Friederike Eyssel

Friederike Eyssel

Friederike Eyssel is Professor of Psychology and head of the research group “Applied Social Psychology and Gender Research” at the Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Bielefeld University, Germany. Dr. Eyssel is passionate about basic and applied social psychological research and she is interested in various research topics ranging from social robotics, trust, and acceptance of novel techlologies to attitudes and attitude change.  These topics have been covered in various third-party funded projects, including EU projects CODEFROR and PERSEO, or projects VIVA, poliTe, and NEO-Milk. Friederike is co-author of various textbooks on social robots, among them “HRI: An introduction (2020, 2024 Cambridge University Press), “Robots in Education” (2021, Routledge), and “Theory and practice of sociosensitive and socioactive systems” (2022, Springer). Friederike Eyssel is Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, Section Editor of Robotics. For her activities in research and teaching, Friederike has received Bielefeld University’s Grotemeyer Award and Bielefeld University’s Award for Sustainable Engagement for Gender Equality in 2021, and the IEEE-RAS Distinguished Lecturer Award in 2022. 

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    Bielefeld University
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    Professor of Psychology and Head of Lab at CITEC
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