Speaker
Sara Esperto
Description
As autonomous systems become increasingly integrated into industrial, research, and everyday environments, the challenge is no longer only about building capable machines, but about designing systems that humans can understand, trust, and effectively collaborate and communicate with. Despite significant progress in autonomy and AI, many failures arise from a mismatch between machine behaviour and human cognitive expectations. This talk explores the role of Shared Mental Models (SMMs) in safe Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and how UX designing principles and cognitive psychology can be combined to design functional autonomous systems that are also predictable and trustworthy in real-world contexts like CERN (e.g. Robodog, TIM).