David Robb

A fantastic final all-hands meeting with the @tas_trust team. Thank you to @imperialcollege for hosting us and to the #CNR_Palermo team for joining us.

Looking forward to presenting our paper @ #CASE2024 researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/publication…

Want to collaborate with our robot in solving a maze in the HRI lab @NRobotarium @HeriotWattUni? Participants get a £10 Amazon voucher. Don't miss out on participating in HWU @tas_trust science in person. For info and to book your appointment visit: bit.ly/hwu_participate

Have you ever wanted to chat with a robot? Now's your chance! 🤖Come along to @NRobotarium to get involved in a research project exploring human-robotic interaction. You can contact @nagunson to find out more or follow this link: bit.ly/4aL6L0u

Wanna come and do HCI, Social Computing or Digital Civics research with us at @NorthumbriaUni ? we are recruiting new Postdocs right now - deadline 20 May. Ping me or @kylemontague for a chat, or catch me at #chi2024 🙂 jobs.ac.uk/job/DHC430/res…

Looking to do a cross-disciplinary PhD in Artificial Intelligence starting this September in UK? We want to hear from applicants who want to put people at the heart 🩷 of the AI design conversation. Deadline to apply is 8th April.

I am recruiting. Two exciting part-time positions one in HRI and one in User Centered AI and Privacy Enhancing Technologies: ittgroup.org/vacancies/ @NRobotarium @EDINrobotics @ITT_Research

Roll up! Get your tickets for the Scottish AI Summit! I'll be representing @tas_trust @NRobotarium @HeriotWattUni on a panel there fielding questions from the audience on Trust in AI. Read more here: linkedin.com/posts/scottish…

ACL org announcement: 📢The list of accepted workshops in the ACL Conferences (@aclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting, @emnlpmeeting) in 2024 is out! Please help spread the word. Retweeting w/ references, esp. w/organisers information is very much appreciated - thanks! #NLProc

The @NRobotarium point out that our group @HeriotWattUni @EDINrobotics have won the KROS Interdisciplinary Research Award in Social Human-Robot Interaction two years in a row now 😀 I guess KROS like what we are doing with our @furhatrobotics robots linkedin.com/posts/the-nati…

🎉New article from @Dar14Dave @muneeb06 @PeterMcKenna89 @hfhastie and colleagues in @FrontiersIn #robotics and #ai, "Seeing eye to eye: trustworthy embodiment for task-based conversational agents" Article link: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #trust #hri #research #robots

Thank you again to Chengkun Zhang, Ph.D., President of Futronicsus (NA) Corporation (futronicsus.com) for his super photography skills!

And the winner is!!!... in the @ieeeroman 2023 Busan, KROS Interdisciplinary Research Award in Human-Robot Interaction, "Feeding the Coffee Habit: A Longitudinal Study of a Robo-Barista", M.Lim, D.Robb, B.Wilson,H.Hastie @tas_trust @EDINrobotics @HeriotWattUni🙂

Thank you to Chengkun Zhang, Ph.D., President of Futronicsus (NA) Corporation (futronicsus.com) for his great kindness in taking the photograph!

Honorable Mention as a finalist! in the @ieeeroman KROS Interdisciplinary Research Award in Human-Robot Interaction for "Come Closer: The Effects of Robot Personality on Human Proxemics Behaviours", M.Moujahid, D.Robb, C.Dondrup,H.Hastie. @tas_trust @EDINrobotics @HeriotWattUni

I'm waiting pensively with the other KROS Interdisciplinary Research Award in Social Human-Robot Interaction finalists @ieeeroman with Program Chair, Emila Barakova at the podium in the awards ceremony

I had the pleasure of presenting Bruce Wilson's et al's LBR poster, "FurNav: Development and Preliminary Study of a Robot Direction Giver", @ieeeroman #roman2023 , yet another example of his excellent work for the CDT @EDINrobotics @NRobotarium

Great view from the RO-MAN 2023 conference cruise off Haeundae Beach, Busan @ieeeroman #roman2023 @tas_trust

RO-MAN 2023 is off to a ... loud ... start with a Rocking band of Roboticists blowing away the stage at the welcome reception! @ieeeroman #roman2023 @tas_trust