The Robotics and Interaction Laboratories at Heriot-Watt University are hosting an Open Day on Thursday 21st June. The Open Day will feature two keynote speakers, Dr Verena Rieser and Dr Mary-Ellen Foster. Along with PhD students they will present research plans and results. The full schedule for the day is detailed below:
| Name | Time | Topic |
| Dr Verena Rieser | 10:00 | Data-driven methods for spoken dialogue systems |
| Ingo Keller | 10:45 | Symbol grounding |
| Yiannis Papaioannou | 11:15 | Socially aware action selection in HRI |
| Teun Krikke | 11:45 | A comparative study of non-negative matrix factorisation and deep learning techniques |
| Igor Shalyminov | 12:15 | End-to-end incremental goal oriented dialogue |
| LUNCH | 12:45 | |
| Dr Mary Ellen Foster | 13:15 | Face-to-face conversation with socially intelligent robots |
| Boris Mocialov | 14:00 | Policy learning for The British Sign Language users |
| Christopher Ritter | 14:30 | Expressive behaviour in graphical characters |
| Calum Imrie | 15:00 | Reaction diffusion in robotic applications |
| Amanda Curry | 15:30 | Automatic evaluation of social response generation systems |
| Eli Sheppard | 16:00 | Video caption generation |
If you wish to attend, please register on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robotics-and-interaction-lab-joint-open-day-tickets-35371687670
Date:
Wednesday, 21 June, 2017 - 10:00 to 16:30
Speaker:
Dr Verena Rieser, Dr Mary-Ellen Foster
Location:
Earl Mountbatten Building, Room 1.82, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh