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Emilia Barakova is Assistant Professor of Socially Intelligent Systems. She is the head of the Social Robotics Lab, leader of the Physical and Social Rehabilitation educational squad, and an editor of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Associate Editor of International Journal of Social Robotics and Journal of Integrative Neuroscience. Barakova is an expert in the field of embodied social interaction with and through technology, social, cognitive and brain-inspired robotics, modeling expressiveness of movement and designing technologies for individuals in social isolation and special needs groups. She has specialized in combining methods from neuro- and cognitive sciences, robotics, and computational intelligence to model social behavior. Several of her research projects focus on children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), elderly with dementia, and embodying emotions and intelligence in robots.
Barakova has organized three international conferences (1 ACM, 2 IEEE), has co-edited 7 special issues in journals with an average impact factor of 2.595, has been invited as Keynote speaker at many international conferences. She has served as an intermediate director of German-Japanese Research Lab in Japan.
Academic background
After obtaining a Master diploma from Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, Emilia Barakova worked as a researcher at the Bulgarian Academy of Science before going on to do her PhD research into artificial intelligence at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Since then, she has held several research positions at GMD-Japan Research lan and RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan. She returned to the Netherlands in 2006, taking up a position at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), as Assistant Professor. She has made her interest in social robots into a cornerstone of her research at TU/e.
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- RIKEN BSI
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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ICE Giulia Perugia
Hu, J., Barakova, E. I. & Rauterberg, G. W. M.
1/11/16 → 31/10/17
Project: Research direct
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EMJD ICE Juarez Urizar
Hu, J., Barakova, E. I. & Rauterberg, G. W. M.
1/03/16 → 30/04/17
Project: Research direct
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Cohort 4 EMDJ-ICE 2014
Rauterberg, G. W. M., Hu, J. & Barakova, E. I.
22/09/14 → 31/12/16
Project: Research direct
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Promoting question-asking in school-aged children with autism spectrum disorders : effectiveness of a robot intervention compared to a human-trainer intervention
Huskens, B., Verschuur, R., Gillesen, J. C. C., Didden, R. & Barakova, E. I., 2013, In: Developmental Neurorehabilitation. 16, 5, p. 345-356 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Expressing and interpreting emotional movements in social games with robots
Barakova, E. I. & Lourens, T., 2010, In: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 14, 5, p. 457-467 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Communicating emotions and mental states to robots in a real time parallel framework using Laban movement analysis
Lourens, T., Berkel, van, R. E. A. & Barakova, E. I., 2010, In: Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 58, 12, p. 1256-1265Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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From training to robot behavior : towards custom scenarios for robotics in training programs for ASD
Gillesen, J. C. C., Barakova, E. I., Huskens, B. & Feijs, L. M. G., 2011, Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), June 29 - July 1, 2011, Zurich, Switzerland. Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 1-7Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Social training of autistic children with interactive intelligent agents
Barakova, E. I., Feijs, L. M. G. & Gillesen, J. C. C., 2009, In: Journal of Integrative Neuroscience. 8, 1, p. 23-34Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
42 Citations (Scopus)3 Downloads (Pure)
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Self-initiations in young children with autism during Pivotal Response Treatment with and without robot assistance
de Korte, M. W. P. (Contributor), van den Berk-Smeekens, I. (Contributor), van Dongen-Boomsma, M. (Contributor), Oosterling, I. J. (Creator), Den Boer, J. C. (Contributor), Barakova, E. I. (Creator), Lourens, T. (Creator), Buitelaar, J. K. (Creator), Glennon, J. C. (Creator) & Staal, W. G. (Creator), SAGE Journals, 31 Jul 2020
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10th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2018
E.I. Barakova (Organiser)
28 Nov 2018 → 30 Nov 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Conference › Scientific
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27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2018 (Event)
E.I. Barakova (Chair)
27 Aug 2018 → 31 Aug 2018Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee › Scientific
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Interdisciplinary Workshop on Movement Grammars: Brains, Robots and Dance
E.I. Barakova (Organiser), R.E.A. van Berkel (Organiser), Steven Batts (Organiser), Carlos Herrera Perez (Organiser) & Sarah Whatley (Organiser)
4 Jun 2018 → 8 Jun 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Workshop, seminar, course or exhibition › Scientific