Interaction Lab

The Interaction Lab at Heriot-Watt University

[Interaction Lab @iLab_hwu]

Welcome to iLab Wrapped!!🎉🎉

It's the end of 2023, so let's take a dive into some of the Interaction Lab's papers.

Please follow your favourite authors so you can keep up with their work beyond their time at @iLab_hwu

(apologies if the thread updates slowly - @Addlesee_AI)

[Amit Parekh @amitkparekh_]

What if your multimodal model succeeds when given nonsensical instructions? What if it even succeeds without being told explicitly what to do? Have we finally achieved AGI?
We answer at least two of those questions w/ @NikVits @ale_suglia @sinantie (🧵for more)

[Malvina Nikandrou @MNikandrou]

🚀 Excited to share our latest paper: "Enhancing Continual Learning in Visual Question Answering with Modality-Aware Feature Distillation"!

Paper: https://t.co/x0xYonE8ST (1/5)

[Alessandro Suglia @ale_suglia]

Are you using LLMs for evaluating your model? You might want to read our paper where we present JUDGE-BENCH. See the thread below and the associated paper on arxiv: https://t.co/LXKfZmFGTs

Fantastic collaboration effort with many @ELLISforEurope members!

[Angus Addlesee @Addlesee_AI]

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 ☀️

[Dr Bryony Payne @bryony_payne]

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.

[Heriot-Watt Engage @HWEngage]

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: https://t.co/surssy8Boe

[Alessandro Suglia @ale_suglia]

Excited to announce that "Lost in Space: Probing Fine-grained Spatial Understanding in Vision and Language Resamplers" was accepted at #NAACL2024.

Work led by @GeorgePantazop3 with co-authors @oliverlemon @arash_eshghi
@EDINrobotics @NRobotarium

https://t.co/AWGqc8LAPr

[Pete McKenna @PeterMcKenna89]

Thanks to everyone who helped at our @EdSciFest event yesterday 'Two Truths and A Robot Lie', including scifest team, @NRobotarium, @HWEngage, and @AdamSmithHouse.

The event was a big success engaging the public with the history of Adam Smith, and the science of #robots and #AI

[Alessandro Suglia @ale_suglia]

It was great presenting my recent work on Embodied AI and multimodal language models. Many thanks for the invite @PMinervini and many thanks to everyone that attended both in-person and online!