Mirjam de Haas
Dr. Mirjam de Haas has been working at the Research Group Digital Ethics since 2022. She leads research on Digital Innovation in Healthcare and Wellbeing, as well as in Education. In addition to being a researcher, she is an associate lector at the Institute for ICT, where she is committed to Women in IT and the SDG community.
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Her work focuses on the interaction between people and technology, especially Social Robots for children, but also media literacy, and the ethical use of AI in healthcare.
During her PhD at Tilburg University, she worked in the Horizon 2020 project L2TOR, which aimed to teach young children new words in a second language using social robots. At HU, she continues this work, helping immigrant children learn Dutch using robots.
Expertise
- Social Robots
- Child-robot interaction, second-language learning
- Engagement, perception, social bonding
Mirjam also works on the Wokebot project, using robots to facilitate ethical conversations which she tested at various science festivals (among others Betweterfestival, Liberation Festival, and Lowlands Science).
Mirjam’s work promotes the integration of new technologies in healthcare and education, with a focus on thoroughly preparing users to effectively engage with these technologies.