Scholar
Koen Hindriks
Google Scholar ID: BpwoE18AAAAJ
Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,869
H-index
34
i10-index
85
Publications
20
Co-authors
21
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- Full Professor in Artificial Intelligence at VU Amsterdam
- Developed companion and assistant robots for healthcare and education
- Created service robots for business applications
- Designed a generic Personal Interactive Assistant (PIA) based on a two-layered Social Interaction Architecture
- Collaborated with Prinses Maxima Centrum and Ziekenhuis Gelderse Vallei on robotic support for sick children
Background
- Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam
- Research focuses on making robots more social using psychological insights from Dual Process Theory (System 1 and System 2 by Daniel Kahneman)
- Applies and develops cognitive agent technology to engineer socially-aware machines
- Developed a Social Interaction Architecture (SIA) for social and classroom robots
- Previously worked as a project manager at Accenture
- Founded the spinoff company Interactive Robotics for social and educational robotics
