Dr Pablo Arias-Sarah, a prior recipient of a Marie Curie Fellowship and now an academic within the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow, talked to our students about what to expect when applying for a fellowship. He covered various aspects of the process including the benefits of undertaking a fellowship, what ...
The Social AI CDT, in partnership with the Social AI Group, held the Second Workshop on Artificial Social Intelligence (Social AI), which took place on 20th September 2024 at the Advanced Research Centre (University of Glasgow). This workshop was a satellite event to the ACII and IVA conferences, which also took place in Glasgow. Social AI involves ...
The 2024 Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Conference was held in Glasgow from 16th to 19th September 2024. The conference was an international event for interdisciplinary research on the design, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) with a specific focus on the ability to socially interact. IVAs are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities ...
The 2024 Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) Conference was held in Glasgow from 15th to 18th September 2024. ACII is the premier international forum for research on affective and multimodal human-machine interaction and systems. The theme for the conference was Human and beyond, e.g., animals, virtual agents, and robots. The key note speakers were ...
At the 2024 Scottish Graduate School of Social Science Summer School, Professor Simone Stumpf again delivered her extremely popular 2023 session titled, “Responsible AI”. This session covered what AI technologies are, how they work, and how they are developed. Also covered were current research strands in responsible AI to make AI system fair, accountable, and ...
The 2024 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) Conference was held in Glasgow from 4th to 7th June 2024. ETRA brought together researchers and practitioners from across fields, all with the common goal of continuing to move eye tracking research forward. The key note speakers were Professor Joy Hirsch (Elizabeth Mears and ...
The 2024 European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) was held in Glasgow from 24th to 28th March 2024. This Conference primarily focused on the presentation of new research results in the broadly conceived area of Information Retrieval, providing an opportunity for both early career researchers and established researchers to present research papers reporting new, unpublished, ...
The Social AI CDT organised training on the synthesis of human behaviour, which took place from 21st to 22nd March 2024, and was delivered by four guest speakers, Anna Esposito, Emily O’Hara (Social AI CDT alumna), Antonio Origlia and Catherine Pelachaud. The training covered a wide number of topics, including the development of socially intelligent Embodied ...
