A periodic reminder to reviewers:

If you ask authors for more experiments, then you need to communicate a clear hypothesis you're trying to verify with those (e.g., effectiveness on imbalanced data, generalization beyond a certain modality, scalability, etc).

Otherwise don't!

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

Excellent thread! Thanks to all our guest speakers for a successful MMI launch event! from Google DeepMind: Maria Eckstein , Raphael Koster, Kevin Miller ; from Cambridge University : Henry Shevlin Hatice Gunes ;from @UCL : Nadine Dijkstra Moshe Glickman Xiaoliang (Ken) Luo

At #LEAPHRI , we will be presenting our work exploring 'Federated Learning of Socially Appropriate Agent Behaviours in Simulated Home Environments' benchmarking Federated Continual Learning solutions for Social Robots. shorturl.at/krEP4 #SakshamChecker Hatice Gunes

The afternoon session will host the first Causal Learning for Human-Robot Interaction #CausalHRI workshop at 2:00PM MT. Find us at UMC 382. DM for online details. #JiaeeCheong Luke Guerdan Tabitha Lee Zhao Han Hatice Gunes
causal-hri.github.io

📢 PhD students apply for the #ACII2024 Doctoral Consortium! 🎓💻Explore, share, & receive feedback on your research from international mentors & peers🌍✨ Glasgow, UK, 16-18 Sep. Submission deadline: 10 June. Info & apply ➡️ acii-conf.net/2024/calls/doc… #AffectiveComputing #PhDChat

📢 Call for #ACII2024 Tutorials! 15 September in Glasgow, UK!🎓 Share your knowledge and #AffectiveComputing expertise with the community, proposing half-day or full-day tutorials! 🤖🧠 Submit by 15 May. More info ➡️ acii-conf.net/2024/calls/tut…

Looking for a dataset / software / course on #AffectiveComputing ? Check out our new resource section on the AAAC website: aaac.world/resources/ 🔖If you have a resource you'd like to share with the community, please email us at [email protected] 📨

📢 Call for #ACII24 Special Track contributions! 🚀 Submit your groundbreaking research for our Special Track sessions on 'Artificial Identity & Emotion' and 'HRD-BOND' by 15 March 2024. Details & submission guidelines: acii-conf.net/2024/calls/spe… #AffectiveComputing 🧠🤖

There is much speculation about the risks of releasing powerful AI models openly, but not enough rigorous analysis. To raise the quality of the debate, we brought together 25 authors from 16 academic, industry, and civil society organizations. Out today: crfm.stanford.edu/open-fms/

We're thrilled to announce the launch of UCL’s Minds and Machines Initiative! For more info, visit uclmmi.com All welcome!

🤖📢We are inviting submissions to our special session on 'Social HRI of Human-care Service Robots: Exploring Foundation Models in Social HRI' RO-MAN 2024 2024!

More info 👇 zebehn.github.io/ss_shri_roman2…

🚨Extended Deadline Alert!🕒
Paper submission deadline for Causal-HRI Workshop The HRI Conference is extended by one week.
Paper Submissions due: February 9, 2024
Checkout the updated CFP: easychair.org/cfp/causalhri2…
#JiaeeCheong Luke Guerdan Tabitha Lee Zhao Han Hatice Gunes

Paper submission deadline fast approaching. More details here: causal-hri.github.io

Less than a week left for the paper submission deadline. Submit your work to our workshop on Causal-HRI The HRI Conference 2024.
Check out the CFP here: easychair.org/cfp/causalhri2…
#JiaeeCheong Luke Guerdan Tabitha Lee Zhao Han Hatice Gunes

We welcome you to submit a workshop proposal to ACII 2024 which will take place in Glasgow this year in September (co-located with IVA 2024).
Submission deadline January 26th.
For more information, see here: acii-conf.net/2024/calls/wor…

📢REACT'24 Challenge organised by Cambridge Affective Intelligence and Robotics Lab members & collaborators has extended its deadlines!

Final result & models submission: March 15
Paper submission: March 29
Paper notification: April 5

Register, participate & push the boundaries of facial reaction generation!

Are you interested in learning how causality can empower Human-Robot Interaction?

If so, please join us for the Causal-HRI Workshop 🙋🤖 to be held March 11, 2024 at HRI 2024!

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Thrilled to announce the Causal-HRI: Causal Learning for Human-Robot Interaction to be held at ACM/IEEE The HRI Conference 2024. The call for papers and posters is out. Also checkout our amazing keynote speakers. #JiaeeCheong Tabitha Lee Luke Guerdan Zhao Han Hatice Gunes

Congratulations to Hatice Gunes & all our Cambridge Affective Intelligence and Robotics Lab colleagues (+ their robot friends) who have just been named runners-up for the Collaboration Award at the Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Research Impact & Engagement! #VCAwardsCam