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SIRRLWaterloo @SIRRLWaterloo

Social and Intelligent Robotics Research Lab - The goal of our research is to advance knowledge in social and intelligent robotics. #UWaterloo

Joined September 2020
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7 papers from SIRRL were accepted to RO-MAN 2023.
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Birgit Lugrin@BirgitLugrin
1 Apr 2023
There is one more preprint on sociallyInteractiveAgents.or… Chapter 23 on "Socially Interactive Agents for Supporting Aging" @MoojanGhafurian @researcher_jen @drjessehoey #Dautenhahn #UWaterloo Check it out!
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Robots helping children with disabilities stay on track on Springwise! springwise.com/innovation/ed…

Robots helping children with disabilities stay on track - Springwise

The robots use jokes and breathing exercises to help students focus

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University of Waterloo Media Relations talked to Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn about great potential for using social robots in the public education system. uwaterloo.ca/news/media/robo…

Robot helps students with learning disabilities stay focused |

Engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo are successfully using a robot to help keep children with learning disabilities focused on their work. This was one of the key results in a new

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SIRRL member, Pourya Aliasghari, was awarded a FOE University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship for his academic achievements in Fall 2022 term.
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Pourya Aliasghari presented a paper titled “Kinesthetic Teaching of a Robot over Multiple Sessions: Impacts on Speed and Success” at the ICSR 2022 conference.
ICSR2022@icsr2022
14 Dec 2022
Shots of Oral Session 5: Social robots as advanced educational tools 🤖📚 @brittanyaduncan and @dsa4bots as session chairs
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University of Waterloo@UWaterloo
17 Dec 2022
As a @WaterlooENG PhD student, Ellie Sanoubari enjoys how “Grad studies sets you up to become more comfortable with failures, while building that resilience to pick yourself up again and take in the feedback given.” Read more: bit.ly/3WjUSrH | #GradImpact
Ellie Sanoubari

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Waterloo Engineering@WaterlooENG
14 Dec 2022
Build an anti-bullying robot. Elaheh (Ellie) Sanoubari, Andy Houston and Kerstin Dautenhahn devised an idea to have children learn bullying intervention techniques by role-playing with a robot who would be the bystander in a peer-bullying story. bit.ly/3F5u0p1
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ICSR2022@icsr2022
15 Dec 2022
It has been a pleasure to have Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn as Keynote speaker at ICSR !
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shruti chandra@rsshruti
18 Dec 2022
I had a lovely time @icsr2022 where I participated in several ways including a presenter, a session chair and a jury member. Above all, I met amazing and cheerful colleagues and friends in beautiful Florence, Italy!
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Article by Akgun, Ghafurian, Crowley, Dautenhahn in IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing proposes emotions as a communication modality in search and rescue robots and a method for using lights to convey a range of emotions in appearance constraint robots: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document…
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Check out this new book on Socially Interactive Agents by Birgit Lugrin, Catherine Pelachaud, and David Traum: dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/…. SIRRL members Moojan Ghafurian, John Munoz, and Kerstin Dautenhahn contributed to a chapter on Socially Interactive Agents for Supporting Aging.

The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 years of Research on Embodied Conversational...

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SIRRL member, Dr. Shruti Chandra (@rsshruti) was invited to participate as a @dig_futures fellow at Digitalize in Stockholm Conference 2022 last week. #digitalizeinstockholm- a platform for cross-disciplinary researchers in academia & industry to engage in digital transformation.
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Moojan Ghafurian@MoojanGhafurian
28 Aug 2022
Looking forward to giving a keynote talk at the @SCRITA_ROMAN workshop at @ieeeroman2022 tomorrow
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We are looking for Family Doctors and Nurse Practitioners in Canada to participate in a short interview about their preferences for use of smart home technologies for remote patient monitoring. See below to participate or learn more. uwaterloo.ca/social-intellig…

Study Recruitment | Social and Intelligent Robotics Research Laboratory | University of Waterloo

Research Study on Design and Use of Smart Home Devices for Remote Patient Monitoring

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#NewPublication: Our journal paper "A survey on the design and evolution of social robots — Past, present and future, Robotics and Autonomous Systems" got accepted in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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ICSR2022@icsr2022
21 Jul 2022
🥁We are glad to announce the first Keyspeaker of ICSR 2022: Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn ! We are looking forward to hearing her talk about "New Frontiers in Robot-assisted Therapy and Education". You can find a brief abstract 👉 icsr2022.it/keynotes/
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#NewPublication: "Opportunities for social robots in the stuttering clinic: A review and proposed scenarios" has been published in Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics. Read the article: degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Opportunities for social robots in the stuttering clinic: A review and proposed scenarios

The inclusion of technologies such as telepractice, and virtual reality in the field of communication disorders has transformed the approach to providing healthcare. This research article proposes...

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SCRITA@SCRITA_ROMAN
16 May 2022
We're very pleased to present you one of our exceptional invited speakers: @MoojanGhafurian from the @UWaterloo more info on our workshop -> scrita.herts.ac.uk 🤖
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Our paper "Social Transmission of Information through Virtual Robotic Agents" has been published in the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. scitepress.org/PublicationsD…
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