Kim Baraka

Human-Robot Interaction researcher // Dance artist ٠ Assistant Prof. @VUamsterdam ٠ Previously @UTAustin @CMU_Robotics @GAIPSLab ٠ Research account ٠ he/they

[Kim Baraka @kimbaraka]

Thanks to @CMU_Robotics for hosting me as a seminar speaker last March with the talk "Why we should build robot apprentices and why we shouldn't do it alone".

Special thanks to @hadmoni and team for being such great hosts!

https://t.co/4IvLB5jjZF

[Kim Baraka @kimbaraka]

Looking for a PhD opportunity where you can bring your reinforcement learning and robotics skills into a human-centered context? We are recruiting 👇

https://t.co/QziOtHnJLE

@herkevanhoof @socialainl

[Kim Baraka @kimbaraka]

@AkankshaSaran 🤖 Another Master student group published "Exploring the Effect of Robotic Embodiment and Empathetic Tone of LLMs on Empathy Elicitation" at the International Conference on Social Robotics in Odense, Denmark (Best Paper Nominee) https://t.co/LRC3H8K00R (5/5)

[Kim Baraka @kimbaraka]

📄 Overdue publication update: my team and I have been actively working on topics surrounding interactive learning and human-robot interaction. (1/5)

[Kim Baraka @kimbaraka]

@AkankshaSaran 🤖 A Master student group published "Audio-Visual Speech Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction: a Feasibility Study" at the International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) in Pasadena, CA https://t.co/xYhMGKl56p (4/5)

[Kim Baraka @kimbaraka]

@shegoeslocofoco Did you follow the links on this page? https://t.co/1qjrd2us8K

[Kim Baraka @kimbaraka]

Registration open for MOCO'24 'Beyond Control' conference at Utrecht University (https://t.co/lwilHn2dMN)

Early bird rate available till April 30.

Some exciting practice works this year!

[Kim Baraka @kimbaraka]

@HayleyHung Yes, I believe so

[Pınar Yolum @pyolum]

Join our team in Hybrid Intelligence as a postdoc! If you are interested in designing and developing methodologies for Hybrid Intelligence, please apply.

PS: We are a collaborative team, and value work-life balance and fun.

Details: https://t.co/Psyme1HdJn

[Kim Baraka @kimbaraka]

Thanks @p_alvesoliveira for the invitation to give a lecture on HRI x performing arts and allowing me to experiment with disrupting the traditional concept of a classroom with a combination of meditation, theory and movement. A fun experiment I definitely want to follow up on!

[Kim Baraka @kimbaraka]

@mlucelupetti @HRI_Conference @davemurrayrust Congrats!

[Kim Baraka @kimbaraka]

Interactive Robot Programming Inspired by Dog Training: An Exploratory Study
(Nienke Schrage-Prent, Daniel F. Preciado Vanegas, Kim Baraka)

Full text https://t.co/cWG7kYNt9k

(4/4)

[Kim Baraka @kimbaraka]

If you are at HRI'24 this week, come check out 3 of my (now graduated) Master students' cool work on different (human-centered) aspects of interactive robot learning! Tomorrow Wednesday 5pm MT.

Titles of individual LBRs below.

@HRI_Conference

(1/4)

[Kim Baraka @kimbaraka]

Uncovering Patterns in Humans that Teach Robots through Demonstrations and Feedback (Konstantinos Christofi and Kim Baraka)

Full text https://t.co/kHch4vU4Hi

(3/4)

[Kim Baraka @kimbaraka]

Using Proxemics as a Corrective Feedback Signal during Robot Navigation (Adwitiya Mandal and Kim Baraka)

Full text here
https://t.co/JpT4iPk7HC

(2/4)

[Kim Baraka @kimbaraka]

@DrEsamGhaleb I don't believe so but I would suggest contacting the main organizers and asking directly.

[Kim Baraka @kimbaraka]

If you're a researcher broadly interested in Human-AI communication, consider submitting your contribution to our workshop at HHAI'24 👇
https://t.co/6iucsdBvsW

[Kim Baraka @kimbaraka]

Collective dreaming (aka generative video models)

[Angry Tom @AngryTomtweets]

The OpenAI team continues posting incredible Sora videos.

Here are 10 new ones:

1. POV footage of an ant navigating the inside of an ant nest