Thank you @YoyoTYHou from @Cornell for speaking to the @MIRRORLab today as our first 2024 Summer Speaker! Yoyo shared with us fascinating work comparing the persuasive capacity of robots in different social roles, and on the central role that interpersonal power plays in HRI!

Congratulations to Dr. @TerranMott for successfully defending her PhD today!!! Absolutely brilliant work and perfectly presented. 🥳🥳🥳 Terran will continue working with us for the summer, and is on the job market for industry and post-doc positions in the NYC area.

At @TAHRIorg ? Come to Rafael Sousa Silva's poster, from 1045-1130!

Organizing our 3/14 robot comedy festival inspired me to finally put the @MIRRORLab's Art page live :) mirrorlab.mines.edu/high-gea… Over the past few years we've used activities like poetry, film, photography, and game design to reflect on ethical issues facing our field.

The @MIRRORLab is pumped for #HRI2024 @HRI_Conference! We'll be presenting 6 Full+alt.HRI papers, 7 workshop+TAHRI papers, 2 workshop invited talks, and 8 LBRs! All the above in chronological order here: docs.google.com/document/d/1…

Sean (Lixiao) was a MS student in the @MIRRORLab! We're so happy to see him thriving as a PhD student!

Minithread Megathread! Since HRI is in Boulder this year, I encouraged all @MIRRORLab students without full papers to submit LBRs on their work! We ended up having seven LBRs from our current MIRRORLab members. Let me say just a little about each! 🧵

People apply norms differently to humans and robots. What does that mean for robots that give advice? A @MIRRORLab team led by undergrads Alyssa Hanson and Nichole Starr explore in our new HRI paper with Bertram Malle! mirrorlab.mines.edu/publicat… 🧵

🚨 Curious what I've been up to for the last year? 🚨 My 2024 alt.HRI paper, "Understanding Roboticists’ Power through Matrix Guided Technology Power Analysis", is a teaser for the argument I make in my forthcoming book from @mitpress. mirrorlab.mines.edu/publicat… 🧵

How should robots gesture to things that can't currently be seen? A team of @coschoolofmines / @MIRRORLab undergraduate researchers led by Annie Huang, Aly Ranucci, and Adam Stogsdill (team AAA?) explore in their @HRI_Conference #HRI2024 paper (!) mirrorlab.mines.edu/publicat… 🧵

Congratulations to @MIRRORLab student @shaneromero for successfully defending her MS Thesis "Empowering Special Education Teachers: Exploring Challenges & Opportunities with Socially Assistive Robots"!

What motivates HRI researchers? And to what extent is HRI research guided by social justice oriented engineering practices? @MIRRORLab student Yifei (Rena) Zhu explores in her @HRI_Conference #HRI2024 paper "Robots for Social Justice (R4SJ)"! mirrorlab.mines.edu/publicat… 🧵

What politeness strategies should robots use when rejecting commands? @coschoolofmines / @MinesRobotics / @CSatMines / @MIRRORLab student @TerranMott explores in her #HRI2024 @HRI_Conference paper! mirrorlab.mines.edu/publicat… 🧵 1/

Trans and non-binary people have unique perspectives that can help guide Human-Robot Interaction research. Find out more in @MIRRORLab MS student Michael Stolp-Smith's @HRI_Conference #HRI2024 paper: mirrorlab.mines.edu/publicat… 🧵

Was thrilled to hear that this won a best paper award at @ieeeroman #ROMAN2023!!! Congratulations Hideki!!! Thank you to @AFOSRYIP @AFOSR for funding my parts of the paper! :)

Finally got some photos back from a @coschoolofmines photoshoot of the @MIRRORLab and one of our @furhatrobotics bots, and they're great! Big thanks to @TerranMott for talking about shapes with Furhat for so long, and to @Prof_PBR_ who didn't realize what she was getting into!

Submissions are officially open on PCS for @HRI_Conference 2024! 😱

Now out: a perspectives piece in @CACMmag from myself, @cmat, Kristiina Jokinen, @RajKorpan, @jamespusto, and @DrScaz! We discuss the most critical ethical concerns surrounding language capable robots: Issues of Identity, Persuasion, and Privacy dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36046…