SoCoRoInvited Talks
Ruth Aylett, Invited Seminar, HRI Research Group at Christchurch University, Christchurch, New Zealand, November 2018.
Ruth Aylett, Invited Seminar, Robotics Research Group at University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, November 2018. [slides]
Ruth Aylett, Invited Seminar, HRI Research Group at University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, November 2018. [slides]
Ruth Aylett, Trust and Empathy in Robotic Systems for the Support of the Elderly, Shonan Symposium on Multimodal Agents for Ageing and Multicultural Societies, Tokyo, Japan, November 2018.
Ruth Aylett, Social and Assistive Robotics, Workshop on Socially Assistive Robots and Technology for Healthy Aging, Edinburgh, UK, October 2018.
Thusha Rajendran, HRI as Privileged Window into Developmental Conditions, Workshop on Understanding Developmental Disorders: from Computational Models to Assistive Technologies at the 8th Joint IEEE Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-Epirob), Tokyo, Japan, September 2018.
Ruth Aylett, Invited Seminar, Intelligent Agents and Synthetic Characters Group (GAIPS) at University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 2018.
Thusha Rajendran, HRI from a Psychologist’s Perspective, Gateway Event at the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics (ECR), Edinburgh, UK, May 2018.
SoCoRo Team, Socially Competent Robots, Scottish Autism Conference, Edinburgh, UK, March 2018.
Public Engagement
Thusha Rajendran, OK Computer or Paranoid Android?, Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas at the Stand Comedy Club, February 2020.
Thusha Rajendran, OK Computer or Paranoid Android?, Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2019.
Peter McKenna and Ingo Keller, Exhibition, Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 2019.
Thusha Rajendran, Technology as a tool for promoting equality of opportunity for people with developmental conditions, Health, Innovation and Technologies Festival, April 2019.
Ingo Keller and Frank Broz, Alyx: A Social Skills Training Robot for Adults with Autism, SICSA DemoFest, November 2018.
Frank Broz, Public Talk, Art of Possible, Glasgow, UK, January 2018.
SoCoRo Team, Demo, Edinburgh Centre for Robotics Open Day at the UK Parliament, November 2017.
SoCoRo Team, Demo, Year of Robotics Parliamentary Reception at the Scottish Parliament, November 2017.
Peter McKenna and Ayan Ghosh, Socially Competent Robot for High-functioning Adult with an ASD, SICSA DemoFest, October 2017.
Ruth Aylett, The Robots are Coming!, Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2017.
Thusha Rajendran, Media Interview, BBC Blue Peter, August 2017.
Ruth Aylett and Thusha Rajendran, Keynote Speakers, Innovation Robotics, June 2017. [slides]
Frank Broz, Face-to-face: Social human-robot interaction, Pint of Science, May 2017.
Ruth Aylett, Let’s be friends! Robots in everyday human environments, Pint of Science, May 2017.
Press
How robot research could help save humans from themselves, The Herald, 13th May 2018.
Wie guckt der Chef, wenn er sich ärgert?, Frankfurter Allgemeine, 7th March 2018.
Social robot could help autistic adults find work, REUTERS Technology, 27th December 2017.
Robots will help autistic adults cope with work, Scottish Daily Mail, 17th October 2017.
Edinburgh robot could help autistic adults find work, The Scotsman, 16th October 2017.
How robots can help us embrace a more human view of disability, The Conversation, 4th May 2017.
A robotic revolution in healthcare, BBC Scotland, 20th March 2017.
Workshops
Workshop on Graphical and Robotically Embodied Agents for Therapeutic Systems (GREATS), 18th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), Sydney, Australia, November 2018.