{"193891":{"#nid":"193891","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alan Wagner Receives Air Force Young Investigator Program Award for Social Robotics Work","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPortions of this news release originally appeared on the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/news\/gtri-wagner-recognized-air-force-award\u0022\u003EGTRI website\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and were authored by Robert Nesmith.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECombining psychology and high-end robotics research,\u0026nbsp;Alan Wagner, a research scientist in the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and the Robotics \u0026amp; Intelligent Machines Center (RIM), works to create robots that will interact with a wide variety of people in as many different social situations as possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWagner, who works in GTRI\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/atas\u0022\u003EAerospace, Transportation and Advanced Systems Laboratory\u0026nbsp;(ATAS)\u003C\/a\u003E, is one of 40 recipients of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (AFOSR YIP) award for his proposal\u0026nbsp;\u201cTrust and Trustworthiness in Human-Robot Interaction: A Formal Conceptualization.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOpen to young scientists and engineers at research institutions who have shown an exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research,\u0026nbsp;the award is given to\u0026nbsp;those who have received their doctoral or equivalent degree within the last five years and includes $360,000 over three years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;Air Force Office of Scientific Research (ASOFR)\u0026nbsp;received\u0026nbsp;192 proposals in response to its solicitation in major areas of interest to the Air Force, including\u0026nbsp;aerospace, chemical and material sciences; physics and electronics; and mathematics, information, and life sciences. Wagner and School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Yang Wang are the only two Georgia Tech award recipients for 2013.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWagner\u2019s research interests include social robotics, social learning, and human-robot interaction. He joined GTRI in January 2010. Focusing on robot-human interaction in a wide variety of social situations, Wagner\u2019s work draws heavily on theory from social psychology and aims to develop the computational underpinnings that will not only allow a robot to act \u201csocially\u201d in the presence of humans, but will also allow the robot to reason about a person\u2019s own social behavior.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese are very competitive awards, reserved for those earlier career researchers that the Air Force deems as demonstrating exceptional ability and promise,\u201d\u0026nbsp;said Georgia Tech Vice President and GTRI Director Bob McGrath.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.designnews.com\/author.asp?section_id=1386\u0026amp;doc_id=258091\u0026amp;itc=dn_analysis_element\u0026amp;dfpPParams=ind_182,industry_gov,aid_258091\u0026amp;dfpLayout=blog\u0026amp;dfpPParams=ind_182,industry_gov,aid_258091\u0026amp;dfpLayout=blog\u0022\u003Eprevious work\u003C\/a\u003E with another RIM faculty member, College of Computing Associate Dean \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/ronald-arkin\u0022\u003ERon Arkin\u003C\/a\u003E, Wagner developed, implemented, and tested algorithms that allowed a robot to model and deceive an interactive partner. For this latest proposal, Wagner applies the same framework to the opposite end of the spectrum: trust.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWagner, who works in GTRI\u2019s\u0026nbsp;Aerospace, Transportation and Advanced Systems Laboratory\u0026nbsp;(ATAS), is one of 40 recipients of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (AFOSR YIP) award for his proposal\u0026nbsp;\u201cTrust and Trustworthiness in Human-Robot Interaction: A Formal Conceptualization.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alan Wagner receives a 2013 AFOSR YIP award."}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2013-02-20 14:12:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:40","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"193921":{"id":"193921","type":"image","title":"Alan Wagner","body":null,"created":"1449179891","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:58:11","changed":"1475894843","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:23","alt":"Alan Wagner","file":{"fid":"196363","name":"alanwagneriii.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alanwagneriii_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alanwagneriii_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":6105288,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/alanwagneriii_0.jpg?itok=6GzboeNz"}}},"media_ids":["193921"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~alanwags\/","title":"Alan Wagner"},{"url":"http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/","title":"Center for Robotics \u0026 Intelligent Machines"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.wpafb.af.mil\/afrl\/afosr\/","title":"Air Force Office of Scientific Research"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"59191","name":"alan wagner"},{"id":"59241","name":"ATAS"},{"id":"1366","name":"defense"},{"id":"416","name":"GTRI"},{"id":"1222","name":"psychology"},{"id":"59231","name":"RIM Air Force"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"59221","name":"Robotics \u0026 Intelligent Machines Center"},{"id":"1512","name":"Young Investigator Award"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJosie Giles\u003Cbr \/\u003ERIM Communications Officer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:josie@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejosie@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["RIM@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}