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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
The Active Self symposium was a blast ! Thank you to the organisers for putting together such an interesting program and people 😎🙏
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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
Next up Verena Hafner on Embodied AI Approach to Measures of the Self 😎
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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
The #DFG #SPP The Active Self summer school is about to start with an exciting programme! #activeself activeself.de/2024-summer-sc… @dfg_public

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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
5 days to go!
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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
I've been working in multimodal AI for human-robot interaction research field for 15 years, specializing in emotion and expressivity. The @OpenAI demo was freaking impressive. Some thoughts. 🧵
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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
New publication AND robot video! youtube.com/watch?v=I4dYeo98… Paper doi.org/10.1145/3610978.3640… Effects of Transparency in Humanoid Robots - A Pilot Study by H. Mellmann who's presenting @ #HRI2024, P. Arbuzova D. Kontogiogos, M. Yordanova J.X. Haensel & V. Hafner funder: @AXAResearchFund
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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
New paper! Effects of Transparency in Humanoid Robots - A Pilot Study #HRI2024 @HRI_Conference dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36109… with @j2bryson @polinaarb @dimkontogiorgos @vvh @rambatakabum M. Yordanova, J. Haensel support: @scioi_cluster @MetaTool_EU @AXAResearchFund @HumboldtUni
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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
Learning from conspecifics: #chimpanzees may use social learning to acquire new skills. New study in @NatureHumBehav by @ejcvanleeuwen, @sewaseyrai, Daniel Haun & Josep Call. @MPI_EVA_Leipzig @UniUtrecht @univofstandrews See: tinyurl.com/4dh4epzk & ⬇️ nature.com/articles/s41562-0…

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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
Open #PostDoc position in Developmental #Robotics / #Computational Modeling / #ML / #VR in the #SCIoI @scioi_cluster project "Observational learning in children and artificial agents" in the Adaptive Systems Group at @HumboldtUni #Berlin!
💼WE ARE HIRING! 💼 A #postdoc position in "Observational learning in children and artificial agents" is now open at our cluster of excellence @scioi_cluster 🤖 Apply now (deadline 6 March)! Check it out 👉 scienceofintelligence.de/cal…
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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
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1/ The Worth of Wild Ideas (and The Right To Be Wrong). My take on the ‘IIT as pseudoscience’ letter, and some of the wider issues involved, out now in @NautilusMag nautil.us/the-worth-of-wild-…
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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
LIVE UPDATE! Our panel discussion at the @scioi_cluster Science of Intelligence Fair 2023 is on right now. John-Dylan Haynes, @GeorgiaChal, Verena Hafner, and Jens Krause talk with moderator Marianna Evenstein about Advancements in Safe AI Technology.
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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
The baseball-sized stones found at a site in Israel where early humans lived 1.4 million years ago were intentionally knapped into spheres – although we still don’t know why newscientist.com/article/239…
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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
We're organizing #RoboVillage at the Chaos Communication Camp 2023 again. Please come round and check out our robots or bring your own and join our village! #cccamp23 #robots events.ccc.de/camp/2023/info…

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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
Interested in #biohybrid systems and #complexity science? Participate in our summer school in Graz, apply now! ‼️NEW deadline for applications: 14 July 2023‼️ @EU_H2020 @hiveopolis @robocoenosis @WatchplantP #complexity @UniGraz @ArqusAlliance
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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften #LNDW23 - Full House bei unseren Robotern! @naoteamhumboldt
Unsere Highlights der #LNdW 2023 an der HU in 55 Sekunden. Wir sagen herzlichen Dank für Ihren Besuch, für’s Mitmachen und für's Organisieren! @Technologiepark @IRISAdlershof @radio_eins @LNDWBerlin @HumboldtLabor
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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
IEEE ICDL (International Conference on Development and Learning) @IEEE_ICDL will take place in Macau this year! Extended deadline: June 30, 2023 🤖icdl-2023.org

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15 years on twitter 🦜 #MyTwitterAnniversary
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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
Heute Abend ist es soweit! 🤗🏆🍾 Die Alexander von Humboldt-Professur, Deutschlands höchstdotierter Forschungspreis, wird in Berlin an 12 Spitzenwissenschaftler*innen verliehen. #AvHProfessor @sabinedoering @BMBF_Bund 📺 Livestream ab 19 Uhr hier: humboldt-foundation.de/verle…
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Verena @vvh@chaos.social @vvh.bsky.social retweeted
We had an exciting @MetaTool_EU project meeting with inspiring scientific discussions and a hands-on tool creation workshop!
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