[Access Lunch] Accessibility lunch talk by Kim Baraka (12-1p in NSH 1109)

[Cole Gleason]

Hi everyone!

A reminder that this is now in NSH 1109! Hope to see you there!

Cole

On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 5:09 PM Amy Pavel <apavel at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
>
> For accessibility lunch this week, Kim Baraka will speak about his work
> on expanding robot roles and capabilities in socially assistive domains
> with a focus on autism therapy.  Kim is a dual Ph.D. candidate in
> Robotics between CMU and the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. The
> full title and description of the talk is included below. As always, there
> will be lunch provided.
>
>
> Look forward to seeing you all there!
>
>
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> *Title*: Expanding the Assistive Capabilities of Robots by Leveraging
> Standardized Interactive Tools
>
> *Speaker: *Kim Baraka
>
> *Description*: 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.
>
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