Imy Khan, PhD

I am currently a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Actions EUTOPIA-SIF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, on the project “SARP-DCI: Socially Assistive Robot Partners for Digitized Cognitive Interventions.” My core research interests span 4E cognition, affective computing, social cognition, socio-affective adaptive systems, human-robot interaction, and artificial life. By using both physical and artificial systems, my research seeks to understand how and why social interactions and social relationships can play a critical role in health and long-term well-being in social individuals. I am interested in exploring the link between (affective) interactions with the social environment and its adaptive effects on physiology, how these interactions give rise to socially affective phenomena, how social affect influences motivations, decision-making, and (embodied) cognition, as well as on health and well-being outcomes in both biological and non-biological individuals. Currently, I am exploring the role of affect-based personalisation of a social robot partner in the context of cognitive training for persons with Mild Cognitive Impairments.

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I currently coordinate the ALife & Society Special Interest Research Group, as well as the Artificial Life Newsletter and ALife Community Podcast. You can find me at http://imytk.co.uk or http://twitter.com/Imy_TK.