Academic Activities

Editorial Activities

• Associate Editor, International Journal of Social Robotics, 2010-now
• Associate Editor, Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013, ICRA 2012)
• Associate Editor, Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2013, IROS 2012, IROS 2011)
• Guest Co-Editor, Int. Journal of Social Robotics,
  Special issue on People Detection and Tracking, vol. 2, nr. 1, March 2010
• Guest Co-Editor, Robotics and Autonomous Systems,
  Selected papers from the 2007 European Conference on Mobile Robots, vol. 85, nr. 2, 2010
• Guest Co-Editor, Robotics and Autonomous Systems,
  Special issue with the best papers of Eurobot'01, vol. 44, no. 1, 2003

Program Committees

• Int. Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER 2012)
• Int. Conf. on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2012)
• Int. Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2014, HRI 2013, HRI 2012)
• Int. Conf. on Human-Agent Interaction (iHAI 2013)
• Int. Conf. Social Robotics (ICSR 2012, ICSR 2011)
• Robotics Science and Systems (RSS 2012, RSS 2011, RSS 2010, RSS 2007)
• AAAI Student Abstract and Poster Program (AAAI 2013, AAAI 2012, AAAI 2011)
• European Conf. Artificial Intelligence, STAIRS track (ECAI 2012)
• Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2013)
• Int. Conf. Computer Vision (ICCV 2011)
• European Conf. on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2013, ECMR 2011, ECMR 2009, ECMR 2007, ECMR 2005, ECMR 2003)
• Portuguese Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IROBOT 2013, IROBOT 2011)
• Eurobot (2001, 1999)
• IJCAI 2013 Workshop on Machine Learning for Interactive Systems
• CTS 2013 Workshop on Collaborative Robots and Human Robot Interaction
• RSS 2012 Workshop on RGB-D: Advanced Reasoning with Depth Cameras
• IROS 2012 Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding

Conferences and Workshops

• Exhibition Co-Chair, Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2011
• Publicity Co-Chair, Int. Conf. on Social Robotics, ICSR 2010
• Local Chair, European Conf. on Mobile Robots, ECMR 2007
• Local Program Co-Chair, Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2002
• Workshop Organizer and Co-Chair, ICRA 2009 Workshop on People Detection and Tracking (together with O.M. Mozos)
• Workshop Organizer and Co-Chair, IROS 2002 Workshop on Robots in Exhibitions (together with W. Burgard)

Further Activities and Memberships

• Human-Robot Interaction Steering Committee member (from Sept 2013)
• Reviewing for all relevant conferences and journals in robotics
• Reviewing for many conferences and journals in artificial intelligence (e.g. IJCAI, JAIR), computer vision (e.g. IVCJ, JVIS) and machine learning (e.g. NIPS)
• Examination committee member for doctoral thesis "Scene Analysis for Mobile Robots" by Luciano Spinello, advisor Prof. R. Siegwart, ETH Zurich, 2009
• IEEE Member, RAS Society