CFP 🤖📢 @ieeeroman2022 Workshop “Towards Socially Intelligent Robots In Real World Applications: Challenges And Intricacies” organised by SIRRLWaterloo, SoftBank Robotics Europe Centre Inria de l'Université de Lorraine University of Plymouth Deadline: June 30th Workshop: August 24th Info: 👉 sirrw-2022.github.io

#NewPublication: "Opportunities for social robots in the stuttering clinic: A review and proposed scenarios" has been published in Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics. Read the article: degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Congratulations to Professors Moojan Ghafurian, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Colin Ellard and Plinio Morita for winning the CBB Seed Fund Round 5! For more information: uwaterloo.ca/bioengineering… #UWaterlooResearch

🥁We are glad to announce the first Keyspeaker of ICSR 2022: Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn ! We are looking forward to hearing her talk about "New Frontiers in Robot-assisted Therapy and Education". You can find a brief abstract 👉 icsr2022.it/keynotes/

#NewPublication: Our journal paper "A survey on the design and evolution of social robots — Past, present and future, Robotics and Autonomous Systems" got accepted in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are looking for Family Doctors and Nurse Practitioners in Canada to participate in a short interview about their preferences for use of smart home technologies for remote patient monitoring. See below to participate or learn more. uwaterloo.ca/social-intelli…

Looking forward to giving a keynote talk at the SCRITA workshop at @ieeeroman2022 tomorrow

SIRRL member, Dr. Shruti Chandra (shruti chandra) was invited to participate as a Digital Futures fellow at Digitalize in Stockholm Conference 2022 last week. #digitalizeinstockholm- a platform for cross-disciplinary researchers in academia & industry to engage in digital transformation.

Check out this new book on Socially Interactive Agents by Birgit Lugrin, Catherine Pelachaud, and David Traum: dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.11…. SIRRL members Moojan Ghafurian, John Munoz, and Kerstin Dautenhahn contributed to a chapter on Socially Interactive Agents for Supporting Aging.

Article by Akgun, Ghafurian, Crowley, Dautenhahn in IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing proposes emotions as a communication modality in search and rescue robots and a method for using lights to convey a range of emotions in appearance constraint robots: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/99470…

Build an anti-bullying robot. Elaheh (Ellie) Sanoubari, Andy Houston and Kerstin Dautenhahn devised an idea to have children learn bullying intervention techniques by role-playing with a robot who would be the bystander in a peer-bullying story. bit.ly/3F5u0p1

It has been a pleasure to have Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn as Keynote speaker at ICSR !

As a Waterloo Engineering PhD student, Ellie Sanoubari enjoys how “Grad studies sets you up to become more comfortable with failures, while building that resilience to pick yourself up again and take in the feedback given.” Read more: bit.ly/3WjUSrH | #GradImpact

I had a lovely time ICSR2022 where I participated in several ways including a presenter, a session chair and a jury member. Above all, I met amazing and cheerful colleagues and friends in beautiful Florence, Italy!

Pourya Aliasghari presented a paper titled “Kinesthetic Teaching of a Robot over Multiple Sessions: Impacts on Speed and Success” at the ICSR 2022 conference.

SIRRL member, Pourya Aliasghari, was awarded a FOE University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship for his academic achievements in Fall 2022 term.

University of Waterloo Media Relations talked to Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn about great potential for using social robots in the public education system. uwaterloo.ca/news/media/rob…

Robots helping children with disabilities stay on track on Springwise! springwise.com/innovation/edu…

There is one more preprint on sociallyInteractiveAgents.org Chapter 23 on "Socially Interactive Agents for Supporting Aging" Moojan Ghafurian Jen Boger Jesse Hoey #Dautenhahn #UWaterloo Check it out!

7 papers from SIRRL were accepted to RO-MAN 2023.