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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium: Social Robots for Health and Education
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DESCRIPTION:By: Patricia Alves-Oliveira - University of Washington\nIC Fac
 ulty candidate\n\nAbstract\nFace-to-face interventions are the current gol
 d standard in health and education. Yet\, these services are expensive\, f
 requently unavailable\, or could be enhanced with other modalities. This t
 alk addresses how social robots can serve as unique tools to solve import
 ant challenges in these critical domains. I will uncover the process of de
 signing\, creating\, and deploying social robots in real-world contexts\, 
 to be used as valuable sources of knowledge and assistance that empower pe
 ople to make decisions about their mental health\, social-emotional learni
 ng\, and creativity. By leveraging on methods from design research\, socia
 l sciences\, and engineering\, I will walk through different practices for
  human-centered robot design and development. The vision behind my work is
  to democratize health care and education by using social robots to break 
 barriers of access to these critical domains.  \n\nBio\nPatrícia Alves-
 Oliveira is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Human-Centered Roboti
 cs Lab with Prof. Maya Cakmak at the Computer Science and Engineering Depa
 rtment at the University of Washington. Patrícia received her Ph.D. in 20
 20 from ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and spent time at Cornell Uni
 versity as a Visiting Graduate Scholar. Her research focuses on empowering
  human health and education by leveraging the qualities of social robot te
 chnology. Her interdisciplinary work unifies the fields of robotics\, desi
 gn research\, and health sciences. She is the recipient of the Portuguese 
 Graduate Research Fellowship and the Open Hardware Ada Lovelace Award. She
  was selected for the EECS Berkeley Rising Stars\, the KTH Future Digilead
 ers\, and as an invited participant in the Dagstuhl Seminar. Her research 
 received two Best Paper Awards at the International Conference on Human-Ro
 bot Interaction\, and she has been a leader in the field of HRI for her ro
 les in conference organization and by co-founding Talking Robotics.\n\nMor
 e information
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