July 2023
Paper accepted in Cog. Sys. Res.
Gaze cueing in older and younger adults is elicited by a social robot seen from the back
Hello there!
I'm Lucas Morillo-Mendez,
a researcher on the human side of technology.
News
July 2023
Paper accepted in Frontiers in Psychology
Can the robot 'see' what I see? Robot gaze drives attention depending on mental state attribution
June 2023
Paper accepted at RoMAN 23
Advantages of Multimodal versus Verbal-Only Robot-to-Human Communication with an Anthropomorphic Robotic Mock Driver
March 2023
Paper published at HRI 23
Robotic Gaze Drives Attention, Even with No Visible Eyes
January 2023
Research Secondment
I am doing a research visit at Iolanda Leite's Lab on Social Robotics at the RPL division at KTH
November 2022
Research Secondment
I am doing a research visit at Katie Seaborn's Aspire Lab at the Tokyo University of Technology
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