Dr. James Kennedy opens up the 2024 @HRI_Conference
, discussing robots and holographic characters. His 4 tips: design characters (not agents), create coherent and consistent personality, allow for groups, and make people feel heard. #hri2024
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Dr. Kennedy’s Tips for Designing Robot Characters and Holographic Personas
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PhD Defense on Robot Sounds: Ethnography and Pepper Experiments
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Now this is a PhD defense! Congratulations to Dr. Adrian Latupeirissa from KTH on his amazing work on robot sounds – starting from ethnographic work on robots in films to live experiments on the Pepper robot in a museum. It was a pleasure participating on his examining committee.
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Air Canada’s AI Chatbot Refund Policy Creates Legal Complications
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They were heavily investing into AI, according to the Ars Technica article https://
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
24/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/
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Air Canada Chatbot Tribunal Rules on AI Liability
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"While a chatbot has an interactive component, it is still just a part of Air Canada’s website," writes tribunal member. CC @GaryMarcus
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Air Canada Chatbot Liability: Court Rejects Separate Legal Entity Defense
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Air Canada […] argued that it could not be held liable for information provided by the bot.
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Robot Mars POV Video: First-Person Perspective from Red Planet
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Give a video from a robot's POV on Mars
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Intercultural Accommodation in Human-Robot Interaction Research
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Yes! Do you have any papers on intercultural accommodation? There has been some work on culture and HRI, but the non-verbal accommodation piece could be further explored https://
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P
MC8062829/
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Research paper on AI cues suggests culture context integration
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Only had a couple of these cues in this paper, culture and context would be very interesting to add! https://
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Social Signal Recognition: Beyond Emotion Detection in AI
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Could chat at length about this! These days we're trying to do social signal recognition, e.g. detect rather than emotions
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Implementing Research Findings in Robot: Collaboration Opportunity
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Are you planning on implementing the findings in a robot? Let me know if you'd like to collaborate!