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SUMMARY:Scaling Human Supervision and Understanding Social Contexts: Two K
 ey Challenges for Robot Learning in HRI - Marynel Vázquez\, Yale Universi
 ty
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CONTACT:Hatice Gunes
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will describe two key challenges that I belie
 ve are important to advance robot learning in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI
 ). The first challenge is about data scarcity in comparison to other relat
 ed fields\, like robot manipulation\, computer vision or natural language 
 processing. How can we increase human supervision in HRI? The second chall
 enge is about understanding social contexts in HRI.  What exactly do we me
 an by context? How do we model it computationally? While we don’t have a
 ll the answers to these questions yet\, my talk will describe promising di
 rections that we believe can help with both challenges. This includes thin
 king about context in terms of social situations\, organizing context data
  into graph abstractions\, and scaling supervision through interactive onl
 ine surveys\, in-the-wild robot deployments\, and by leveraging nonverbal 
 human communicative signals — a type of implicit human feedback.\n\nSpea
 ker Bio: \nMarynel Vázquez is an Assistant Professor in Yale’s Computer
  Science Department\, where she leads the Interactive Machines Group. Her 
 research focuses on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)\, especially in multi-pa
 rty and group settings. Marynel is a recipient of the 2022 NSF CAREER Awar
 d and two Amazon Research Awards. Her work has been recognized with two be
 st paper awards and several other best paper nominations at RO-MAN\, IROS\
 , and HRI. Prior to Yale\, Marynel was a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Stan
 ford Vision & Learning Lab and obtained her M.S. and Ph.D. in Robotics fro
 m Carnegie Mellon University\, where she was a collaborator of Disney Rese
 arch. Before then\, she received her bachelor's degree in Computer Enginee
 ring from Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas\, Venezuela.\n\n\n
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