Building Personable Machines by Star Simpson [PWLConf 2019]

PWLConf 2019 Link: https://pwlconf.org/2019/star-simpson/
Slides / Captions: https://github.com/papers-we-love/pwlconf-info/tree/master/2019/star-simpson

Building Personable Machines
Star Simpson, Research Scientist at Galois, Inc.

References
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Matching In-Car Voice with Driver State: Impact on Attitude and Driving Performance by Ing-Marie Jonsson, Clifford Nass, Helen Harris, and Leila Takayama, 2005. (http://www.leilatakayama.org/downloads/Takayama.DriverEmotion_2005_prepress.pdf)

Biography
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Star Simpson is an engineer and an entrepreneur, who started out in the world of infusing personality one character at a time into robots & gadgets in the physical world as an undergrad researcher at the MIT Media Lab in Prof. Cynthia Breazeal’s Personal Robotics group. She also started an event series called PLIBMTTBHGATY, or “Programming Languages I Have Been Meaning To Try But Haven’t Gotten Around To Yet,” a light-hearted opportunity to engage with computers in a convivial setting.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/starsandrobots
Site: http://starsimpson.com

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