Murat Kirtay
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Murat Kirtay (Postdoc, Tilburg University) is an external collaborator and former post-doctoral researcher at SCIoI (project 9, “Multimodal Interaction and Communication”). His research focuses on developing multimodal communication and interaction architectures for humanoid robots. He has received a Ph.D. degree in BioRobotics from the BioRobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa). His research interests are in the areas of Humanoid Robotics, Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience, and Machine Learning.
Projects
Murat Kirtay is member of Project 09.
Publications +
Kirtay, M., Hafner, V. V., Asada, M., & Oztop, E. (2023). Trust in robot-robot scaffolding. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCDS.2023.3235974
Taliaronak, V., Lange, A. L., Kirtay, M., Oztop, E., & Hafner, V. V. (2023). Advancing Humanoid Robots for Social Integration: Evaluating Trustworthiness through a Social Cognitive Framework. 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2112–2119. https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309519
Chevalère, J., Kirtay, M., Hafner, V., & Lazarides, R. (2022). Who to Observe and Imitate in Humans and Robots: The Importance of Motivational Factors. International Journal of Social Robotics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-022-00923-9
Yun, H. S., Taliaronak, V., Kirtay, M., Chevelère, J., Hübert, H., Hafner, V. V., Pinkwart, N., & Lazarides, R. (2022). Challenges in Designing Teacher Robots with Motivation Based Gestures. 17th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2022). https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03942
Yun, H. S., Hübert, H., Taliaronak, V., Mayet, R., Kirtay, M., Hafner, V. V., & Pinkwart, N. (2022). AI-based Open-Source Gesture Retargeting to a Humanoid Teaching Robot. AIED 2022: The 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-11647-6_51
Kirtay, M., Oztop, E., Kuhlen, A. K., Asada, M., & Hafner, V. V. (2022). Trustworthiness assessment in multimodal human-robot interaction based on cognitive load. 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 469–476. https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900730
Kirtay, M., Oztop, E., Kuhlen, A. K., Asada, M., & Hafner, V. V. (2022). Forming robot trust in heterogeneous agents during a multimodal interactive game. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 307–313. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDL53763.2022.9962212
Wudarczyk, O. A., Kirtay, M., Pischedda, D., Hafner, V. V., Haynes, J.-D., Kuhlen, A. K., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2021). Robots facilitate human language production. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 16737. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95645-9
Wudarczyk, O. A., Kirtay, M., Kuhlen, A. K., Abdel Rahman, R., Haynes, J.-D., Hafner, V. V., & Pischedda, D. (2021). Bringing Together Robotics, Neuroscience, and Psychology: Lessons Learned From an Interdisciplinary Project. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.630789
Pischedda, D., Lange, A., Kirtay, M., Wudarczyk, O. A., Abdel Rahman, R., Hafner, V. V., Kuhlen, A. K., & Haynes, J.-D. (2021). Who is my interlocutor? Partner-specific neural representations during communicative interactions with human or artificial task partners. 5th Virtual Social Interactions (VSI) Conference.
Pischedda, D., Lange, A., Kirtay, M., Wudarczyk, O. A., Abdel Rahman, R., Hafner, V. V., Kuhlen, A. K., & Haynes, J.-D. (2021). Am I speaking to a human, a robot, or a computer? Neural representations of task partners in communicative interactions with humans or artificial agents. Neuroscience 2021.
Kirtay, M., Oztop, E., Asada, M., & Hafner, V. V. (2021). Modeling robot trust based on emergent emotion in an interactive task. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDL49984.2021.9515645
Kirtay, M., Chevalère, J., Lazarides, R., & Hafner, V. V. (2021). Learning in Social Interaction: Perspectives from Psychology and Robotics. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDL49984.2021.9515648
Kirtay, M., Oztop, E., Asada, M., & Hafner, V. V. (2021). Trust me! I am a robot: an affective computational account of scaffolding in robot-robot interaction. 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 189–196. https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN50785.2021.9515494
Kirtay, M., Wudarczyk, O. A., Pischedda, D., Kuhlen, A. K., Abdel Rahman, R., Haynes, J.-D., & Hafner, V. V. (2020). Modeling robot co-representation: state-of-the-art, open issues, and predictive learning as a possible framework. 2020 Joint IEEE 10th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDL-EpiRob48136.2020.9278031
