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DESCRIPTION:IEEE UK and Ireland – RAS Chapter\nEarly-Career Researcher Se
 minar\n\n[More information: Link](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NA-W9LC
 mSZO-EFsxqDDpOJ8Mw16ZglPB/view?usp=sharing)\n\nTalk: Multimodal Perception
  and Communication in Social Human-Robot Interaction\n\nSpeaker: Dr. Tuyen
  Nguyen\n\nNew Frontiers Fellow (Lecture)\nUniversity of Southampton\n\nTu
 yen Nguyen is a New Frontiers Fellow in AI at the School of Electronics an
 d Computer Science\, University of Southampton. He received his PhD degree
  in Information Science\, specialising in Robotics\, from the Japan Advanc
 ed Institute of Science and Technology. His research centres on Human-cent
 red AI\, Socially Assistive Robots\, and their applications to human–AI 
 and human–robot interaction. His work in this field has been recognised 
 with several research awards\, including the Honourable Mention Award at t
 he ICCV UDIVA Challenge 2021\, the Best Paper Award at the IEEE RO-MAN 202
 2\, the Prospective Research Award at the ICServ 2023\, and the Best Paper
  Award at the FETC 2025.\n\nAbstract:\nMultimodal interaction plays an ind
 ispensable role in human communication. In addition to speech\, people ten
 d to use a wide range of non-verbal channels\, including eye gaze\, body\,
  and facial gestures\, etc. to communicate their emotions and intentions t
 o their interacting partners. Such social signals encourage verbal message
 s of the communicator can be transmitted to other interlocutors in a facil
 e and transparent manner. Inspired by this\, in human–robot interaction\
 , multimodal communication is equally crucial\, enabling robots and AI age
 nts to interpret human input from multiple sensory channels and to reason 
 about appropriate responses through diverse communication modalities. This
  talk will introduce our recent efforts in integrating multimodal percepti
 on and communication capabilities into social robots across different huma
 n–robot interaction scenarios.\n\nAbout the Series:\nThis lecture is par
 t of the IEEE UK &amp; Ireland RAS Chapter Early-Career Researcher Seminar Ser
 ies\, which highlights promising young researchers in robotics and automat
 ion.\n\nOrganisers:\nIEEE UK &amp; Ireland RAS Chapter\n\nRegistration\nIEEE a
 nd non-IEEE Members are invited to register and participate.\n\nAgenda: \n
 Date: 3rd December 2025\nTime: 13:00 – 14:00 (London Time)\n\n-\n13:00 
 – 13:05 | Welcome &amp; Introduction – IEEE UK &amp; Ireland RAS Chapter\n\n-\
 n13:05 – 13:45 | Multimodal Perception and Communication in Social Human
 -Robot Interaction\nSpeaker: Dr. Tuyen Nguyen\, University of Southampton\
 n\n-\n13:45 – 14:00 | Live Q&amp;A Session with the Speaker and Closing Rema
 rks &amp; Upcoming Events\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/518041
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/518041
ORGANIZER:figueredo@ieee.org
SEQUENCE:18
SUMMARY:IEEE UK &amp; Ireland RAS Chapter – ECR Lecturer-Series –  Multimo
 dal Perception and Communication in Social Human-Robot Interaction\, Dr. T
 uyen Nguyen 
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 rmation Science\, specialising in Robotics\, from the Japan Advanced Insti
 tute of Science and Technology. His research centres on Human-centred AI\,
  Socially Assistive Robots\, and their applications to human&amp;ndash\;AI and
  human&amp;ndash\;robot interaction. His work in this field has been recognise
 d with several research awards\, including the Honourable Mention Award at
  the ICCV UDIVA Challenge 2021\, the Best Paper Award at the IEEE RO-MAN 2
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 uman communication. In addition to speech\, people tend to use a wide rang
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 \, etc. to communicate their emotions and intentions to their interacting 
 partners. Such social signals encourage verbal messages of the communicato
 r can be transmitted to other interlocutors in a facile and transparent ma
 nner. Inspired by this\, in human&amp;ndash\;robot interaction\, multimodal co
 mmunication is equally crucial\, enabling robots and AI agents to interpre
 t human input from multiple sensory channels and to reason about appropria
 te responses through diverse communication modalities. This talk will intr
 oduce our recent efforts in integrating multimodal perception and communic
 ation capabilities into social robots across different human&amp;ndash\;robot 
 interaction scenarios.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p data-start=&quot;2643&quot; data-end=&quot;2841&quot;&gt;&lt;
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