The Ayaz Lab was pleased to host Dr. Tuğçe Nur Pekçetin, Fulbright Visiting Scholar and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the People and Robots Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for a Neuroergonomics and Neuroengineering Seminar titled “Making Sense of Social Robots: The Dynamics of Mind and Action Perception in HRI.”
In her talk, Dr. Pekçetin shared research on how people perceive robots, interpret their actions, and attribute mental states to artificial agents. She discussed cognitive mechanisms underlying human-robot interaction, including mind perception, action interpretability, multisensory influences, and trust calibration in human-robot teams. Her presentation highlighted the importance of ecologically valid methods and combining implicit and explicit measures to better understand social cognition in interactions with robots.
We thank Dr. Pekçetin for an engaging and thought-provoking seminar, and for sharing insights at the intersection of cognitive science, robotics, and human factors.
