Nicole Mirnig is a PhD Research Fellow at the Center for Human-Computer Interaction. She holds a Master’s Degree (2011) in Communication Studies from the University of Salzburg, Austria. She was engaged in the EU-project IURO (Interactive Urban Robot), focusing on improving human-robot interaction by the means of adequate feedback strategies. In 2013/2014, she spent nine months as a visiting researcher at the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore, deepening her research in robot feedback. Nicole’s research focus lies in communication strategies for human-robot cooperation, taking into account different feedback modalities. Amongst others, she investigates how the internal state of a machine can be communicated to users.

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