CANCELLED: Persuasive Social Robots for Youth Participation in Digital Civics

Date: 
Fri, 03/04/2020 - 14:15 to 15:30
Location: 
MF2, 4th Floor, Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: 
Kaisa Väänänen and Kirsikka Kaipainen
Tampere University

Social robots can be designed to entail persuasive capabilities in various application domains. We investigate how social robots can be designed to motivate and facilitate youth in civic participation. In our RoboCivics project, social robots are co-designed with the youth (15-24 years) to gain understanding of the youth’s perspectives to desirable forms of social robot interaction, with sustainability as the application domain. User trials take place in real contexts of use such as youth spaces, schools and shopping centres.

IPAB Workshop: On the need for inductive biases in robot learning

Date: 
Thu, 06/02/2020 - 12:45 to Fri, 07/02/2020 - 13:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum G.03
Speaker: 
Michael Burke
University of Edinburgh

The next IPAB Workshop will take place on 06/02/2020 at 12:45 in room G.03 (pastries will be served). Michael Burke will be speaking.

 

Speaker: Michael Burke

Title: On the need for inductive biases in robot learning

Shared Autonomy: The Future of Interactive Robotics

Date: 
Thu, 23/01/2020 - 18:00 to Fri, 24/01/2020 - 18:45
Location: 
V&A Dundee, Juniper Autitorium
Speaker: 
Sethu Vijayakumar
University of Edinburgh

From unmanned space exploration to self-driving cars - how willing are we to share control?

These technologies are now a reality. Robots are ready to share control, but how much are humans willing to give up?

Join Professor Sethu Vijayakumar to explore advances in machine learning and discover how the next generation of robots will work much more closely with humans, other robots and interact significantly with the environment around it.

RESCHEDULED Responsible Research and Innovation Training - 2019 cohort 4 & 5 November

Date: 
Wed, 04/11/2020 - 09:00 to Thu, 05/11/2020 - 11:45
Location: 
On-line

This is a mandatory training course for the 2019 cohort.

Please note that this online training will be held over 2 days as follows:

Wednesday 4th November – 10.00 - 12.00 hours; 14.00 - 16.00 hours

Thursday 5th November  - 10.00 - 12.00 hours; 14.00 - 16.00 hours

Please note that you will need a desktop, laptop or similar to be able to participate fully in online discussions and group work held in virtual breakout rooms.  Mobile devices can limit the functionality of the interactions so they should only be used where no other option is available.

Annual CDT conference

Date: 
Tue, 06/10/2020 - 09:00 to 16:30
Location: 
On-line

CDT RAS sixth annual conference (virtual) on Tuesday 6th October. The conference will be hosted using Zoom and Padlet.

About this Event

Programme

10:00 Conference opens with welcome and introduction by directors, Prof. Helen Hastie and Prof. Michael Mistry

10.20 Keynote speaker Professor Metin Sitti from Max Planck institute