Martin Cooney

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Martin Cooney

Martin Cooney, Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD



Family Name: Cooney
Given Name: Martin
Role: Postdoctoral Researcher
Title: PhD
Subject: Intelligent Systems for healthcare
Email: martin.cooney@hh.se
url: http://martin-cooney.com
Phone: +46-35-167623
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Current Activities

  • Current Work
    • Smart environment for healthcare with robots
  • Research Interests
    • Human robot interaction
    • Health technology and health innovation


Journal publications registered in DiVA

Martin Cooney, Maria Luiza Recena Menezes (2018). Design for an Art Therapy Robot : An Explorative Review of the Theoretical Foundations for Engaging in Emotional and Creative Painting with a Robot. Multimodal Technologies Interact. Special Issue Emotions in Robots: Embodied Interaction in Social and Non-Social Environments. 2(3)

Martin Cooney, Anita Sant'Anna (2017). Avoiding Playfulness Gone Wrong: Exploring Multi-objective Reaching Motion Generation in a Social Robot. International Journal of Social Robotics. 9(4), pp. 545-562

Conference publications registered in DiVA

Martin Cooney, Linda Ong, Sepideh Pashami, Eric Järpe, Awais Ashfaq (2019). Avoiding improper treatment of dementia patients by care robots. The Dark Side of Human-Robot Interaction: Ethical Considerations and Community Guidelines for the Field of HRI. HRI Workshop, Daegu, South Korea, March 11, 2019.

Martin Cooney, Linda Ong, Sepideh Pashami, Eric Järpe, Awais Ashfaq (2019). Avoiding Improper Treatment of Dementia Patients by Care Robots. The Dark Side of Human-Robot Interaction: Ethical Considerations and Community Guidelines for the Field of HRI. HRI Workshop, Daegu, South Korea, March 11, 2019.

Martin Cooney, Can Yang, Abhilash Padi Siva, Sanjana Arunesh, Jennifer David (2018). Teaching Robotics with Robot Operating System (ROS) : A Behavior Model Perspective. Workshop on “Teaching Robotics with ROS”, European Robotics Forum 2018, Tampere, Finland, March 15, 2018.

Martin Cooney, Josef Bigun (2017). PastVision: Exploring “Seeing” into the Near Past with Thermal Touch Sensing and Object Detection – For Robot Monitoring of Medicine Intake by Dementia Patients. 30th Annual Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society SAIS 2017, May 15–16, 2017, Karlskrona, Sweden.

Martin Cooney, Stefan Karlsson (2015). Impressions of Size-Changing in a Companion Robot. 2nd International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems, PhyCS 2015, ESEO, Angers, Loire Valley, France, 11-13 February, 2015.

Jens Lundström, Wagner Ourique de Morais, Martin Cooney (2015). A Holistic Smart Home Demonstrator for Anomaly Detection and Response. SmartE: Closing the Loop – The 2nd IEEE PerCom Workshop on Smart Environments, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, March 23-27, 2015.