Luca M. Leisten

We replicate and extent previous findings, showing that people perceive soft robots as less competent and human-like, but more physically warm.

These differences also drive the perceived suitability of these robots for different educational contexts, tasks, and learners 👩🏼‍🏫📚

#phdlife #phdvoice

New preprint is out of @escross.bsky.social, Nathan Caruana's and my work on teacher's perceptions of soft and hard social robots in education contexts!🤖

Give it a read here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Today, my master student Marine Bruttin and I took our handmade Blossom robots to schools to discuss #ethicalAI, #socialEquity, and #sustainability of social robots 🤖 Children were intrigued, but there's A LOT of potential to raise awareness about these crucial topics ⚠️ More to follow soon 👀

#hri

(2) It's been so much fun to combine our expertise in building #robots and thinking about how we can introduce #SoftRobots to #education contexts!📚👧🏽

If you want to learn more about this cool project, come join our talk at RoboSoft in late April! 👀

(1) Excited to share that Manuel Bernal Lecina and I will be at the IEEE #RoboSoft conference this year with an extended abstract, pitching the idea of a new soft module for the Sthymuli robot 🤖

#HRI #phdlife #phdvoice #momademia

Yes, same here!! I'm also so glad I've finally made the jump but so far neither linked in nor bluesky can live up to what we had on Twitter 🥲

Update: I should have also exploited my baby for my HRI submission. Didn't get in again 🥲

No Australia for us this year, but maybe Iceland?👀 #IDC2025

#phdlife #momademia #phdchat #phdvoice #AcademicBluesky #HRI

Travel grant (IDEA) deadline coming up for my #HRIconference submission and it's save to say that my baby will support me in style 👀🤖

#hri #AcademicTwitter #phdvoice #momademia

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Lots of new #HRI followers recently! 🤖 No idea how (JK, probably my bio tag), but this is actually starting to work 👀🌟

Uff same here! Fingers crossed for both of us that this will change again 🥴🤞🏻

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After finally leaving Twitter I'm super excited to see that in the meantime more and more people joined Bluesky! 🌟 Still absolutely no idea how to properly use this platform, but I guess we'll get there 🤞🏻

#phdlife #phdchat #phdvoice #AcademicChatter #academicBluesky

I love the idea that $1/year might be that threshold. Paying for a lifetime subscription to Twitter would be cheaper than one round in the pub and still not worth it.

I haven't figured out threads on here:

We made a thing! Learn R through PSYCH! Psychological Statistics You Can Handle - a 21 part Module to teach R. It's interactive, uses real open psych data, and is free.

install.packages("swirl")
library(swirl)
install_course_github("krcarriere", "PSYCH")

Leaving Zurich for the Symposium on Embracing diversity and social justice in social robotics happening at TU Eindhoven tomorrow! Very excited for the talks and discussions including keynote speakers @tomwilliams.phd and Friederike Eyssel! 🤖 #HRI #AI&HCI

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🚨 Science Resources for BlueSky 🚨

Scientist? Just joined BlueSky? Here’s four resources you might find useful.

#AcademicSky 🧪 🧵

(1) A list of over 130 subject-specific feeds. Find posts by others in your area and use the right tags in your posts to get them seen.

Uff okay that sounds complex! I thought there's just going to be some button to create one 😂 good tip!

Great guest lecture today by the one and only Nate Caruana on robot companions for learning! So much potential and yet still so many gaps and flaws in the current research 🤖🧑🏼📚 #readbots #hri #Academicsky #psychscisky #AI&HCI

@ruudhortensius.bsky.social so far I didn't come across an HRI feed, did you? If there isn't one yet should we create one? Not even sure how that works 🤔

Awwww you're too kind! 🤩🧡🤖 Thought it was time to move. Happy to be here and be so warmly welcomed by an ERC GRANT WINNER! 👀💥 Let's make this space cool and full of #HRI!

Had a super impressive natural language interaction with an Einstein avatar at ETH Zurich today! Great reaction time and fluent conversation! #phdlife #academicsky #HCI #psysky

Same for me! 🙁

On Bluesky, hashtags work only when connected to a feed. So I made feeds for #CogSci and #DevSci! You can join them with the links below. Please repost, so we can rebuild a nice community over here!

#CogSci:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
#DevSci:
bsky.app/profile/did:...

And don't forget to pin them :)

I took the leap to Bluesky and am trying to put together my network from scratch. Lets see how this goes! I'm a PhD student, interested in human-robot interaction, social cognition and learning sciences at ETHZ and EPFL. Let's connect!
#HiSciSky #HRI #AcademicSky #EduSky #PhDSky #HCI #BehSciSky