I was awarded the Community Service Award this year at ICMI'2019, and our 2009 paper on dialog in the open world was declared a Ten-Year Technical Impact Award Runner-up. It's been great being part of this community for the past ten years!

I gave a keynote presentation on Situated Interaction at SigDial'2019 in Stockholm.

We presented a demonstration of Platform for Situated Intelligence at HRI'2019.

Together with Sean Andrist, Maya Cakmak and Sid Shrinivasa, I am co-organizing the 2018 MSR-UW Summer Institute on Social Robotics this July.

Our demo paper on Platform for Situated Intelligence received the Best Demostration Award at ICMI'2017.

Our recent papers on scene shaping and on diagnosing failures in physically situated systems deployed in-the-wild were accepted for publication at the AAAI Fall Symposium and ICSR!

We introduced the Platform for Situated Intelligence project in the Integrative-AI session at the MSR Faculty Summit.

I gave an invited talk on physically situated language interaction at MSR Cambridge AI Summer School.

The special issue of AI Magazine on Turn taking and coordination in human-machine interaction that I have co-edited is now published. It's a fun and interesting collection of articles on the topic. A big thanks to the contributors and my co-editors!

Sean Andrist from University of Wisconsin-Madison has recently joined our group! Check out his great work on gaze and human robot interaction here. Looking forward to expanding our research in the HRI space!

I have started serving as a member of the steering board for ICMI, the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.

I gave an invited talk at the workshop on Designing Speech and Multimodal Interactions for Mobile, Wearable, and Pervasive Applications at CHI 2016 in San Jose.

I gave an invited talk on opportunities and challenges in situated dialog at ASRU 2015 in Scottsdale, AZ.

I am serving as Program Chair for ICMI'2015 to be held later this year, in November in Seattle. Paper submission deadline is May 15th.

I co-organized and attended the AAAI Spring Symposium on Turn-taking and Coordination in Human-Machine Interaction at Stanford University.

Zhou Yu started as an intern with Eric Horvitz and myself. Looking forward to a fun and productive fall!

Two papers, one on generating hesitations based on forecasting models and one on communicating about uncertainty in embodied agents were recently accepted for presentation at ICMI'2014.

We have deployed a 3rd Directions Robot, on the 4th floor in Building 99. Full coverage!

I am co-organizing the ICMI'14 workshop on Understanding and Modeling Multiparty, Multimodal Interactions.