Ah, the true working in a coffee shop experience: Christmas music on loop and a guy at the next table over convincing his table that the Kennedy assassination was an inside job
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Reuben Aronson, Ph. D.
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PhD . HRI, comanipulation, gaze, assistive tech, tech for people. He/him.
reuben-aronson.comJoined April 2015
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So uhh... anyone else around MC'08 or MIT'12 getting contacted by a bunch of reporters?
Hey Somervillains -- anyone know the road closures for the turkey trot in Davis on Thursday? Bc I think I live inside the route and I'd really like to see my family that day...
@rma@hci.social, let's see how this mastodon thing works 😎
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My "mastodon is working smoothly again" post has lots of people asking questions that are already answered by the post
(but seriously... Should I try it out?)
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#twitterstorians, if you’ve been thinking of giving Mastodon a shot but were scared off by things not working, it looks like the largest server, mastodon.social, has been upgraded and is running smoothly again.
Find the #histodons hashtag there and join us!
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We are hiring—open rank tenure track faculty joint with #philosophy and #computerscience for #ethics and #AI / #machinelearnig This is a fantastic opportunity, please share widely in your networks!! #AIEthics #ethicalAI
apply.interfolio.com/115072
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this lap ain't big enough for the both of us
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But this just scratches the surface of having robots or virtual agents detect, use, or project attention. Come share what you've done at the workshop!
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This joint attention can be used to predict people's likely choices to speed up task completion ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/docum or determine their goals for improved manipulation assistance roboticsproceedings.org/rss18/p025.pdf
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Beyond conversational settings, gaze can indicate joint attention -- an agent looks at an object when it is relevant to the task at hand to indicate its relevance to a collaborator.
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That is, if the robots are even identifiable as social agents; sometimes other cues are required for robotic attention to be percieved
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In conversation, people direct their gaze to engage in turn-taking and modulate intimacy -- and it turns out, so can robots
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Human attention is not just about internal brain function, it's also an essential way we communicate! Attention -- as gaze direction -- moderates conversations and conveys information for collaboration.
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Hi all! Our workshop on "All Things Attention" is accepting submissions up until Oct. 3! Here's a couple of teaser HRI ideas to get y'all thinking...
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The Submission Deadline has been extended to Oct 3, 2022 (11:59PM AoE) @NeurIPSConf Consider submitting your work to our workshop @attentioneurips See details here: attention-learning-workshop.github.io
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Finally time for a new laptop -- what's the best Linux these days, Mac or Windows? I want to run ROS with graphics acceleration, anyone have success with WSL or should I stick with vm/docker?
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We are pleased to introduce our 2022 Workshop on "All Things Attention: Bridging Different Perspectives on Attention" We invite you to participate and consider sending your work to #AllThingsAttention attention-learning-workshop.github.io 1/N
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"blink and you're dead"
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The year is 2045. The first astronauts have landed on Mars. They find a cave with a human skeleton. And 4 words are written on the wall.
What are the four words
Goodbye Pittsburgh, it's been great! Next stop: MA suburbs, then Somerville and Tufts!
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v proud that I actually donated two boxes of books this move
don't ask how many are left
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Me buying books: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me moving books: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
how do you have 20 multiple selection checkboxes with subheading for "race" and only 2 options for gender
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Anyone have recommendations for a light audiobook/podcast for packing? F/SF, (edited) live play D&D, similar. I need something distracting and easy to listen to.
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I will be at #RSS2022 next week presenting our ongoing work on learning recovery skills to deal with state uncertainty at the "Scaling Robot Learning" workshop. Let's get coffee.
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they should offer apple juice and cookies after tartan testing on hot days
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anyone have a moving company they like? going from Pgh to Boston area in July-ish.
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Really excited to read this!
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Preprint alert 
With ML’s growing reliance on crowdsourcing, in this paper, @zacharylipton, @AlexJohnLondon, and I seek to resolve the human subject status of ML’s crowdworkers. More in the thread
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With ML’s growing reliance on crowdsourcing, in this paper, @zacharylipton, @AlexJohnLondon, and I seek to resolve the human subject status of ML’s crowdworkers. More in the thread 1/15
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update: it really happened 😄👨⚕️
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RSS is a great community and I’m honored to get to share my research at this year’s conference!
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breaking news: Henny Admoni (CMU) and Jens Kober (TU Delft) have been selected as Early Career Spotlight keynote speakers at #RSS2022 !
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guess it's really happening, huh
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“Factors including cost, gender, career stage and geographic location were evaluated. Virtual conferences demonstrated a clearly discernable and, in some cases, orders of magnitude improvement across nearly all metrics.” Study on virtual conferences and access/equity:
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Conference demographics and footprint changed by virtual platforms nature.com/articles/s4189
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Love the ML projects like "We made a camera that can tell by your eyebrows whether or not you have ever thought negative thoughts about Ayatollah Khomeini; if you have it then downloads your address and sends it to the revolutionary guard. We hope it will decrease stigma". Bravo.
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Google Scholar is the last big holdout in academia against trans authors being able to change their names on papers. It’s super bad and drives trans folks out of academia. And I’ve learned some new things about why it stays this way: (1/)
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I'm just gonna write trite cliches and fix it after the defense when nobody will ever look at it
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How tf are you supposed to write a thesis acknowledgments section? I'm emotionally worn out, I don't have it in me to be thoughtful and heartfelt until after the process is over
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Ever wondered what robotics🤖 is?
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Learn more about RoboLaunch here: riss.ri.cmu.edu/robolaunch/
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#STEM #AI #research #Robotics
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at this point, it's how many mass shootings have you already been affected by. I'm at 3 at least.
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At this point in America, it's no longer a question of *if* you'll be impacted by a mass shooting.
It's just a question of exactly *when* and *how* you'll be impacted by a mass shooting.
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officially at the "this is all obvious and also underbaked time to throw it all out" stage of thesis writing which I hear means you're near done?
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