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A selection of workshops I gave keynotes or helped organise and other conference miscellania from 2023 onwards.
2023: First Workshop on Artificial Social Intelligence
Organised by The Social AI group and the Social AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.
I gave a keynot titled - “You Don’t Need to Speak, You Need to Listen: Robot Interaction and Human-Like Turn-Taking”
2023: Why is my Agent so Slow? Deploying Human-Like Conversational Turn-Taking
A workshop at HAI 2023
I was the lead organiser for this workshop but had some great help. The topic is close to my heart and it was a lot of fun.
2024: Voicecraft: Designing Task-specific Voice Assistant Personas
A workshop at CUI 2024
I gave a keynote titled - “Voice puppetry: exploring dramatic performance to develop speech synthesis”
2024: REACT - viRtual agEnts Against disCriminaTion
A Workshop at IVA 2024
I was asked to present work from the EPSRC Gender Bias project which I took over from Verena Rieser in 2023.
2024: Fluidity in Human-Agent Interaction
A workshop at HAI 2024
I gave a talk about robot interaction and human-like turn-taking.