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Emilia Barakova is Assistant Professor of Socially Intelligent Systems. Emilia Barakova received her Ph.D. in Mathematics and Natural Sciences from the University of Groningen in 1999, and her master’s degree in Electronics and Automation engineering from the Technical University of Sofia in Bulgaria. She is presently affiliated with the Industrial Design department and serves as the Head of the Social Robotics Lab at the Eindhoven University of Technology. She formerly worked at Riken Brain Science Institute, Wako-shi, Japan, the German-Japanese Robotics Research Lab, Kitakyushu, Japan, the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Barakova specializes in embodied social interaction with and through technology and social and cognitive robotics. She has expertise in modeling social behavior by merging artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, and robotics. Her present research focuses on the use of social robots for education and special education (i.e. social skills training of children with autism spectrum disorders), and enhancing the well-being of people with dementia and intellectual disabilities. Barakova has served as the program and general chair for several conferences (including IJSR, IEEE RO-MAN, and IEEE Hybrid Intelligent Systems), and she is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Social Robotics, as well as an editor of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Interaction Studies, and Transactions of Human-Machine Systems. She has co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed papers.
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.
Affiliated with
- 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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Projects
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ICE Giulia Perugia
Hu, J. (Project Manager), Barakova, E. I. (Project Manager) & Rauterberg, G. W. M. (Project Manager)
1/11/16 → 31/10/17
Project: Research direct
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EMJD ICE Juarez Urizar
Hu, J. (Project Manager), Barakova, E. I. (Project Manager) & Rauterberg, G. W. M. (Project Manager)
1/03/16 → 30/04/17
Project: Research direct
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Cohort 4 EMDJ-ICE 2014
Rauterberg, G. W. M. (Project Manager), Hu, J. (Project Manager) & Barakova, E. I. (Project Manager)
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
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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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Prizes
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Best Robot Design Process Award
Li, J. L. (Recipient), Wang, P. (Recipient), Barakova, E. I. (Recipient) & Hu, J. (Recipient), 31 Aug 2023
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
Activities
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Yan Chen
Hu, J. (Host) & Barakova, E. I. (Host)
Feb 2022 → Feb 2023Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor › Scientific
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10th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2018
Barakova, E. I. (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)
Barakova, E. I. (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
Barakova, E. I. (Organiser), van Berkel, R. E. A. (Organiser), Batts, S. (Organiser), Herrera Perez, C. (Organiser) & Whatley, S. (Organiser)
4 Jun 2018 → 8 Jun 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Workshop, seminar, course or exhibition › Scientific