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petitegeek.bsky.social
Computing Science prof in multimodal embodied AI, emotion, interaction at SFU in Vancouver 🇨🇦🇵🇭 Director of the Rosie Lab www.rosielab.ca Robotics nerd. Previously at SoftBank Robotics 🤖 FR/JP
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🎭 Most facial expression editors rely on fixed emotion categories, limiting realism and nuance. 🎙️ In this WiAIR episode, we speak with Dr. Angelica Lim @petitegeek.bsky.social‬ about “EmoStyle,” a method that enables fine-grained emotional edits using continuous parameters! (1/10)

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Speaking of modeling the variability in reactions -- new Multi-modal Multiple Appropriate Reaction in Social Dyads (MARS) challenge. Human-human dyadic interaction audio-visual-EEG clips of 23 speakers and 137 listeners. Audio, face, and EEG behaviours, 20 to 35min sites.google.com/view/react2025

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Dear ChatGPT, Am I the Asshole? While Reddit users might say yes, your favorite LLM probably won’t. We present Social Sycophancy: a new way to understand and measure sycophancy as how LLMs overly preserve users' self-image.

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

Excited to dig into this. In the first couple of pages it talks about features of real world interactions that are usually filtered out of text-based systems (e.g. pauses, huh?, um, uh). Thanks @mzmttks.bsky.social for the recommendation!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

This is fantastic work by @milesklee.bsky.social documenting the way ChatGPT can cause users’ mental health to deteriorate quickly into catastrophic delusions. This technology never should have been released to the public and that was obvious from day 1 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

submitted 38 days ago • 37 comments

Biological Psychiatry (2018) The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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New video! Can a gadget really detect your level of stress? When your heart pounds hard in your chest, what does it mean psychologically? It depends. Your everyday experience is constructed from interacting signals inside and outside you, an idea called "relational meaning." youtu.be/mpRoxR81lSU

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

In the wake of the Lapu Lapu tragedy here in Vancouver, I'm dedicating my sabbatical year to applying my AI background to pushing forward psychosis research. Some thoughts 👇

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Structure in conversation: Evidence for the vocabulary, semantics, and syntax of prosody www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

HRI in the wild panelist: "8 year old boys are the natural enemy of robots" 😂 @hri-conference.bsky.social

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Environments where robots can be helpful (forest fires, construction sites) are really loud. We'll need more ways to interact with robots other than verbal language. - Prof. Julie Adams @hri-conference.bsky.social

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

My PhD student Akhila's been doing some incredible cultural work in the last few years! Check out out latest work on cultural safety and hand gestures, showing most vision and/or language AI systems are very cross-culturally unsafe!

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

I'm excited to share my first registered report on social interactions in @journalautism.bsky.social! Our study explores how social motor synchrony – the natural mirroring of movements – impacts rapport between autistic, neurotypical, and mixed dyads. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Kick off meeting of the #EU #MSCA doctoral network #MscaSweet -- we are opening 15 fully funded PhD grants, open to the whole world, on the topic of social AI for service robot. DM me if you arw interested/want more info. Boost welcome!

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

🤖 Beep boop new platform detected! 🤖 We’ve officially joined Bluesky! 🎉 Follow our new account for the latest updates, announcements, and all things HRI. We’re excited to connect with you here and across our other platforms—help us spread the word by sharing and inviting others to follow! 🚀 #HRI2025

submitted 145 days ago • 2 comments

Clever study that explores the debate between those who claim that color categories are 'innate' and those who argue that they are dependent on language. It turns out that monkeys, unlike humans, do not have consensus color categories, suggesting cognitive mechanisms such as language are required.🧪🧠

submitted 146 days ago • 6 comments

New podcast episode where I use philosophy of empathy to explore the double empathy problem, considering where it applies and how it relates to neurodiversity. This is a new recording of my presentation I gave at Tilburg last month #autism #philmed #doubleempathyproblem

submitted 146 days ago • 2 comments

🚀 Ready for #BRNet7? 🚀 Join us in vibrant Utrecht to explore how the #brain represents the #body using #computational approaches! 🧠💡 🔗 Submit your abstract by March 1st! bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/genera... Don't miss out on shaping the future of body representation research! 🌍✨

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

Student was surprised to go from 50% on their midterm to 80% on the final. Said they used ChatGPT to quiz them before the final 🤔 Underrated use case is using LLMs to ask us good questions, to make us think, instead of "think" for us.

submitted 149 days ago • 1 comment