Safe travels to all presenters and attendees for the MENHIR Project Conference Ulster University tomorrow. It will be a good catchup time for all partners Universidad Granada UniversitàVanvitelli UPV/EHU Universität Ulm @intelligentvox Action Mental Health GLOBIT- Global Information Technology GmbH Ulster University Belfast is the place to be ✈️🚝🚢🚗🚌

Thanks to Furhat Robotics for the interesting conference and contributing to a great rap-style discussion between Baba Brinkman and Furhat, about #socialrobotics and #GPT : youtube.com/watch?v=_dYCrM…

New course! Generative AI with Large Language Models, created with Amazon Web Services and hosted on Coursera. This course goes deep into the technical foundations of LLMs and how to use them. You can sign up here: deeplearning.ai/courses/genera… You’ll work through the full life-cycle of a

Check it out: Ethical Considerations for Language-capable Robots, in Communications of the ACM by Tom Williams @tomwilliams.phd on bsky, Cynthia Matuszek Cynthia Matuszek, Kristiina Jokinen pkjokinen, Raj Korpan Raj Korpan, Ph.D, James Pustejovsky James Pustejovsky, Brian Scassellati Brian Scassellati dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Biju Thankachan @TampereUni presenting a joint paper with Markku Turunen and me at Association for Computing Machinery PETRA conference petrae.org/index.html linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Check out our paper at RO-MAN 2023: Fujii & Jokinen, Predicting the Impressions of Interaction with a Robot from Physical Actions Using AICO-Corpus Annotations RO-MAN 2025

Check out our paper at RO-MAN 2023 RO-MAN 2025 Wilcock and Jokinen "To Err Is Robotic; to Earn Trust, Divine: Comparing #ChatGPT and #KnowledgeGraphs for #HRI ". ro-man2023.org/overview/about… #GenerativeAI #LLMs

Apparently our paper was the 6th most popular talk 😄 at RO-MAN 2025 #HRI #LLMs #GenerativeAI

Interesting seminar at DWIH_Tokyo on #Discursive and Material Dimension of the #DigitalTransformation dwih-tokyo.org/en/event/dx/ JEG Celia Spoden Harald Kümmerle 柳川範之

Enjoyed the visit by Folkhälsan from @Finland to #AI #ResearchCenter (AIRC) at AIST: presentations of e-VITA EU Japan Virtual Coach for Smart Ageing ミサワホーム株式会社 and inspiring discussions on #wellbeing #trustworthyai #socialrobots #smarthomes

The SIGdial 2024 website has been released! I will serve as the local chair at this conference. Please consider submitting your papers and also visiting Kyoto🗾 2024.sigdial.org

Honored to give a keynote at NII Shonan Meeting organised by Shogo Okada JAIST, Yukiko Nakano Seikei University, Wolfgang Minker Universität Ulm, Elisabeth André Augsburg University on #Conversational #Qualities in #Dyadic and #Group #Interactions shonan.nii.ac.jp/seminars/202/

EU-Japan project e-VITA EU Japan Virtual Coach for Smart Ageing Final Seminar "The Future of Ageing: Embracing Technology for a Fulfilling Life", at Télécom SudParis. More info and registration: e-vita.coach/homepage/final…

pkjokinen chair technical session "How Advanced Technologies Contribute to a #BetterAgeingSociety: #ArtificialIntelligence and #IoTTechnology" at e-VITA EU Japan Virtual Coach for Smart Ageing Final seminar March 8

I'm one of the organisers of the workshop "#LLMs and #KnowledgeGraphs", with excellent speakers and interesting topics. Participation via Evita e-vita.coach/homepage/final… #pkjokinen

The 14th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology starts today:  sites.google.com/grp.riken.jp/i… organised by Satoshi Nakamura NAIST (English) Koichiro Yoshino RIKEN Matthias Kraus Augsburg University Kristiina Jokinen AIST

Proud and happy as a panelist in the fantastic seminar #womeninscience organised by Nordic Innovation House - Tokyo

#GEMINI (Graph-based knowlEdge for Modelling Intelligent Natural Interaction) Special Session at SIGdial in Kyoto focussing on the challenges and opportunities of #KnowledgeGraphs and #LLMs to enhance #dialogue_modelling for #intelligent #VirtualAgents and #Robots

Don't miss the May 17 deadline to submit to #Sigdial2024 Special Session #GEMINI (Graph-based knowlEdge for Modelling Intelligent Natural Interaction) 2024.sigdial.org/call-for-paper… #KnowledgeGraphs #LLMs #dialogue_modelling #intelligent #VirtualAgents #Robots

In Torino LREC COLING 2024 started, second day exciting workshops like NeuSymBridge: "Bridging #Neurons and #Symbols for #NaturalLanguageProcessing and #KnowledgeGraphs #Reasoning" program here: neusymbridge.github.io/workshop_progr…… Nicoletta Calzolari Tiansi Dong Pascale Fung Alessandro Lenci Volker Tresp