Laurence Devillers is a professor at Paris-Sorbonne University and a researcher at the CNRS's Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur (Limsi), where she leads the research team on Affective and Social Dimensions in Spoken Interaction. Her main areas of research are human-computer interaction, emotion detection, spoken dialogue and affective and interactive robotics. She has taken part in several national (ANR Tecsan Armen, FUI Romeo, BPI Romeo2) and European (Rex Humaine, Chist-era Joker) projects on human-robot affective and social interactions. She also heads up the human-machine co-evolution cluster at the Institut de la société numérique. She helped write the report on the ethics of robotics researchers for the Commission de réflexion sur l'éthique de la recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (Cerna) of the Allistene alliance.
