Dip. Soz. Claudia Muhl

Claudia Muhl received her Diploma of Sociology from Bielefeld University, Germany. Her research interests are in the domains of science and technology studies, and in the social dimensions of human-machine interaction.

She joined the Applied Computer Science Group in March 2005. Recently she is preparing her PhD-thesis concerning social factors in human-robot interaction, which is promoted by a scholarship of Bielefeld University and the Sozialwerk Bielefelder Freimaurer.

Mainly her work focusses on human strategies in in interacting with technological and cognitive interfaces that facilitate communication. Recently she is involved in cross-disciplinary research concerning the social robotics. Therefore she investigates human-robot communication under the condition of its situatedness and the appearance of unanticipated incidents. The objectives of this work are concerning the improvement of communicating agents equipped with attention mechanisms by implementing methods of pattern recognition.