The submission system for the International Conference on Social Robotics 2024 is now open, full papers due *July 5* icsr2024.dk/index.php/call… 🦾🧜‍♀️ #odense #icsr2024 I'll be there! 🕰️

Extremely happy and proud to share our newest - fresh off the press - paper in Science Robotics, in which we show that attribuition of intentionality to robot matters for the emergence of sense of joint agency: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

💥 Filled with insightful presentations, intriguing sessions & not-to-be-missed pre-conferences, #ISRE2024 promises to be an enriching experience! Check out the full conference program & get ready to connect, learn & be inspired! 👉 isre2024.org

Have you seen the special issue on #EmbodiedAgents for #Wellbeing yet? Micol Spitale Katie Winkle Hatice Gunes This SI explores how embodied agents impact human-agent interactions and society, focusing on wellbeing. 🔗bit.ly/3WiyUXh Agnieszka Wykowska Serena Ivaldi

This project was both a ridiculous amount of work and fun. The implications are also pretty massive for the field of embodied multimodal AI, give it a read!

DS4MH members @ The Alan Turing Institute The Alan Turing Institute join me today at 3 exploring how 🤖 can enhance emotional wellbeing. I'll provide insights from my research about how these robots establish relationships, support emotion regulation, and their applications in health settings

Great time presenting a poster about LEXI at #ISRE2024 yesterday! Huge thanks to my coauthors Tomer Laban & Hatice Gunes. If you're interested in LEXI, #opensource tool for deploying LLM agents in behavioral experiments, check the preprint ⏭️ arxiv.org/abs/2407.01488 ISRE

Interested in robots and emotion regulation? Come to my talk tomorrow @ #ISRE2024 on Coping with Emotional Distress via Self-Disclosure to Robots: Intervention with Caregivers. See preprint (w Emily S. Cross val morrison Arvid Kappas) ⏭️ osf.io/preprints/psya… ISRE 🤖🧠

That’s a wrap! #ISRE2024 has come to an end! Thank you all for coming and making this a wonderful event together! We hope it has brought you good memories, along with inspiration and partnerships. #LoveQUB

Excited to share that my dissertation won a Dissertation Award 2nd Runner-Up from ISRE! Grateful for the guidance from my amazing supervisors Emily S. Cross & val morrison! Special thanks Arvid Kappas ENTWINE ITN for their support! Thanks #ISRE2024 for the recognition!

After a fantastic #ISRE2024 in Belfast organised by ISRE, I'm delighted to let you know that #CERE205 will be held in Grenoble France on July 16-18, 2025. Co-organised by Consortium of European Research on Emotion and Université Grenoble Alpes, it's website is now live! cere2025.com

🎉 Congratulations to our dissertation award finalists! After a rigorous review process of many impressive submissions, we have discovered together the top three at #ISRE2024! Join us again in applauding their exceptional work and celebrating their dedication and hard work!

Our group annual bbq / picnic in the 1st half of July - 2024 vs. 2023😊 Aside from alumni / new members, the main differences were 'no-sun' vs. 'sun' effect & the intro to new sports: touch rugby & croquet! The sun's luckily been out in Cambridge since the 2nd half of July🌞

Couldn’t agree more with Carme Torras ! The 2024 RoboPhilosophy meeting promises to be truly exciting & stimulating as we discuss & debate risks, responsibility & opportunities of social robots w/AI! 🤖🦾 It’s hybrid, so you too can join us online or in lovely Aarhus! 🇩🇰

We are looking for native English speakers - between 20 and 79 who were born and raised in an English-speaking country (US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) 🥳 If you live in Stockholm, take this unique chance to talk to a robot 🤩 Register: forms.gle/RwufuSAqtYngA3…

Very happy to announce that together with Nikhil Churamani and #matthiaskerzel (Knowledge Technology ) we fixed and normalized the access to the #OMGEmpathyDataset! Now you can download this dataset and use it in your research! More information here: lnkd.in/eshCHGxY

If you are attending RO-MAN 2024 in Pasadena, join us on 8/26 for critical discussions around LLMs for HRI applied to Health 😷 Our invited speakers are Jesse Thomason, Ryan Calo, Emily S. Cross ✨ we will follow up with a hands-on activity on LLMs for HRI. We start at 9:30 ☕️

🚀 Exciting news! CHIA is launching new graduate programmes at Cambridge University : ➡️MPhil in Human-Inspired AI ➡️PhD in Human-Inspired AI Applications open for October 2025. Learn more and apply: 🔗 MPhil: chia.cam.ac.uk/education/mphil 🔗 PhD: chia.cam.ac.uk/education/phd ai@cam