🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Oh wow, new research showing how effective robotics and AI to human well-being. Maybe a few social robots wouldn't all that bad after all? arxiv.org/html/2407.0295…

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🌞

Past, Present, and Future: A Survey of The Evolution of Affective Robotics For Well-being. arxiv.org/abs/2407.02957

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 2025 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

Less than 24 hours for #ACII2024! Get ready for ACII 2024 workshops starting tomorrow! 🌟 Looking forward to insightful sessions, hands-on tutorials, and a dive into cutting-edge research. Main conference kicks off Monday—ready for this year's talks?! 🤖🧠

Submit a talk or poster to this year's Emotion Precon Society for Personality and Social Psychology (organized with Casey Brown & @adriennerwood), which will include: talks by Bonnie Le and @EliseKalo AND panel on AI and emotional support 🤖, with Michael Inzlicht, Anat Perry @anatperry.bsky.social, and Desmond Ong! spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2025-pre…

Excited to share that my & Emily S. Cross's paper has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing! 🤖💬 We review studies addressing self-disclosure in HRIs and its impact on emotional well-being. Check it out here: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10700…

I'm on the job market👀seeking TT-faculty and post-doc positions starting Fall 2025 to continue my research in family-centered design of socially interactive systems👀 I wrote a "blog" announcing this & my reflections on our latest RO-MAN'24 publication: linkedin.com/posts/bengisuc…

Paper with Yael Millgram & Matthew Nock: Using two EMA studies, we found that participants with current suicidal thoughts knew less about the sources of their emotions compared to those with no suicidal thoughts, and comp to controls with other psych symptoms. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-32…

Exciting news! Our book chapter, "Cognitive Mechanisms of Being Imitated," is now published! We explore various approaches to studying the effects of being mimicked. Check it out! 📘 Antonia Hamilton Harry Farmer link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

📢 New publication with affective.brain in Nature Human Behaviour Key finding: Human-AI interactions create feedback loops, where AI amplifies human biases, which are then further internalized by humans across perceptual, emotional & social domains. nature.com/articles/s4156… 🧵1/6

What People Share With a Robot When Feeling Lonely and Stressed and How It Helps Over Time. arxiv.org/abs/2504.02991

Join us for the REACT 2025 Challenge on Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation (MAFRG). Developing digital human/virtual agent that can express human-style facial reactions using our recently established MARS dataset (video, audio & EEG). lnkd.in/egrUga42

Tomorrow marks the start of our 1st Conference on Exploring Interdisciplinary Frontiers: Cognitive Science, Computational Modelling, and Artificial Intelligence, taking place 9–10 May at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. I’m honoured to serve as the organising chair this

Hot off the press: Laban, G., Morrison, V., Kappas, A. et al. Coping with Emotional Distress via Self-Disclosure to Robots: An Intervention with Caregivers. Int J of Soc Robotics (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s12369… #socialrobotics #pepperrobot audio: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/eae92…