Simran Bhatia
@sim18ran
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UW Informatics 20 Grad. Interested in all XR, Data Science, Women in Tech, Accessibility, Research. 🐼🥑☔️
Seattle, WA
Joined August 2011
An interesting study about the potential of social teen-robot interactions in VR vs other embodiments. Read more here⬇️
Finally our robot embodiment paper is out! LOTS of teens shared their stressors with @RobotEMAR in #VR, on a computer, and physically present. Guess which embodiment they preferred for this activity? https://t.co/k2NkWGO0MQ
@ProjectEMAR @HonsonLing @jeffmatarrese @sim18ran
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Had a lot of fun & awkwardness navigating my first *virtual* poster presentation. Thanks @elinbjorling and @RobotEMAR for giving me this awesome opportunity 🤖
Go Team EMAR! @sim18ran is doing a wonderful job presenting our new mixed-methods #stress paper at #ICSR2020 ! This @ProjectEMAR paper is the result of a few long nights of analysis and hardworking students @HonsonLing
https://t.co/Jh1e70osc8
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Exploring WebXR technologies through teen-robot interactions with @RobotEMAR
Last summer we explored a virtual version of @robotemar with #teens. Participants designed their own virtual EMAR environments with researchers @sim18ran @TanyaBudhiraja1 @elinbjorling! Read more in our blog: https://t.co/ClyEz6Yz3y
#STEM #robotics #UW #stress #teenmentalhealth
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Great example of creativity during quarantine, loved collaborating on this project. Check it out!
Under quarantine, Project EMAR researchers @elinbjorling @p_alvesoliveira @mayacakmak explored teens designing their own at-home EMAR social robots. Visit our blog to read more! https://t.co/qyCfbcytYk
#STEM #robotics #covid #UW #teens #stress #teenmentalhealth #hcde
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This prevents the use of Oculus devices in classrooms and research labs.
Facebook is going to start requiring a Facebook account in order to use their VR headsets. They're sunsetting separate Oculus accounts in 2023, & new users will have to use their Facebook account starting in October 2020. New privacy policy coming in Oct. https://t.co/OuyiPO2LHO
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There is a misconception that famous researchers in ML are innately brilliant. Most well known researchers I meet are not. They are smart. But the dominant traits are perseverance and sense of research agenda. They pursue interesting questions and are willing to fail doing so.
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Talking about robot creepiness with #teens for @ProjectEMAR - Regarding a security robot, an 18 year old, female teen shared, “Human police are making mistakes all the time, I might be more comfortable being confronted by a robot police person.”
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Today @sim18ran and I talked with #teens about what technologies are creepy and why for @ProjectEMAR creepiness study. I am always amazed at what teens have to say and how they think. Today is no exception.
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Any #teens (13-18) out there looking for something fun to do? @ProjectEMAR team is looking for teen collaborators to help us better understand what makes a social #robot creepy. Join our online project!
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We're looking for a few teens (ages 13-18) to participate in 3-week creepiness study starting the last week of July. Meet with us remotely online once a week for an hour and help us understand what...
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7/9 This is the heart of Simpson's paradox. If you pool data without regard to the underlying causality, you'll get erroneous results.
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Thank you @elinbjorling and @ProjectEMAR for the beautiful robot themed mask 🙌 this is going to make outdoors a lil more robot-y
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THANK YOU! Kudos to you for supporting me through this journey @minahimitari
so excited to celebrate @sim18ran at #iSchoolCapstone tonight!!! what a kickass poster describing her two year long project that revealed some great information about the role of women's affinity groups in inclusion! 👏
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