<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b>    </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">  Monday, October 19th at 11:10 am</font></font><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Where:</b>     </font></font><font color="#000000">Zoom Virtual Talk (</font><b><font color="#0000ff"><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mhE2QB-YTCe9aaoc2OFDQA" target="_blank">register in advance here</a></font></b><font color="#000000">)</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b>       </font></font>Anca Dragan, UC Berkeley</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"><b>Title:</b>        </span><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Getting Human-Robot Interaction Strategies to Emerge from First Principles</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract:</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"> One of the most exciting things for me in robotics is when robots find interesting strategies for how to interact with the world, like navigating closer to a wall to help localization, as solutions to the sequential decision-making problems they are faced with. I want robots to be able to do the same when interacting with people, and much of my work to date has been about formulating HRI problems and modeling/learning enough about people for that to happen. I'd like to use this talk as an opportunity to reflect on some of the things we've been able to accomplish so far -- cars figure out how to negotiate intersections and merges, robots figure out how to use their physical actions to probe for information, and they automatically become more conservative when they are wrong as a consequence of having the right uncertainty -- and on the road ahead.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Host:</b> <a href="mailto:mwalter@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Matthew Walter</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">For more information on the <span class="gmail-il"><i>colloquium</i></span> series or to subscribe to the mailing list, please see <a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" target="_blank">http://www.ttic.edu/<span class="gmail-il">colloquium</span>.php</a>    <br></font></div><div><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mary C. Marre</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Room 517</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">p:(773) 834-1757</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">f: (773) 357-6970</font></i></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 5:54 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div><div><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b>    </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">  Monday, October 19th at 11:10 am</font></font><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Where:</b>     </font></font><font color="#000000">Zoom Virtual Talk (</font><b><font color="#0000ff"><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mhE2QB-YTCe9aaoc2OFDQA" target="_blank">register in advance here</a></font></b><font color="#000000">)</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b>       </font></font>Anca Dragan, UC Berkeley</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"><b>Title:</b>        </span><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Getting Human-Robot Interaction Strategies to Emerge from First Principles</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract:</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"> One of the most exciting things for me in robotics is when robots find interesting strategies for how to interact with the world, like navigating closer to a wall to help localization, as solutions to the sequential decision-making problems they are faced with. I want robots to be able to do the same when interacting with people, and much of my work to date has been about formulating HRI problems and modeling/learning enough about people for that to happen. I'd like to use this talk as an opportunity to reflect on some of the things we've been able to accomplish so far -- cars figure out how to negotiate intersections and merges, robots figure out how to use their physical actions to probe for information, and they automatically become more conservative when they are wrong as a consequence of having the right uncertainty -- and on the road ahead.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Host:</b> <a href="mailto:mwalter@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Matthew Walter</a></font></div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">For more information on the colloquium series or to subscribe to the mailing list, please see <a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" target="_blank">http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php</a>    <br></font></div><div><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></div></div></div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mary C. Marre</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Room 517</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">p:(773) 834-1757</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">f: (773) 357-6970</font></i></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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