<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone!<div><br></div><div>A reminder that this is now in NSH 1109! Hope to see you there!</div><div><br></div><div>Cole</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 5:09 PM Amy Pavel <<a href="mailto:apavel@cs.cmu.edu">apavel@cs.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">




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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></span><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">For accessibility </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">lunch</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> this
 week, </span></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Kim Baraka will speak about his work on </span></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">expanding </span></font><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">robot
 roles and </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">capabilities in socially assistive domains with a focus on autism therapy</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">. </span></span><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Kim
 is a dual Ph.D. candidate in Robotics between CMU and the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.
</span></font><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The full title and description of the talk is included below. As always, there will be lunch provided. </span></span></p>
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 Expanding the Assistive Capabilities of Robots by Leveraging Standardized Interactive Tools</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"></span><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Description</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">:
 In this talk, I will outline our efforts into expanding robots' capabilities and roles in socially assistive domains, with a focus on autism therapy. I will present two research directions related to social assistance. The first is concerned with having the
 robot automatically personalize its social behavior using decision-theoretic methods in order to accommodate for individual differences in autism severity. The second is concerned with developing a simulation platform for complementing the training of autism
 professionals, where the robot emulates a range of responses of autistic individuals in standardized interactions. Our work is expected to contribute to technological advances for a richer set of interactions with robots in assistive contexts.</span></p>
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