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Vidya Somashekarappa is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gothenburg. Her research interests include gaze interaction and its impact on user perception in social robotics. She has contributed to various conferences and workshops, including the IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics Social Impacts and the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Her work focuses on mutual gaze detection, human-robot interaction, and the application of probabilistic approaches in linguistic theory. She has been involved in multiple publications related to gaze patterns and social referential gaze in dialogue systems, highlighting the importance of eye gaze in communication. Somashekarappa's expertise also extends to computational linguistics, exploring meaning representations and the intersection of language and neural computation. Her significant contributions have advanced understanding in the field of gaze interaction and its implications for cognitive science and robotics.
Administered by the Department of Political Science; focus on International Administration and Global Governance (IAGG).