I am co-organizing an incredible workshop about using LLMs for well-being in the context of HRI 🔥 more info below 👇
📢 Keynote speakers: Ryan Calo, Jesse Thomason, Emily S. Cross
🌴 Hosted at IEEE RO-MAN in beautiful Pasadena, California
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Join us!

Interested in pursuing a PhD in my lab S4HRI on the topic of social cognition in human-robot interaction? Keen on living in Genova at the beautiful coast of the Mediterranean? Please contact me directly here, or via email: [email protected]

New paper on children's reciprocity and relationship formation with a social robot out at Technology, Mind and Behavior!🤖 Great work with Ruud Hortensius @[email protected], Evelien Heyselaar, and Tibor Bosse! We found age to be an important factor in child-robot interaction! 🌟 tmb.apaopen.org/pub/sgecyg8o/r…

🚨Looking to fill 2, fully funded positions! I'll be at #CHI2024 so do reach out 🙏🥰
EngD (2 yrs): Interactive AI & Dementia Care
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PhD (4 yrs): Exploring Moral Emotions through Conversational Interaction
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Industrial Design

Join me at #pint24 (Pint of Science UK) for a talk on how we communicate emotions to robots and how they can support our well-being. We'll explore the future of human-🤖relationships through the lens of tech and psych!🧠
🎟️here - shorturl.at/aFQ19
Cambridge Affective Intelligence and Robotics Lab Cambridge Computer Science

We also celebrate our graduates and staff for their significant humanitarian, philanthropic or social enterprise work. This year, it's the Cambridge Affective Intelligence and Robotics Lab Lab @[email protected] Hatice Gunes Micol Spitale for their work in developing robots to help support our emotional wellbeing.

Teaching robots the art of human social synchrony | Science Robotics science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

When CS are collaborating with Psych to do AI-Psych research, the results is almost always better than when they are doing it solo. One great example is recent work by Ashish Sharma on using AI mental health support using reframing . Check it out!
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Daniel Kahneman, who changed psychology and economics forever, dies at 90.

Thanks for everything.

We remember him in 10 great quotes:

Now that the main track submission at ACII2024 is over, take a look at the list of exciting Workshops and Challenges we are hosting at ACII 2024, Glasgow. acii-conf.net/2024/program/w…

A group of us are looking into the possibility of a SIGCHI-sponsored HCI+Health conference. If you're working at the intersection of HCI and Health, we would appreciate your feedback on format, interest in participating, and willingness to volunteer!

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Continuing the spirit of TAHRI and The HRI Conference back Cambridge University, had a wonderful time Cambridge Festival Cambridge Computer Science telling young ones how to negotiate for more candies from Pepper Guy Laban Hatice Gunes Cambridge Affective Intelligence and Robotics Lab

Heads up! 🔔 Abstract deadline for #ACII24 is today (15/03/2024) AOE! ⏰

From Hatice Gunes’s talk ‘‘From Metal Machines to Socially Intelligent Robots’.

Taking a different approach to Henry, emphasising physicality as key.

“What matters is ‘believability’, which hinges on embodiment, personality, speech, affect and learning & adaptation…”

📢 ACII 2024 update: Deadlines extended! 🚀 Abstracts now due 15 Mar, full papers 22 Mar. Don't miss out on presenting at the 12th Int. Conf. on #AffectiveComputing & Intelligent Interaction 🤖 Glasgow, 16-18 Sep 💡 More info & submit here ⏭️ acii-conf.net/2024/important… #ACII24 #CfP

Generative AI for Robotics -- our HRI 2024 workshop is happening today! Interaction Lab Spring H2020 The National Robotarium Edinburgh Robotics Heriot-Watt University