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We thank you all amazing #ECVP2024 community for the great time here in Aberdeen! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐮 Safe travels back home, and see you next year in Main for #ECVP2025!

As part of the ECVP 2024's Social Calendar, we hosted a highly successful Illusion Night at the Aberdeen Art Gallery. The event attracted a diverse audience, making it a memorable highlight of the conference! ✨ Read more below abdn.io/TI

What would you love to know about soft, flexible robots? 🤖 In the new season, I'll be chatting to Dr Maria Elena Giannaccini (Maria Elena Giannaccini) from University of Aberdeen about soft and bioinspired robotics for healthcare and beyond. Send me your questions for Elena: robottalk.org/ask-a-question/

Have a listen to my supervisor Maria Elena Giannaccini's feature on Robot Talk for a great discussion about soft and bio inspired robots for healthcare

Join the School of Psychology in Aberdeen! We're hiring two lecturers (Teaching & Scholarship), one permanent, one for 12 months. Open to all, but we're keen for people who can contribute to our new MSc Psychology of Mental Health programme. abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/lectur…

This afternoon Camilla Maronati will present at the meeting of phd students in neuroscience (organized by #SINS) the results of the first two parts of our ongoing PRIN project about motor styles🕺🏻 Pop over the poster and stay tuned for the upcoming new results!

Aberdeen Convention Bureau Ambassador of Excellence Awards 2024! We are thrilled to share that the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2024 won several awards! ⭐ Best event over 500 Delegates ⭐ Impact Award ⭐ Developing Ambassador Award: Dr Danai Papadaki

Lovely to meet the members of Dr. Angelica Lim @petitegeek.bsky.social's ROSIELAB and present at their doctoral seminar series on interaction. Thanks for having me! rosielab.ca/seminars

In the final Turing Lecture of the year, Shannon Vallor explored why responses from LLMs seem intelligent and lifelike despite being mere reflections of human data and the profound implications of AI on human life. Watch the full talk: bit.ly/3ZqCOih #AI #TuringLecture

📢OPPORTUNITY ALERT 📢 The annual EASTBIO PhD recruitment competition is now open! Exciting projects are available in our School of Psychology. Deadline is January 17th. Find out more: findaphd.com/phds/school-of…

We're looking for excellent candidates for a fully funded 4-year EastBio DTP PhD project on perspective taking, using EEG & fMRI, with me & Rama Chaktravarthi School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen and Moritz Wurm CIMeC UniTrento Link: tinyurl.com/2s4xbvw3 Deadline: 17-1-2025 Please get in touch!

Can monkeys unlock better human movement analysis? 🐒➡️🧍‍♂️ Our research shows transfer learning from macaques improves pose estimation, requiring fewer human examples. A game-changer for understanding pathological movement! Details: arxiv.org/abs/2412.15966 #markerless #mocap

Please share: We're looking for excellent candidates for a fully funded 4-year EastBio DTP PhD project on perspective taking, using EEG & fMRI, with me & Rama Chakravarthi School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen and Moritz Wurm CIMeC UniTrento Link: tinyurl.com/2s4xbvw3 Deadline: 17-1-2025

We our upcoming PhD conference, we're planning a workshop on careers outside academia, and would love to invite some speaker to tell us about strategies, steps to take, what (not) to do, etc. Would you be able to recommend someone, ideally with a UK perspective? Please RT

Our paper on the control of self-balancing robots has been published! 🎉 This work investigates the genetic algorithm-based control of two-wheel self-balancing robots. 📜 Paper (open access): rdcu.be/ebK8n

👀Can knowing someone’s goal change how you see their actions? Three studies reveal how goal-driven expectations subtly bias action perception — but when the goal is negated, the effect disappears! 🔎see: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #TheoryOfMind #SocialPerception #PredictiveCoding

🚀 Less than a week to apply for a fully funded #PhD opportunity in soft #robotics and tactile sensing! 🎓 The PhD will be part of the Somabotics project (Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI), focussed on creative interaction between humans, AI and robots. More info: somabotics.ac.uk/phd-studentshi…

It was truly exciting to visit S4HRI in Genova, meet iCub 🤖 (straight from my bucket list, huge thanks to Davide De Tommaso and Joel Currie) and learn about the impressive research led by Agnieszka Wykowska. #HRI #humanrobotinteraction

🚀 Dive in 👇 🌐 Project: williamium3000.github.io/core-knowledge/ 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.10855 📝 OpenReview: openreview.net/forum?id=EIK6x… 📊 Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/willi… 💻 Code: github.com/williamium3000… 😎 Team: growing-ai-like-a-child.github.io 💥 Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators