Talks

Automated Planning for Task-Based Action and Human-Robot Interaction
Invited talk at Roskilde University, Denmark
2023-08-30

Start Making Sense! Using Cognitive, Social, and Affective Information for Interaction and Explainable Planning
Invited talk at the International Workshop on Human-Aware and Explainable Planning (HAXP 2023) in Prague, Czech Republic
2023-07-10

Task-Based Action and Interaction Planning for Robotics Applications
Invited online talk for the WASP Robotics Cluster, Sweden
2022-05-17

Integrating Mission and Task Planning into an Industrial Robotics Domain
Invited online talk to the Robotics and Semantic Systems Group, Lund University, Sweden
2022-03-14

Start Making Sense! Cognitive and Affective Confidence Measures for Explanation Generation using Epistemic Planning
Invited online talk at the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub Node on Trust
2022-03-07

Remind Me Again, What was the Plan?
Invited online talk for the 2021 Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2021)
2021-08-02

Planning and Plan Execution for Human-Robot Interaction Tasks
Invited online lecture with Luca Iocchi (Sapienza University of Rome) at the ICAPS 2020 Online Summer School on Automated Planning and Scheduling
Slides | 2020-10-16

Using Epistemic Planning for Task-Based Human-Robot Interaction
Invited online talk for the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering (DIAG), Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
2020-04-16

Artificial Intelligence: Should we really be worried about the AI Takeover?
Invited talk for the Science & Religion Seminar, New College, University of Edinburgh, UK
2020-01-13

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Technology, Trends, and Takeover? (aka, The Science of AI and the "Robot Apocalypse" Question)
Opening keynote at the Science and Religion Forum Conference (SRF 2019) - AI and Robotics: the Science, Opportunities, and Challenges, St John's College, Durham University, Durham, UK
2019-04-11

Epistemic Planning for Task-Based Action and Human-Robot Interaction
Invited talk at the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
2019-04-16

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Technology, Trends, and Takeover?
Invited talk at Science in an Age of Change, St Columba's by the Castle, Edinburgh, UK
2019-03-30

Artificial Intelligence: Technology, Trends, and Takeover
Invited talk presented to the Science and Religion MSc programme, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK
2018-10-08

Epistemic Planning for Task-Based Human-Robot Interaction
Invited talk presented at the RSE-China Robotics and AI Workshop, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
2018-09-18

Epistemic Planning for Task-Based Human-Robot Interaction
Invited talk presented at the Oberseminar 2018, Gaeta, Italy
2018-05-26

Knowledge-Level Planning for Robot Action, Interaction, and Cooperation
Guest lecture given at Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
2018-04-10

Artificial Intelligence: Are You Ready for the AI Takeover?
Invited talk presented to the Science and Religion MSc programme, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK
2018-02-05

Epistemic Planning for Goal-Driven Human-Robot Interaction
Invited talk presented at the SICSA AI and Cyber-Physical Systems Workshop on the Social Impact of Intelligent Robots, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
2017-12-15

The JAMES Robot Bartender: Design and Operation
Guest lecture given as part of the course Case Studies in Design Informatics 1 at the University of Edinburgh, UK
2017-11-27

Is Symbolic AI Still Relevant? A View from the Automated Planning Trenches
Invited talk at the 2nd DTU Compute Workshop on Current Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017-11-17

Epistemic Planning for Task-Based Human-Robot Interaction
Invited talk at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, Bristol, UK
2017-11-01

Automated Planning in STAMINA
A project showcase talk presented at the workshop on Towards Fully Autonomous Robots: Challenges for AI Planning in Robotics at the European Robotics Forum (ERF 2017), Edinburgh, UK
2017-03-22

Artificial Intelligence: Are you ready for the robot apocalypse?
Invited talk presented to the Science and Religion MSc programme, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK
2017-02-06

Knowledge-Level Planning for Human-Robot Interaction
A position statement talk presented at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Planning and Robotics (17031), Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Dagstuhl, Germany
Slides | 2017-01-16

Towards Interaction Management with Planning and Plan Recognition
A talk presented to the Knowledge Representation Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2016-07-26

From Knowledge-Level Planning to Knowledge-Based Programming
Invited talk at The Copenhagen Association for Dynamics, Interaction, Logic, Language, and Computation (CADILLAC) Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016-05-24

The JAMES Robot Bartender: Design and Operation
A guest lecture given as part of the course Case Studies in Design Informatics 1 at the University of Edinburgh, UK
Slides | 2015-10-08

I Know What You Want! Towards Planning with Multiagent Knowledge in PKS
A talk presented at the workshop To Be Announced! Synthesis of Epistemic Protocols, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands
2015-08-17

Knowledge-Level Planning for Task-Based Robot Action and Human-Robot Interaction
A talk presented at Sabancı University, İstanbul, Turkey
Slides | 2015-02-11

Knowledge-Level Planning for Task-Based Human-Robot Interaction
A talk presented at the IPAB Workshop, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK
Slides | 2015-01-29

Knowledge-Level Planning for Task-Oriented Social Interaction
A talk presented at the Workshop on Formalised Social Intelligence, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014-12-18

Knowledge-Level Planning for Task-Based Human-Robot Interaction
A talk presented to the Cognitive Robotics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2014-07-10

Knowledge-Level Planning for Task-Based Human-Robot Interaction
A talk presented at the College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
2014-06-20

What Would You Like to Drink? Knowledge-Level Planning for a Social Robot Bartender
A talk presented at the Workshop on Planning, Logic, and Social Intelligence, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Slides | 2014-04-04

Planning for Social Interaction in a Robot Bartender Domain
A talk presented at the School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Slides | 2013-12-13

Planning for Task-Based Social Interaction in the JAMES Bartender Domain
A talk presented at the ICSR 2013 workshop on Robots in Public Spaces: Towards Multi-Party, Short-Term, Dynamic Human-Robot Interaction, Bristol, UK
Slides | 2013-10-27

Human-Robot Interaction in JAMES
Two guest lectures given as part of the course Case Studies in Design Informatics 1 at the University of Edinburgh, UK
Slides - Part 1 | Slides - Part 2 | 2013-09-30 & 2013-10-03

Planning for Social Interaction in a Robot Bartender Domain
The ICAPS Best Paper Spotlight talk presented at the AAAI Conference on Artifical Intelligence (AAAI-13), Bellevue, Washington, USA
Slides | 2013-07-18

Knowledge-Level Planning with Incomplete Information
A talk presented at the ICSR 2011 tutorial on Joint Action for Social Robotics: How to Build a Robot that Works Together with Several Humans, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Slides | 2011-11-23

Planning for Social Interaction in Embodied Robot Systems
A talk presented at the Computational Linguistics Colloquium, Universität Potsdam, Germany
Slides | 2011-11-21

JAMES: Joint Action for Multimodal Embodied Social Systems
A talk presented to the Dialogue and Interaction Working Group (DIG), School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK
Slides | 2011-02-14

Planning for Natural Language: Instruction Giving, Robot Dialogue, and Social Interaction
A talk presented at the Department of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Slides | 2011-01-12

Planning and Reasoning for Robot Vision
A tutorial course presented at Aalborg University Copenhagen, Ballerup, Denmark,
Slides | 2010-09-17

Planning for Natural Language: Adventures in Instruction Giving and Robot Dialogue
A talk presented at the Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Slides | 2010-09-08

Planning for Natural Language: Experiments in Instruction Giving and Robot Dialogue
A talk presented to the Dialogue and Interaction Working Group (DIG), School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK
Slides | 2010-06-10

Representations for Classical and Knowledge-Level Planning
A tutorial presented at the CogX Spring School, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Slides | 2010-04-25

Adapting Knowledge-Level Planning for Natural Language Dialogue
A talk presented at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Slides | 2010-03-19

Dialogue as Planning with Knowledge and Sensing
A talk presented at the Workshop on Situated Understanding of Intention, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Slides | 2009-07-23

(Dialogue) Planning with Knowledge and Sensing
A talk presented at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany
Slides | 2009-03-05

A Knowledge-Level Approach to Dialogue Planning
A talk presented at the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS) Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh, UK
Slides | 2007-10-12

An Overview of the Linear Dynamic Event Calculus (LDEC) and STRIPS-style Planning
A short presentation I gave in Göttingen, Germany
Slides | 2006-11-23

Extending the Knowledge-Based Approach to Planning with Incomplete Information and Sensing
A talk presented at the Cognitive Robotics Group Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada
Slides | 2004-06-15