Vanessa Evers

Vanessa Evers is a full Professor of Social Artificial Intelligence at the school of Computer Science and Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She is also a full professor of Human Media Interaction at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

Vanessa Evers currently is Director of NTU’s Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity with the goal to lead multiple research centres and programs in the responsible and cohesive development of innovative technologies and cross-disciplinary research for the benefit of people.

Her research focuses on how people interact with autonomous systems such as robots or agents and cultural aspects of Human Computer Interaction. She is best known for her work in social robotics developing robots that can interpret human social behaviours and engage with people in an ongoing interaction in a way that fits the social context in which they are used, be that at a hospital, school, museum, public spaces, factories or office buildings.

She received a M.SC. in Information Systems from the University of Amsterdam, and a Ph. D. from the Open University, UK. During her Master studies she spent two years at the Institute of Management Information Studies of the University of New South Wales, Sydney. After her Ph.D. she has worked for the Boston Consulting Group, London and later became an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam’s Institute of Informatics. She was a visiting researcher at Stanford University and has published over 150 peer reviewed publications, many of which in high quality journals and conferences in human computer interaction and human robot interaction.

EXPERTISE

• Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Social and Cultural aspects of Human Computer Interaction

RESEARCH CATEGORY

• Arts, Design and Media, Computer Science and Engineering, Info-Communication Technology, Interactive Digital Media, Internet & Communications, Machines & Systems, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Security Studies & Policy Issues, Sociology, Systems and Engineering Management

PUBLICATIONS

V. Evers, H. Maldonado, T. Brodecki and P. Hinds, “Relational vs. group self-construal: Untangling the role of national culture in HRI,” 2008 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Amsterdam, 2008, pp. 255-262.

Cramer, H., Evers, V., Ramlal, S. et al. The effects of transparency on trust in and acceptance of a content-based art recommender. User Model User-Adap Inter 18, 455 (2008).

David Goedicke, Jamy Li, Vanessa Evers, and Wendy Ju. 2018. VR-OOM: Virtual Reality On-rOad driving siMulation. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 165, 1–11.

Bland, P.A., Souza Filho, C.R., Jull, A.J.T., Kelley, S.P., Hough, R.M., Artemieva, N.A., Pierazzo, E., Coniglio, J., Pinotti, L. Evers, V. Rio Quarto: a newly discovered tektite strewn field in a paraboloid dune region. Science 2002 May 10; 296: 1109-1111.