Maria Hedblom

Assistant Professor Computer Science
Department of Computing , School of Engineering

In 2018, Hedblom got a Dr Eng in Theoretical Computer Science at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germarny. Before that, she received an MSc in Cognitive Science at Linköping University, Sweden. 

Her main research topics concern cognitively-inspired AI, spatiotemporal reasoning, computational creativity and commonsense reasoning for robotics. Her most prominent contribution concerns her formal work on integrating linguistic and psychological theories on image schemas into AI frameworks. 

Article

Pomarlan, M., Hedblom, M., Porzel, R. (2023). Curiously exploring affordance spaces of a pouring task Expert systems (Print), 40(6). More information
Höffner, S. Porzel, R. Hedblom, M. Pomarlan, M. Cangalovic, V. Pfau, J. , ... Malaka R. (2022). Deep understanding of everyday activity commands for household robots Semantic Web, 13(5), 895-909. More information

Book chapter

Hedblom, M. (2022). Methodological reflection of the documentalysis of .co.kr from the %WRONG Browser series. In: I. Hinterwaldner, D. Hönigsberg & M. Konstantin (Ed.), Navigation (pp. 33 -39). Hildesheim: Open Publishing LMU More information

Conference paper

Hedblom, M. (2023). When Push Comes to Shove: A Formal Analysis of the Conceptual Primitives in Pushing. Seventh Image Schema Day, co-located with The 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2023), Rhodes, Greece, September 2-4, 2023. More information
Mossakowski, T., Hedblom, M., Neuhaus, F., Arboleda, S., Raake, A. (2023). Using the Diagrammatic Image Schema Language for Joint Human-Machine Cognition. 60th ISC, Ilmenau Scientific Colloquium, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany, 4-8 September 2023. More information
Dhanabalachandran, K., Hedblom, M., Beetz, M. (2022). Getting on top of things: Towards intelligent robotic object stacking through image-schematic reasoning. Sixth Image Schema Day 2022, Jönköping, Sweden, March 24-25th, 2022. More information
Hedblom, M., Neuhaus, F. (2022). Visualising image schemas: A preliminary look at the Diagrammatic Image Schema Language (DISL). Sixth Image Schema Day 2022, Jönköping, Sweden, March 24-25th, 2022. More information
Righetti, G., Porello, D., Troquard, N., Kutz, O., Hedblom, M., Galliani, P. (2022). Asymmetric Hybrids: Dialogues for Computational Concept Combination (Extended Abstract). 31st International Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-22), 23-29 July, 2022, Vienna, Austria. More information
Dhanabalachandran, K., Hedblom, M., Beetz, M. (2022). A balancing act: Ordering algorithm and image-schematic action descriptors for stacking objects by household robots. The Eighth Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO22), RobOntics: 3rd International Workshop on Ontologies for Autonomous Robotics Jönköping, Sweden, August 15-19, 2022. More information
Pomarlan, M., De Giorgis, S., Hedblom, M., Diab, M., Tsiogkas, N. (2022). Thinking in front of the box: Towards intelligent robotic action selection for navigation in complex environments using image-schematic reasoning. The Eighth Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO22), RobOntics: 3rd International Workshop on Ontologies for Autonomous Robotics Jönköping, Sweden, August 15-19, 2022. More information
Dhanabalachandran, K., Hassouna, V., Hedblom, M., Kümpel, M., Leusmann, N., Beetz, M. (2021). Cutting Events: Towards Autonomous Plan Adaption by Robotic Agents through Image-Schematic Event Segmentation. 11th on Knowledge Capture Conference, K-CAP ’21, December 2–3, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. More information
Pomarlan, M., Hedblom, M., Porzel, R. (2021). Panta Rhei: Curiosity-Driven Exploration to Learn the Image-Schematic Affordances of Pouring Liquids. The 29th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science 2021, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, December 9-10, 2021. More information
Righetti, G., Porello, D., Troquard, N., Kutz, O., Hedblom, M., Galliani, P. (2021). Asymmetric Hybrids: Dialogues for Computational Concept Combination. Twelfth International Conference (FOIS 2021) . More information

Conference proceedings (editor)

Hedblom, M., Kutz, O. (Eds.). (2023). ISD7 2023, The Seventh Image Schema Day: Proceedings of the Seventh Image Schema Day, co-located with The 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2023). More information
Aussenac-Gilles, N., Hahmann, T., Galton, A., Hedblom, M. (Eds.). (2023). Formal ontology in information systems: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference (FOIS 2023). , Amsterdam: IOS Press More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O. (Eds.). (2022). Proceedings of the Sixth Image Schema Day 2022: Jönköping, Sweden, March 24-25th, 2022. More information
Hedblom, M., Kutz, O. (Eds.). (2022). ISD6 The Image Schema Day 2022. More information
Hedblom, M., Kantosalo, A., Confalonieri, R., Kutz, O., Veale, T. (Eds.). (2022). Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity. More information
Sales, T., Hedblom, M., Tan, H. (Eds.). (2022). Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops 2022, Episode VIII: The Svear Sommar of Ontology. More information
Righetti, G., Hedblom, M., Kutz, O. (Eds.). (2022). Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops 2022, Episode VIII: The Svear Sommar of Ontology: CAOS VI: 6th International Workshop on Cognition and Ontologies. More information