.; Reister, F.; Asfour, T.; Bruno, B.
Drawings for Insight on Preschoolers’ Perception of Robots
2024. Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 920–924, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3610978.3640608

Presentations

Lefint, J.; Norman, U.; Weinberger, N.; Vetter, P.; Maia, M.
Woher wissen wir, was Sie wissen?
2024. TRIANGEL Transfer | Kultur | Raum & KIT Reallabore : Afterwork | Reallabor trifft Robotik (2024), Karlsruhe, Germany, July 2–6, 2024

Soedibjo, K.; Lefint, J.; Norman, U.; Vetter, P.; Maia, M. J.; Bruno, B.; Nierling, L.; Weinberger, N.
Different Models of Knowledge -Insights from Real-World Labs on Robotic Artificial Intelligence
2024. International Conference Knowledge Transfer in and through Living Labs (2024), Aachen, Germany, June 24–26, 2024