We're looking for interns to join us at @AmazonScience! Come build the future of AI with us.
We just launched Alexa+ in the UK and there's so much more to come ๐
MS/PhD students in GenAI, LLMs, speech, NLP & more - this one's for you. Based in London or Cambridge.
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๐ข Call for Papers: #SIGDIAL2026
Submit your latest work on discourse & dialogue to the 27th Annual SIGdial Conference (Atlanta, July 13โ15, 2026)!
๐ Deadlines (AoE)
โข Mar 23 โ Title & abstract
โข Mar 30 โ Full paper (PDF)
โข May 4 โ ARR commitment
โข May 25 โ Notifications
This was a major collaboration across Europe, huge thanks to:
@oliverlemon for leading the team from @HeriotWattUni, and all SPRING partners & colleagues who made it possible (see the huge author list!)
A milestone for socially assistive robotics in healthcare! ๐ค๐ฌ
Our SPRING Project paper has just been published in the International Journal of Social Robotics! ๐
๐ Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare
We explore how hospital patients & our robot Ari can engage in natural, useful conversations
https://t.co/mljalwUC6l
The paper ties together work from 8 institutions to advance humanโrobot interaction (HRI) in real healthcare settings
We address:
โข Robot navigation in clinical environments
โข Speech processing & non-verbal behaviour
โข Accessible conversational AI for older adults
โข & more!
It has been wonderful collaborating with my friends at @HeriotWattUni 's Interaction Lab (@iLab_hwu). Thanks!
In January, I submitted my PhD thesis titled: "Incremental Multi-party Conversational AI for People with Dementia"
Luckily, even the sun came out for graduation day โ๏ธ
Congratulations to artificial intelligence graduate John-Angus Addlesee, who is the third generation of his family following his father and grandfather to study at Heriot-Watt University. ๐๐
#HeriotWattUni #HWUGradCongratulations to artificial intelligence graduate John-Angus Addlesee, who is the third generation of his family following his father and grandfather to study at Heriot-Watt University. ๐๐
#HeriotWattUni#HWUGrads
Thrilled to get this paper out, a great collaboration with @UCL_VoCoLab, @Addlesee_AI and @verena_rieser on how self-bias and sense of agency over a voice is altered when that voice is used to represent oneself in a social interaction.
Multi-party Multimodal Conversations Between Patients, Their Companions, and a Social Robot in a Hospital Memory Clinic
Angus Addlesee, N. Cherakara, N. Nelson, D.H. Garcia, N. Gunson, W. Sieiลska, C. Dondrup, O. Lemon
https://t.co/DaxMXffu1F
Best Demo Award #eacl2024