Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Research interests include trust and transparency for robotics and autonomous systems through natural language interaction, human-robot interaction and various disciplines of Spoken Dialogue Systems. Specifically:
Biography
Helen Hastie is a Professor in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. She is the Director of the and has been a RAEng/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow. She specialises in Human-Robot Interaction, in particular spoken dialogue, for a number for domains including health, defence and personal assistants. She was the coordinator of EC FP7 project PARLANCE on voice-enabled search and Co-I for the EC FP7 Emote project on empathic robotic tutors. Recently, she has received funding from the UK MoD for her work on explainable autonomy. She has international experience in both academia and industry, having worked at AT&T Research Labs, NJ, USA where she obtained a number of patents, and Lockheed Martin, NJ, USA where she led the Interactive Systems group. Helen holds a PhD in Speech Recognition from the University of Edinburgh, an MS from Georgetown University and an MA from the University of Edinburgh. She has published over 80 papers and was a founding member of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland.
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Helen Hastie is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
- 3 Similar Profiles
Co Author Network
Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.
Research Output
Robots in the Danger Zone: Exploring Public Perception through Engagement
Robb, D., Ahmad, M., Tiseo, C., Aracri, S., McConnell, A. C., Page, V., Dondrup, C., Garcia, F. J. C., Nguyen, H-N., Pairet Artau, È., Ardon, P., Semwal, T., Taylor, H., Wilson, L., Lane, D. M., Hastie, H. & Lohan, K. S., 8 Jan 2020, (Accepted/In press). 10 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Open Access
File
A Digital Twin for Human-Robot Interaction
Pairet, È., Ardon, P., Liu, X., Lopes, J., Hastie, H. & Lohan, K. S., 25 Mar 2019, 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). IEEE, p. 372-372 1 p. (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open Access
File
A Survey of Explainable AI Terminology
Clinciu, M. A. & Hastie, H. F., 2019, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence. p. 8-13Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Challenges in Collaborative HRI for Remote Robot Teams
Hastie, H., Robb, D. A., Lopes, J. D., Ahmad, M., Le Bras, P., Liu, X., Petrick, R. P. A., Lohan, K. & Chantler, M. J., 2019, CHI2019 Workshop on The Challenges of Working on Social Robots that Collaborate with People (SIRCHI 2019).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open Access
File
Corpus of Multimodal Interaction for Collaborative Planning
Katsakioris, M., Laskov, A., Konstas, I. & Hastie, H., 6 Jun 2019, Proceedings of the Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) and Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP). Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 1-6 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open Access
File
Prizes
Spirit of Heriot-Watt Awards 2017, Outward Looking
David Michael Lane (Recipient), Katrin Solveig Lohan (Recipient), Patricia A. Vargas (Recipient), Helen Hastie (Recipient), Frank Broz (Recipient), Sethu Vijayakumar (Recipient), Michael Hermann (Recipient), Mary Ellen Foster (Recipient), Sabine Hauert (Recipient), Micael S. Couceiro (Recipient), Lynne Baillie (Recipient), Mustafa Suphi Erden (Recipient), Iain James McEwen (Recipient), Alistair Campbell McConnell (Recipient), Robert Goodfellow (Recipient), Mauro Dragone (Recipient), Fulvio Mastrogiovanni (Recipient), Christian Dondrup (Recipient), Mei Yii Lim (Recipient), Sarah Anne Murphy (Recipient), Marta Vallejo (Recipient), Siobhan Duncan (Recipient) & Mohd Khairul Azmi Hassan (Recipient), 1 Jul 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)