The Human - Large Language Model Interaction workshop aims at bringing together researchers and industry experts across all disciplines in the fields of Human-Robot Interaction and Artificial Intelligence for an interactive and interdisciplinary discussion around the enormous opportunities and challenges that emerge from integrating Large Language Models in the interactive, conversational and reasoning abilities of robots.
The workshop aims to provide an important venue to encourage debate around issues concerning the deployment of Large Language Models empowered solutions for human-robot interaction. This will be an opportunity to share and discuss ideas, worries, strategies, insights and findings around the application of Large Language Models in interaction scenarios.
The workshop will take place on March 11, 2024 at Boulder, Colorado (USA) during the 19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2024)
Organizers
Daniel Hernández García is a postdoctoral research fellow at Heriot-Watt University and The National Robotarium. His current research focuses on developing socially aware robots with the capacity for cognitive interactions.
Marta Romeo is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (UK). Her current research, within the UKRI TAS Node on Trust, focuses on investigating how trust between humans and robots can be built, maintained, and recovered.
Christian Dondrup is an Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (UK). His current research focuses on planning and task execution for HRI, Natural Language Processing for HRI, and social robots in health care.
Nancie Gunson is a postdoctoral researcher at the Interaction Lab in Heriot-Watt University. Her research interests are in embodied conversational systems and their evaluation.
Angus Addlesee is a Research Associate at Heriot-Watt University. His research focuses on voice assistant accessibility, and embodied spoken dialogue systems in complex, multi-party environments.
Weronika Sieińska is a PhD student in Robotics and Autonomous Systems affiliated with Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh.
Oliver Lemon is Professor of AI, Academic Co-Lead of The National Robotarium, Director of the Interaction Lab, and co-founder of Alana AI.
Alessandro Suglia is an Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University and Head of Visual Dialogue at Alana AI. His research focuses on designing, developing and deploying large Multimodal and Embodied Foundation Models for different application domains ranging from healthcare to aerospace.
Matthew Aylett is a an Associate Professor at Heriot Watt Edinburgh and a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of CereProc. His work focuses on human/robot interaction and conversational interaction.