If you can’t join the colloquium in person, you are welcomed to join the colloquium via Zoom.
Zoom link: https://cityu.zoom.us/j/95262744492

Meeting ID: 952 6274 4492
Passcode: 944790

The SCM Research Colloquium takes place approximately once a month for graduate students, faculty and professionals from creative media and other related disciplines to present their recent research topic/project. The colloquium offers a great opportunity for ideas exchange and intellectual conversations about one’s work. Each session will feature two speakers, a graduate student/guest speaker and a faculty member.

Each presentation is about 30 minutes, followed by 15 minutes open discussion. Seminar introduction and Q&A will be hosted by Prof. Richard Allen and/or Prof. PerMagnus Lindborg. No registration is needed and light refreshments are provided.

Seminar 2 
31 October 2023, 12:30 p.m – 2:30 p.m
Designing Non-verbal Behaviors for Robots

RAY LC: Human-machine-AI collaboration in new paradigms of technology-mediated performances

Recent virtualization of performance processes has led to a change in the performer’s paradigm from classical stage metaphors to distanced and online formats. This talk describes the HCI of technology-mediated performances both in gestural interactions between performers and machines, and in participatory environmental influences by the audience members. It describes social computing studies of interviews involving professional performers whose workflows adapted to new online methods, design and implementation of distanced performances and exhibition-performance paradigms, and analyses of what performer’s interactions in these new rich contexts reveal about performance workflows and how to design for them in future paradigms.

Links:
https://raylc.org/
https://recfro.github.io/

Chang Xiaoyu & Li Yanheng: Robotic arm’s strategies to overcome unexpected contingency in HRI

Non-humanoid and non-facial robots, such as robotic arms, are being increasingly used in various human social scenarios by the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) community. However, Robots may behave unexpectedly during task-based interaction. For example, the robots may unintendedly ignore people when it is implementing multi-tasks, or the robots may fail to finish the tasks by following the human partner’s instruction. Communication with human partners, when robots perform unexpectedly, is important to reduce the negative impact on people and to maintain further interaction. Non-verbal body movement has been the most common mechanism applied in robotic arms to mitigate these situations. To facilitate the design of the robotic movement, first, we need to understand what recovery strategies can be used by the robotic arm; second, design the robotic arm’s motion with movement design techniques like bodystorming and then evaluate candidate designs.

Links:
Li Yanheng, Lydia: https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/yanheng-li(12e39a21-8321-46c4-9e86-06addc033153).html
Chang Xiaoyu: https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/xiaoyu-chang(895f5d96-efbe-4c6b-86f3-259861400a7e)/publications.html

The following are the remaining colloquium of Semester A, 2023/24:

•    December 5th

- Zhang Ge, Dino: Wanghong Pastiche
- Royce Ng: The Master Algorithm Redux