Human Interactivity
and Language Lab
HILL gathers people interested in the importance of interactivity for
human cognition. We study physical, situated, embodied and
value-laden interactions seeking in them both sources and
motivations for cognitive processes and structures.
Selected projects
For ages, dace has had the function of building and strengthening human relationships. This project treats dance improvisation as a sort of laboratory in which human interaction can be observed. We are interested in the means by which an improvising duet manages to generate the feeling of “being together while dancing”.
This project is aimed at strengthening the interdisciplinary field of research on the emergence, understanding and use of abstract concepts and words in human, and in human-machine interaction through the collaboration between the University of Warsaw, the University of Manchester, Sapienza University of Rome and Aarhus University. At the same time, the goal is to strengthen the research potential and research management skills at the University of Warsaw.
The relation of symbolic cognition to embodied and situated bodily dynamics remains one of the hardest problems in the contemporary cognitive sciences. It directly concerns the fundamental assumptions in theories of such basic cognitive processes as thinking and problem solving or using natural language. The present project aims at elaboration and verifying completeness and coherence of a one of the recent theories of the relation between symbol processing and situated action.
Current events
The conference will take place October 24-27 2027 in DPT Wrzos in Kiry, near Zakopane. We talk science in the morning, walk during the day, and finish off with another round of short presentations. This year’s edition focus is on embodiment in education.
We invite you to a lecture of Dr. Miguel Segundo Ortín, in which he’ll talk about an alternative to the cognitive affordance hypothesis. You can either join us in person or online!
Our guest will be Dr. Anthony Faiola from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Faiola is Professor in the College of Nursing, Dept. of Population Health, with an affiliate position at the UC Cancer Center. Previously, he was Professor in the College of Health Sciences, University of Kentucky, with an affiliate position in the Markey Cancer Center. Prior to UK, he was Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, University of Illinois—Chicago.