Hello there!
I'm Lucas Morillo-Mendez,
a researcher on the human side of technology.
News
July 2023
Paper accepted in Frontiers in Psychology
June 2023
Paper accepted at RoMAN 23
March 2023
Paper published at HRI 23
January 2023
Research Secondment
November 2022
Research Secondment
About Me
I am a PhD student at the Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS) at Örebro University as part of the Newbreed-Successful ageing interdisciplinary doctoral program, co-funded by the European Commission through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA COFUND). Before that, I obtained a BSc in Cognitive Psychology from Complutense University of Madrid in 2013 and completed a MSc in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience from Goldsmiths College (University of London) in 2014.
I am driven by curiosity about the human mind. I have experience in Clinical Neuropsychology and in the field of UX research for the automotive industry (Automotive Technology Centre of Galicia). As a natural consequence of having been surrounded by engineers and stunning new technologies for so long, my academic interests are currently orbiting the interdisciplinary field of Human-Robot Interaction. My research project focuses on the impact of human perception in the design of interactions with intelligent systems for older adults.
Publications
Journals
Can the robot 'see' what I see? Robot gaze drives attention depending on mental state attribution
Lucas Morillo-Mendez, Rebecca Stower, Alex Sleat, Tim Schreiter, Iolanda Leite, Oscar Martinez Mozos and Martien G.S. Schrooten
Frontiers in Psychology (2023)
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Gaze cueing in older and younger adults is elicited by a social robot seen from the back
Lucas Morillo-Mendez, Oscar Martinez Mozos and Martien G.S. Schrooten
Cognitive Systems Research (2023)
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Age-Related Differences in the Perception of Robotic Referential Gaze in Human-Robot Interaction
Lucas Morillo-Mendez, Martien G.S. Schrooten and Oscar Martinez Mozos
International Journal of Social Robotics (2022)
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Conference Proceedings
Advantages of Multimodal versus Verbal-Only Robot-to-Human Communication with an Anthropomorphic Robotic Mock Driver
Tim Schreiter, Lucas Morillo-Mendez, Ravi T. Chadalavada, Andrey Rudenko, Erik Alexander Billing, Martin Magnusson, Kai O. Arras and Achim J. Lilienthal
In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 23), Busan (S. Korea)
Robotic Gaze Drives Attention, Even with No Visible Eyes
Lucas Morillo-Mendez, Felix T. Hallström, Oscar Martinez Mozos and Martien G.S. Schrooten
In companion proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 23), Stockholm (Sweden)
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Age-Related Differences in the Perception of Eye-Gaze from a Social Robot
Lucas Morillo-Mendez, Martien G.S. Schrooten, Amy Loutfi and Oscar Martinez Mozos
In International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 21), Singapore
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Book Chapters
Implications of ageing for the design of cognitive interaction systems
Lucas Morillo-Mendez, edited by Eleonor Kristoffersson and Thomas Strandberg
Ageing in a changing society: Interdisciplinary popular science contributions from the Newbreed research school
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Workshop Proceedings
The Effect of Anthropomorphism on Trust in an Industrial Human-Robot Interaction
Tim Schreiter*, Lucas Morillo-Mendez*, Ravi T. Chadalavada, Andrey Rudenko, Erik Alexander Billing and Achim J. Lilienthal
[* equal contribution]
In SCRITA Workshop Proceedings, at the IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 22), Naples (Italy)
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The Magni Human Motion Dataset: Accurate, Complex, Multi-Modal, Natural, Semantically-Rich and Contextualized
Tim Schreiter, Tiago Rodrigues de Almeida, Yufei Zhu, Eduardo Gutierrez Maestro, Lucas Morillo-Mendez, Andrey Rudenko, Tomasz P. Kucner, Oscar Martinez Mozos, Martin Magnusson, Luigi Palmieri, Kai O. Arras, and Achim J. Lilienthal
In SIRRW Workshop, at the IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 22), Naples (Italy)
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Towards Human-Based Models of Behaviour in Social Robots: Exploring Age-Related Differences in the Processing of Gaze Cues in Human-Robot Interaction
Lucas Morillo-Mendez and Oscar Martinez Mozos
In the 9th Starting Artificial Intelligence Researchers Symposium (STAIRS) at the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 20), Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
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Extended Abstracts
Age-Related Individual Differences and their Implications for the Design of Cognitive Interactive Systems
Lucas Morillo-Mendez
In the 1st Doctoral Consortium at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 20), Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
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Invited talks
Beyond usability testing: a call for cognitive-based research for a better design of robots for older adults
Lucas Morillo-Mendez
MIRAI2.0 Research & Innovation Week (MIRAI 22), Fukuoka (Japan)
Ageing, cognition, and robots: perspectives on interdisciplinarity
Lucas Morillo-Mendez
Succesful & Healthy Ageing Conference (2022), Örebro (Sweden)
Contact
My office is located at the Teknikhuset building in Örebro University (Fakultetsgatan 1, 702 81, Örebro), in Sweden. However, I am currently based in Stockholm and do not go to Örebro everyday.
Reach me at:
lucas.morillo [at] oru [dot] se lmorillolm [at] gmail [dot] com