Esmé E Deprez and Caroline Chen from Bloomberg Businessweek visited the headquarters of Omics in India to interview its owner Srinubabu Gedela about his company. Omics is widely considered a predatory publisher that publishes papers without rigorous peer review. Confronted with the acceptance of my non-sensical paper he replied that “Bartneck’s paper slipped through because it was submitted so close to the conference’s deadline.” Yeah, right.
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Media Coverage on Fake Nuclear Physics Paper
The media has reported extensively on my little nuclear physics paper. Here is a short overview:
- Nonsense paper written by iOS autocomplete accepted for conference, The Guardian, 21 October 2016
- Nuclear Physics Conference Accepts Paper Written by iOS Autocomplete, Newsweek, 21 October 2016
- Nuclear physics paper written by iOS autocomplete, The Press, 22 October 2016
- Is he Siri-us? Professor writes entire nonsense paper using Apple autocomplete app only for it to ACCEPTED for an academic conference, Daily News, 24 October 2016
I have also completed and interview with Geoff Hutchison from ABC Radio Perth:
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Jesse Mulligan on Radio New Zealand:
Honorable Paper at CHI2010
Our paper entitled “Expressive robots in education – Varying the degree of social supportive behavior of a robotic tutor” received an honorable mentioning from SIGCHI at the CHI2010 conference. This means that our paper has been within the top 5 percent of all full papers. Here is the abstract:
Teaching is inherently a social interaction between teacher and student. Despite this knowledge, many educational tools, such as vocabulary training programs, still model the interaction in a tutoring scenario as unidirectional knowledge transfer rather than a social dialog. Therefore, ongoing research aims to develop virtual agents as more appropriate media in education. Virtual agents can induce the perception of a life-like social interaction partner that communicates through natural modalities such as speech, gestures and emotional expressions. This effect can be additionally enhanced with a physical robotic embodiment. This paper presents the development of social supportive behaviors for a robotic tutor to be used in a language learning application. The effect of these behaviors on the learning performance of students was evaluated. The results support that employing social supportive behavior increases learning efficiency of students.
Reference:
Saerbeck, M., & Bartneck, C. (2010). Expressive robots in education – Varying the degree of social supportive behavior of a robotic tutor. Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2010), Atlanta. | DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753567