Archive for March 2010

Posters

Over the years I designed posters for conferences, papers and projects. A selection of my designs is available below. I will try to keep the list up to date.

Comment Spam

Allowing visitors to your website to post comments is a great way to allow interaction between visitors. However, it is also used by spammers. The most recent strategy for comment spam is to make a generic positive comment and hope that this form of flattery will go by undetected. Here is an example: “This is [...]

Robot Drama

Today we had the privilege to see Hiroshi Ishiguro’s “Robot Drama” in the Yamamoto Nohgakudo in Osaka. This event was part of the HRI2010 conference. The play itself was amazing and the following discussion in the theater between Ishiguro, the actors and the audience was funny and insightful.

Research careers in academia and industrie

In this short presentation I give practical tips for making a career as a researcher in academia and industry. I present sobering facts about the structure of research organizations and highlight important strategies. I gave this presentation at the Young Researchers career panel at the HRI2010 conference in Osaka.

ROILA website started

We are happy to announce that the Robot Interaction Language (ROILA) website is now available at http://roila.org.