Wafa Johal
University of Melbourne
University of New South Wales
Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at UNSW Sydney, Wafa obtained her PhD from the University of Grenoble (France) focusing on bodily signals in child-robot interaction and affective reasoning for social agents. Her research aims at creating acceptable and useful assistive robot interactions using social signal sensing, affective and cognitive reasoning and natural expressivity.
- Human-Computer/Robot Interaction
- Machine Learning and Reasoning
- Social Signal Processing
- Robots for Learning
The Computational Human-Robot Interaction (CHRI) research group studies the computational and social aspects of interactions between humans and robots. Our mission is to understand and investigate how humans and robots can learn together (robots learning from humans and humans learning from robots).
Research interests include: human-computer/robot interaction; AI and machine learning for human-robot interaction (HRI); robots for learning; robot assistants for cognitive tasks; robot social reasoning; nonverbal communication in HRI; and behavioural signal processing for interaction design.
Recent News
Our international team received the best demo award at @HRI2020 @dillenbo @AnaraSandy! #SNSF #CoKaz http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2020/best-paper-awards/
I am hounoured that the 27th International Conference on Computers in Education awarded me with the Best Reviewer Award.
http://ilt.nutn.edu.tw/icce2019/04_Best%20Reviewer%20Award.html