Activities
PhD Supervision
Discussion Group
Apply to join my Discord channel The Human-Robot Interaction Group (THRIG) and discuss all things HRI related
Editorials
Guest Editor in Dialogue and Discourse, Special Edition in Embodied Conversational Systems for Human-Robot
Interaction (Submissions Open until October 2023)
Reviews
I regularly review papers for journals and conferences in AI and robotics, for a full list of verified reviews visit my Web of Science page.
Organisations and Memberships
HRI 2023 (Student Design & LBR tracks)
SIGDIAL 2022, Special Session Co-organizer
ICFIT 2022 - Technical Program Committee
NAACL 2022 Program Committee
Association for Computational Linguistics Membership
Keynotes
Topic: Future Applications of Social Robots for Veteran Healthcare.
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Lectures, Talks and Workshops
Special Session - Natural Language in Human-Robot Interaction: NLIiHRI (2022) ACL
SIGDIAL (2022) Dublin, DialDoc Workshop, 'Commonsense Enhanced Dialogue Generation'.
BBC Science Podcast (2021) Machine Learning for Robotics Lip Synchronisation.
ALIFE (2020) The Multimodal Turing Test, Workshop Lifelike Computing Systems Workshop.
BBC Radio (2019) Advances in Medical Robotics and AI
BBC Radio (2019) Discussion on Emotion and Sensory Modalities in Robotics
Staffordshire University, Advertisement for the AI and Robotics Course (2019)
Staffordshire University, Promotional Video for Digital Design and Computing Research (2019)
Staffordshire University, Fundamentals of Animation Theory in Animatronics (2019)
Staffordshire University, Practical and Computational Approaches To Interactive Robotic Character Design (2019)
Staffordshire University, Future of Artificial Intelligence in Social Robots, North China Industry Institute (2019)
Staffordshire University, CDT Research Seminar, Development of 3D Sculpted, Hyper-Realistic Biomimetic Eyes for Humanoid Robots (2018)
Huddersfield University, New Thoughts, and Concepts in Simulacra and Simulation (2016)
D&AD, Spitalfields, London, Actuality, and Artificiality (2014)
Awards
PhD Scholarship, Staffordshire University (2019)
SWARM, Japan, Best Paper Nomination (2018)
Masters Scholarship, Huddersfield University (2015)
Professor Sir Patrick Stewart Award for Academic Excellence, Huddersfield University (2014)
Professor Paul Wells Award, Huddersfield University (2014)
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