🔥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

📢📢New publication alert! In this new paper, our MSt students, Alva Markelius, Connor Wright, Joahna Kuiper, Natalie Delille and Yu-Ting Kuo, question the current AI hype and offer a perspective on its planetary and social costs! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We had a great time last night presenting our 2023 Hall of Fame Awards! This is an annual celebration of the companies set up by students, staff and alumni of this Department. Company of the Year went to (drumroll please...) Arm. Congratulations. cst.cam.ac.uk/news/celebrati…

We also celebrate our graduates and staff for their significant humanitarian, philanthropic or social enterprise work. This year, it's the Cambridge Affective Intelligence and Robotics Lab Lab @[email protected] Hatice Gunes Micol Spitale for their work in developing robots to help support our emotional wellbeing.

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!

#FG2024 Very glad to organize our REACT 2024 Challenge in person with Cristina Palmero. #FG2024 We are grateful that our paper 'Multi-modal Human Behaviour Graph Representation Learning for Automatic Depression Assessment' is one of the best student paper candidate! Hatice Gunes

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

What Geoffrey Hinton gets wrong and right about AGI (super short blogpost I just wrote, but links to longer support.) joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/06/what-g…

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

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

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🌞

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 ☕️

FG 2025 first round submissions are due September 23, 2024 by 11:59pm EST. We look forward to your high-quality submissions! Submissions: cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FG2025 FG 2025 site: fg2025.ieee-biometrics.org IEEE Biometrics IEEE ComputerSociety Sayde King #FG2025

I had a survey talk at #Interspeech2024 on automatic speech emotion recognition. Here is my slides, if you are interested. utdallas.box.com/s/w24kxai7uv31…

We've a new paper at the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research introducing a new measure of fairness based on uncertainties of the predictions. As a bonus, our measure provides insights about the sources of bias. For more info, see Selim's post below 👇

The second edition of our Human-Robot Interaction textbook is available. With updated content, new topics (yes we cover how the AI revolution will drive our interaction with bots) and shiny technicolour images. shorturl.at/to3gr Download chapters at human-robot-interaction.org

ACII2024 #ACII2024 organising committee dinner.

An unforgettable night at the #ACII2024 banquet! 🎉 Delicious food, lively ceilidh dancing, and great company—everyone was having an amazing time celebrating together. 🍽️💃 The energy in the room was electric! #ACII2024Banquet

Very happy to share that Murray Edwards College is announcing a new scholarship for women studying data intensive science! This provides a full scholarship to Cambridge's MPhil in Data Intensive Science for eligible students. Please share with your networks!

Mark the Dates Now! Call for Papers from RO-MAN 2025: 📌 Regular & Special Session Papers: 📝 Deadline: Mar 20, 2025 📌 Special Session Proposals: 📝 Deadline: Jan 20, 2025 📌 Workshops & Tutorial Proposals: 📝 Deadline: Feb 10, 2025 More info: ro-man2025.org

Congratulations to Professor Hatice Gunes who has been shortlisted for the Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature. Read more about the award and Professor Gunes' work on our website below. trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/fellow-sh…