Marco SpruitJul 10, 2025

Press Release #1!

Funded by the European Unionโ€™s Horizon Europe Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027), the UNCAN-Connect project (Decentralized Collaborative Network for Advancing Cancer Research and Innovation) addresses the HORIZON-MISS-2024-CANCER-01 Call. The โ‚ฌ30 million project will start on Sept 1, 2025, and is coordinated by the University of Tartu in Estonia. UNCAN-Connect brings together a strong multidisciplinary consortium of 53 organizationsm, including #tdslab #liacs ๐Ÿ‘

Marco SpruitJan 15, 2025

https://gamma.app/docs/Jaaroverzicht-Cairelab-2024-Bijlage-z2i9dmpv9jd4q3d?mode=doc#card-266r0qpek6kwhik

Here's a nice 2024 overview (in Dutch) of the Clinical AI work performed at the #tdslab that intersects the #HealthCampusDenHaag and #liacs departments on Population Health research from the Clinical AI Research and Implementation Lab (CAIReLab)'s perspective.

Peter van der PuttenFeb 16, 2023
Why do we bond with 'others'? Could one of the factors be simply a matter of sharing space, time and experiences? Check out our in-the-wild study with couch-surfing robots, and also learn how it relates to the 'intentional stance'. Lead researcher Joost Mollen (Leiden University, now at TU Delft), joint work with Kate Darling (MIT Media Lab). #robot #hri #thri #liacs https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3563702
Bonding with a Couchsurfing Robot: The Impact of Common Locus on Human-Robot Bonding In-the-Wild | ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction

Due to an increased presence of robots in human-inhabited environments, we observe a growing body of examples in which humans show behavior that is indicative of strong social engagement towards robots that do not possess any life-like realism in ...

ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction