Update! We have been awarded the Best 'Theory and Methods' Paper Award for our formalization of the idea of `With-me-ness' in robotics. Fantastic!
The annual Human-Robot Interaction conference is coming soon: I'll be flying New Zealand to present our last year's work on attention and engagement tracking between humans and robots (nominated for the Best Paper award!).
Alexis is going to present the results of 3 rather long studies where we show that robots can indeed help children struggling with hand-writing.
I'm also really glad to co-organize with Paul Baxter the (co-located) 2nd Intl. Workshop on Cognitive Architectures for Social HRI.