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September 15, 2024

Location for Sunday (15 September 2024) sessions: Kelvin Suite, Glasgow Grosvenor Hotel, 1-9 Grosvenor Terrace, Glasgow G12 0TB. The registration desk will be at the hotel foyer. Registration will be open from 8am till 6pm.

9.00-9.15 Opening

Group 1: Affective Signal Processing and Mental Health

09.15-09.30 “Affect-sensitive system for social anxiety support” – Vesna Poprcova (Delft University of Technology)
09.30-09.45 “Enhancing explainability in affective signal processing with interpretable machine learning” – Xinyu Li (University of Glasgow)
09.45-10.00 “Hand-over-face gestures in human avatars” – Monica Duta (University of Glasgow)
10.00-10.15 “Towards context-aware sensing and personalized interventions for mental health” – Zhiyuan Wang (University of Virginia)
10.15-10.30 “Towards affective sensory substitution” – Costanza Cenerini (Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma)
10.30-11.00 Coffee break

Group 2: Human-Robot Interaction and Reinforcement Learning

11.00-11.15 “Safe reinforcement learning for collaborative robots in dynamic human environments” – Sundas Rafat Mulkana (University of Glasgow)
11.15-11.30 “Exploring the role of mutual trust in human-robot interactions” – Laura Triglia (Italian Institute of Technology)
11.30-11.45 “Gamification for personalized human-robot interaction in companion social robots” – Bahram Salamatravandi (University of Gothenburg)
11.45-12.00 “Improving anxiety management for adolescents using empathic social robots” – Keith Rebello (University of Waterloo)
12.00-12.15 “Closing the teacher-learner loop: the role of affective signals in interactive RL” – Bernhard Hilpert (Leiden University)
12.15-14.00 DC lunch with mentors

September 17, 2024

Location: Grosvenor Suite.

16.30-16.45  We will have 1-minute talks in the following order:

1 Affect-Sensitive System for Social Anxiety Support, Vesna Poprcova (Delft University of Technology)
2 Enhancing Explainability in Affective Signal Processing with Interpretable Machine Learning, Xinyu Li (University of Glasgow)
3 Hand-over-face gestures in human avatars, Monica Duta (University of Glasgow)
4 Towards Context-Aware Sensing and Personalized Interventions for Mental Health, Zhiyuan Wang (University of Virginia)
5 Towards affective sensory substitution, Costanza Cenerini (Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma)
6 Safe Reinforcement Learning for Collaborative Robots in Dynamic Human Environments, Sundas Rafat Mulkana (University of Glasgow)
7 Exploring the Role of Mutual Trust in Human-Robot Interactions, Laura Triglia (Italian Institute of Technology)
8 Gamification for Personalized Human-Robot Interaction in Companion Social Robots, Bahram Salamatravandi (University of Gothenburg)
9 Improving Anxiety Management for Adolescents using Empathic Social Robots, Keith Rebello (University of Waterloo)
10 Closing the teacher-learner loop: the role of affective signals in interactive RL, Bernhard Hilpert (Leiden University)