Patrick is a Senior Research Fellow in the Robotics Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire (UK). He is also a supervisor of several PhD students and a Visiting Lecturer at the School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, teaching foundational and advanced topics in computer science.

His research revolves around social robotics and focuses on nonverbal interactive signals, social credibility and trust in assistive and companion robots. He is further interested in interaction architectures and behaviour coordination as well as systems integration in heterogeneous environments. Patrick has extensive expertise in social human-robot interaction and experimentation and is highly skilled with a large array of robotic and sensing technologies. As manager of the Robot House, a unique facility for human-robot interaction, he brings together real-world applications and fundamental robotics research. His research involving the Kaspar robot has a direct impact on the life and learning of children with autism and learning difficulties.

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