CITEC researcher Patrick Holthaus successfully defended his dissertation on 10 February. Holthaus is part of the “Applied Informatics” research group.

His dissertation is titled “Approaching Human-Like Spatial Awareness in Social Robotics - An Investigation of Spatial Interaction Strategies with a Receptionist Robot”.  Dr. Sven Wachsmuth (Bielefeld University) Prof. Giorgio Metta PhD (Italian Institute of Technology) served as advisors.

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