I gave a Keynote talk on “Robotic Characters for Long-term Interaction” at the 8th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT) held at the 2015 AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE).
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Best submission at SIGAI CNC 2015
My submission “Social Mechanisms to Support Long-term Interactions between Users and Robots” was nominated for Best Submission at the SIGAI Career Network and Conference, an event co-located with AAAI 2015 in Austin, Texas.
2 HRI 2015 papers!
I have two papers accepted at HRI 2015:
Comparing Models of Disengagement in Individual and Group Interactions. Iolanda Leite, Marissa McCoy, Daniel Ullman, Nicole Salomons, Brian Scassellati.
Emotional Storytelling in the Classroom: Individual versus Group Interactions between Children and Robots. Iolanda Leite, Marissa McCoy, Monika Lohani, Daniel Ullman, Nicole Salomons, Charlene Stokes, Susan Rivers, Brian Scassellati.
I am also co-chairing the Video Session this year, so it will be a busy but exciting conference for sure!
IFAAMAS-13 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award
My PhD dissertation, Long-term Interactions with Empathic Social Robots, received an honorable mention in IFAAMAS-13 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award!
This award is named after Professor Victor Lesser, a long standing member of the AAMAS community who has graduated a large number of outstanding PhD students in the area. It is awarded for dissertations written as part of a PhD defended in the specified year, nominated by the supervisor (with supporting references), which show originality, depth, impact and written quality, supported by quality publications. The award is sponsored by IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, and will be presented at AAMAS-2014 Conference in Paris.
HRI 2015 Video Co-Chair
I will be co-chairing the video session of HRI 2015 with Hirotaka Osawa. Looking forward to interesting videos!
New position at Yale
From October 2013 on, I’m a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University at the Social Robotics Lab under the direction of Prof. Brian Scassellati. I’ll be working on the NSF Expedition on Socially Assistive Robotics.
The Economist
Our work in EMOTE was featured in an article published in The Economist about collaboration between robots and humans:
Another approach uses sensors to assess the state of nearby humans, so that robots can respond appropriately. With funding from the European Union, researchers are using bracelets equipped with electrodes to enable classroom robots to determine whether students are bored, confused or anxious. The robots can adapt their teaching style accordingly, says Iolanda Leite of the Instituto Superior Técnico, a Portuguese university participating in the programme, which is called EMOTE. One of its objectives is to foster “social bonding” between people and robots.
The full article is available online here.
