Interaction Lab

Welcome to iLab Wrapped!!🎉🎉 It's the end of 2023, so let's take a dive into some of the Interaction Lab's papers. Please follow your favourite authors so you can keep up with their work beyond their time at @iLab_hwu (apologies if the thread updates slowly - @Addlesee_AI)

Happy to announce that @helloalana, our spin-out company from @iLab_hwu @HeriotWattUni, has started a new project with the NHS, using generative AI in healthcare #GenAI #NLProc

Looking to do PhD in AI? Our CDT program AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR) offers funding & a supportive research environment @iLab_hwu @NRobotarium @EDINrobotics #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #AIResearch #PhD Learn more & apply here: edinburgh-robotics.org/apply

It's an honour to be elected a Fellow of @ELLISforEurope in the Multimodal Learning Systems Program. Looking forward to contributing further to the thriving AI community in Europe @iLab_hwu @NRobotarium @EDINrobotics #GenAI #NLProc #HRI @HeriotWattUni ellis.eu/programs/multi…

Actually... make that 8 papers accepted 🤯at EMNLP 2024 from @iLab_hwu @HeriotWattUni @EDINrobotics : Voices in a Crowd: Searching for Clusters of Unique Perspectives (EMNLP 2024 main) by @NikVits @amitparekh_ @sinantie - congratulations! #EMNLP2024 arxiv.org/abs/2407.1425

If you are at SIGDIAL check out “Divide and Conquer: Rethinking Ambiguous Candidate Identification in Multimodal Dialogues with Pseudo-Labelling” by @hsbhathiya from @iLab_hwu #NLProc #SIGDIAL aclanthology.org/2024.sigdial-1…

What if your multimodal model succeeds when given nonsensical instructions? What if it even succeeds without being told explicitly what to do? Have we finally achieved AGI? We answer at least two of those questions w/ @NikVits @ale_suglia @sinantie (🧵for more)

🚀 Excited to share our latest paper: "Enhancing Continual Learning in Visual Question Answering with Modality-Aware Feature Distillation"! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2406.19297 (1/5)

Are you using LLMs for evaluating your model? You might want to read our paper where we present JUDGE-BENCH. See the thread below and the associated paper on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2406.18403 Fantastic collaboration effort with many @ELLISforEurope members!

It has been wonderful collaborating with my friends at @HeriotWattUni 's Interaction Lab (@iLab_hwu). Thanks! In January, I submitted my PhD thesis titled: "Incremental Multi-party Conversational AI for People with Dementia" Luckily, even the sun came out for graduation day ☀️

I’ll speak on cooperative conversational AI for more responsible gen AI and robotics, next week at the Paris Symposium on Robotics, AI, and Society @iLab_hwu @SpringH2020 @NRobotarium @EDINrobotics @HeriotWattUni #GenAI #NLProc hi-paris.fr/symposium-2024/

Nice video featuring some of our work at @iLab_hwu @SpringH2020 @NRobotarium @EDINrobotics @HeriotWattUni #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/i…

Apply now for our PhD positions in AI and robotics @EDINrobotics @iLab_hwu #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #AIResearch #PhD edinburgh-robotics.org/apply

Thrilled to get this paper out, a great collaboration with @UCL_VoCoLab, @Addlesee_AI and @verena_rieser on how self-bias and sense of agency over a voice is altered when that voice is used to represent oneself in a social interaction.

Have you ever wanted to chat with a robot? Now's your chance! 🤖Come along to @NRobotarium to get involved in a research project exploring human-robotic interaction. You can contact @nagunson to find out more or follow this link: bit.ly/4aL6L0u

Boosting spatial understanding in generative AI vision and language models - NAACL 2024 paper from @helloalana @iLab_hwu @GeorgePantazop3 @ale_suglia @arash_eshghi @NRobotarium @EDINrobotics #GenAI #NLProc

Excited to announce that "Lost in Space: Probing Fine-grained Spatial Understanding in Vision and Language Resamplers" was accepted at #NAACL2024. Work led by @GeorgePantazop3 with co-authors @oliverlemon @arash_eshghi @EDINrobotics @NRobotarium arxiv.org/abs/2404.13594

In the last year our PhD students @iLab_hwu achieved: finalists in Amazon Alexa Simbot challenge; Best Demo paper at EACL; papers at NAACL, HRI, NeurIPS, EMNLP, SIGDIAL, Interspeech … full list at sites.google.com/site/hwinterac…

Looking to do PhD in AI ? Our new CDT program in Dependable and Deployable AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR) offers funded PhDs & a supportive research environment @iLab_hwu @EDINrobotics @NRobotarium #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #PhD edinburgh-robotics.org/apply

Thanks to everyone who helped at our @EdSciFest event yesterday 'Two Truths and A Robot Lie', including scifest team, @NRobotarium, @HWEngage, and @AdamSmithHouse. The event was a big success engaging the public with the history of Adam Smith, and the science of #robots and #AI

It was great presenting my recent work on Embodied AI and multimodal language models. Many thanks for the invite @PMinervini and many thanks to everyone that attended both in-person and online!