"The worst scientific posts all start with 'I’m so honored…' or 'I’m excited about…'  Honestly, nobody cares that you’re excited about your latest award or paper. What’s in it for me? They want to learn something that excites them, not you."

if you want to improve the quality of your HRI studies, come to the "workshop YOUR study design" The HRI Conference. our goal is to help researchers develop methodological skills for protocol design and data analysis in user studies. deadline: 20 Feb sites.google.com/view/wysd2024

miriam sturdee @asmirry talked about the importance of going out of our research comfort zone, entering new communities, challenging the status quo. miriam's work on sketching as scientific practice is fire, i recommend looking at her entire body of work: scholar.google.com/citations?hl=e…

Apply now to the "Workshop YOUR Study Design"! 💛 Mentors (who you will received feedback from during the workshop): Ana Paiva, Malte Jung, Dr. Maartje de Graaf, Filipa Correia, Hee Rin Lee, Bertram F. Malle 🎯 Submission due: 20 Feb 2024 🔗 Website: lnkd.in/dEr3CwVy

a must-watch video for anyone working on assistive robotics 🦽

Thanks patrícia alves-oliveira for the invitation to give a lecture on HRI x performing arts and allowing me to experiment with disrupting the traditional concept of a classroom with a combination of meditation, theory and movement. A fun experiment I definitely want to follow up on!

For National Disability Awareness Month University of Michigan organized the Disability Visibility Symposium, showing how Universal Design principles are used in Mechanical Eng and Robotics to create inclusive workstations/labs, e.g., by lowering machine access.

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 🔗 lnkd.in/dt-V68DU Join us!

Today Portugal celebrated 50 years without a dictatorship. We should never forget all those who have fought for our freedom ❤️ theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Classes are done for this semester! I am proud of all the projects my students achieved. It was a really fun class to create and teach. "Design for Human-Robot Interaction" will be offered again in 2025 Michigan Robotics 💙

Balaji Srinivasan is leading a growing tech movement to take over San Francisco and “ethnically cleanse” it of Silicon Valley’s critics. This week gil duran joins Paris Marx to discuss network states and tech’s turn against democracy. Full ep: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/techs-…

thank you for inviting me maria luce lupetti 🖤

During these past two weeks, I attended the Haru Fest in Japan and CHI in Hawaii 🍣 I made a deliberate decision this year to attend conferences outside of my main communities, and I found it valuable to put my research into perspective. I got to meet with incredible people 🖤

Join us in this workshop to talk about LLMs for Well-being RO-MAN 2024! Deadline: 15 June. 💝 Keynote speakers: - Ryan Calo Ryan Calo - Jesse Thomason Jesse Thomason - Emily Cross Emily S. Cross

deadline extended to june 23rd 🥳 more details: sites.google.com/view/hri4wellb… see you in California 🌞

I had the pleasure of visiting the Honda Research Institute Europe, where I had incredible conversations about how robots can support humans in intimate environments 🫂 Thank you Bernhard Sendhoff and Heiko Wersing for hosting me!

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 ☕️

A few beautiful and fun moments from RO-MAN 2024 🌴