vicky charisi

Contribution to the Kick-off Workshop on Global Guidance for AI and Child Rights @UNICEF, 26-27 June, 2019, New York, USA

vcharisi — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 22:39:12 +0000

I couldn’t be more honoured. I have been invited by UNICEF to contribute to the Kick-off Workshop on Global Guidance for AI and Child Rights. UNICEF, in partnership with the IEEE Standards Association and in collaboration with the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society, the World Economic Forum and other organizations part of Generation AI, is therefore developing a policy guidance for AI and child rights aimed at governments, corporations and UN agencies. They are hosting a workshop with around 50 experts to lay down the roadmap for the policy project.

I am so happy to be among those people, to contribute to this event and to moderate the break-out session on Children and Robots.

https://ai4children.splashthat.com/

Invited talk on AI and Robotics in Education @European Council Finnish Presidency, July 2019, Helsinki, Finland

vcharisi — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 17:01:00 +0000

This is my first invited talk towards members of the Council of the European Union. Very honoured to have been invited by the Ministry of Education in Finland in the context of the Finnish Presidency of the European Council. I will be talking about AI and Robotics in Education and Culture and the work I am doing at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.

Invited workshop talk @Teatro alla Scala, STEMintheCity “Music and Social Robotics”, Milan, Italy

vcharisi — Thu, 09 May 2019 15:17:04 +0000

Thrilled to have been invited by the Municipality of Milan, Italy to give a workshop talk at Teatro alla Scala, in the context of the events of STEM in the City, Milan. My talk was in the intersection of Music-making and Social robots.

Keynote talk @ICDL-EpiRob2019 Workshop on Naturalistic Non-verbal and Affective Human-Robot Interaction, Oslo, Norway

vcharisi — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 21:19:08 +0000

Honoured to have been invited to give a keynote talk at the Workshop which is held in conjunction with my favourite conference on Developmental Robotics, IEEE International Conference for Learning and Development and Epigenetic Robotics. I will talk on Children’s interpersonal trust beliefs and trust development in child-robot interaction. This will be an exciting day being among top researchers who work at the intersection of developmental robotics, developmental psychology and neuroscience. Link for the workshop http://bit.ly/2UnHiCL

Invited talk on Child-Robot Interaction in Education @Université Côte d’Azur, LINE, Nice, France

vcharisi — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 09:21:36 +0000

This is an exciting Workshop on Creativity, Robotics and CreaMaker organized by prof. Margarida Romero at the Laboratoire d’Innovation et Numérique pour l’Education. I will give an invited talk on Child-Robot Interaction in Unstructured Settings. Looking forward to meeting some amazing people working on the intersection of educational robotics and creativity

Research visit @the Honda Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan

vcharisi — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 16:40:19 +0000

The first meeting of the International Consortium for Socially Intelligent Robotics has been held at the Honda Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan. 2 days full of presentations, constructive discussions and robot demos including the Asimo. My presentation’s title: “Modelling Sociality for Intelligent Machines”. Looking forward to the upcoming projects!

Winter School on Ethical and Societal impact of AI @HUMAINT, Seville, Spain

vcharisi — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 15:13:38 +0000

Super excited about the Winter School of the HUMAINT on the Ethical and Societal impact of AI organized by E. Gomez and V. Dignum and for my Project on Human-Robot Interaction. We focused on the “What” and “How” when embedding Human Values on our autonomous systems. Thanks to Luis Merino, Aurelie Clodic and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer for their scientific contributions and to my amazing HRI team!

Invited talk on Social Robotics and Children’s Learning @DG Education and Culture, European Commission @Brussels, Belgium

vcharisi — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 13:40:27 +0000

Honoured to have been invited to give a talk about Social Robotics and Children’s Learning at the Directorate General for Education and Culture of the European Commission. Thanks Deirdre Hodson for the invitation! Brussels, Belgium, 1 February, 2019. Looking forward to the next steps!

Designing for Children’s Rights supported by UNICEF @Talkoot2019, Copenhagen, Denmark

vcharisi — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:16:27 +0000

I am so much looking forward to an exciting meeting on Designing for Children’s Rights. How can we design our Robots by supporting and promoting Children’s Rights? People from industry, academia and governmental institutions are coming together to exchange ideas and develop further the D4CR guide. http://designingforchildrensrights.org/

Associate Paper Chair @ ACM SIGCHI IDC2019

vcharisi — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 23:39:14 +0000

Honoured to be invited to serve as an associate Paper Chair at the coolest conference of Interaction Design and Children (IDC2019), which is held in Boise, Idaso. Looking forward to exciting papers!