Monthly Archives: September 2021

 

We Robot 2021 Prizes

Congratulations to our Prize winners: Best Paper: Marc Canellas, Anti-Discrimination Law’s Cybernetic Black Hole — $1000 Ian R. Kerr Robotnik Memorial Award for an Emerging Scholar: Annie Brett, Robots in the Ocean — $500 plus travel support for the next We Robot Best poster: Maria P. Angel, Privacy’s Algorithmic Turn: An Intellectual History — $500 […]

 

#WeRobot Tenth Anniversary: Virtual but Still Vital

#WeRobot had a great Workshop day; now the heavy lifting begins. See the Program page for the next two days’ schedule and for links to all the papers, demos, and more. Our conference software allows a healthy back-channel discussion, and this was in full form yesterday–expect even more today.

 

#WeRobot Login Reminder

If you are using Whova for the first time, after you have registered for We Robot, create an account here. If you have a Whova account, and are already registered for We Robot, you can go straight to the WeRobot 2021 Whova login.

 

#WeRobot Features Workshops Today

Looking behind the curtain: What robots can (and cannot) do and how that influences the types of policies that can (and cannot) be written Bill Smart and Cindy Grimm will lead this workshop session at 11:00am on Thursday, September 23rd at #werobot. Machine learning is <gasp> just a glorified spreadsheet. Robots do not (and will […]

 

Daniella DiPaola Will Answer Questions on Skills from Students – Artifacts from a Robot Interaction Design Curriculum for Fifth Grade Students

Daniella DiPaola will lead two live Demo Q&A sessions on Skills from Students – Artifacts from a Robot Interaction Design Curriculum for Fifth Grade Students at #werobot. The first session will be held at 3:15pm on Friday, September 24th; the second session will be held at 11:00am on Saturday, September 25th. We suggest viewing the […]

 

Michelle Johnson Will Moderate the Health Robotics Panel

Michelle Johnson is the moderator for the Field Robotics panel at 4:30pm on Saturday, September 25th at #werobot. The panel will feature the following papers: Somebody That I Used to Know: The Risks of Personalizing Robots for Dementia Care by Alyssa Kubota, Maryam Pourebadi, Sharon Banh, Soyon Kim, and Laurel D. Riek Diverse Patient Perspectives on the Role […]

 

Meg Mitchell Will Lead Discussion on Understanding Consumer Contracts with Computational Language Models

Meg Mitchell will discuss Predicting Consumer Contracts at 1:30pm on Saturday, September 25th at #werobot. Meg Mitchell’s research primarily involves vision-language and grounded language generation, focusing on how to evolve artificial intelligence towards positive goals. This includes research on helping computers to communicate based on what they can process, as well as projects to create assistive […]

 

Madeleine Clare Elish Will Lead Discussion on the Political Implications of Autonomous Vehicles

Madeleine Clare Elish will discuss Autonomous Vehicle Fleets as Public Infrastructure at 11:30am on Saturday, September 25th at #werobot. Madeleine Clare Elish previously led the AI on the Ground Initiative at Data & Society, where she and her team investigated the promises and risks of integrating AI technologies into society. Through human-centered and ethnographic research, AI […]