Minja Axelsson, PhD
@minjaaxelsson.bsky.social
Postdoc research & Teaching Fellow @ Uni of Cambridge: Human-Robot and Human-AI Interaction, (Co-)Design, Wellbeing Technology, AI & Robot Ethics
Prev.: MIT Media Lab, Aalto Uni, Co-founder & Artist @ Ekho Collective
https://minjaaxelsson.com
Suomi🇫🇮/FI
Prev.: MIT Media Lab, Aalto Uni, Co-founder & Artist @ Ekho Collective
https://minjaaxelsson.com
Suomi🇫🇮/FI
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The BBC Click episode featuring my PhD research is out! Thank you to @spenley.bsky.social! It was great to see Spencer doing a brief positive psychology session with QTRobot. This interactions shows how #robots could support our #wellbeing in the future.
I appreciate that the Beeb mic'ed QT up, ha!
I appreciate that the Beeb mic'ed QT up, ha!
Who owns the robot? Who do we empower when we interact with a robot? Our paper at #AIES 2025 conference interrogates these questions: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI... Wonderful to meet others from the #AIethics community!
October 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Who owns the robot? Who do we empower when we interact with a robot? Our paper at #AIES 2025 conference interrogates these questions: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI... Wonderful to meet others from the #AIethics community!
The BBC Click episode featuring my PhD research is out! Thank you to @spenley.bsky.social! It was great to see Spencer doing a brief positive psychology session with QTRobot. This interactions shows how #robots could support our #wellbeing in the future.
I appreciate that the Beeb mic'ed QT up, ha!
I appreciate that the Beeb mic'ed QT up, ha!
March 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The BBC Click episode featuring my PhD research is out! Thank you to @spenley.bsky.social! It was great to see Spencer doing a brief positive psychology session with QTRobot. This interactions shows how #robots could support our #wellbeing in the future.
I appreciate that the Beeb mic'ed QT up, ha!
I appreciate that the Beeb mic'ed QT up, ha!
It was amazing to be recognised as the winner of the 3MT Thesis Competition, on Friday at the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence Early Career Conference, at Uni of Cam!
My talk asked the question: Can robots help us feel better?
#robotics #wellbeing #HRI #HAI #science #tiedetaivas
My talk asked the question: Can robots help us feel better?
#robotics #wellbeing #HRI #HAI #science #tiedetaivas
March 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
It was amazing to be recognised as the winner of the 3MT Thesis Competition, on Friday at the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence Early Career Conference, at Uni of Cam!
My talk asked the question: Can robots help us feel better?
#robotics #wellbeing #HRI #HAI #science #tiedetaivas
My talk asked the question: Can robots help us feel better?
#robotics #wellbeing #HRI #HAI #science #tiedetaivas
Inspiring talk by @shannonvallor.bsky.social at @darwincollegecam.bsky.social today about de-coding humanity, and challenging framings of code. #AIethics
March 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Inspiring talk by @shannonvallor.bsky.social at @darwincollegecam.bsky.social today about de-coding humanity, and challenging framings of code. #AIethics
Suomen lähestymistavsta disinformaation torjumiseen - etenkin vaaleihin liittyen #tiedetaivas #demokratia
“Focus on the player, not the puck” - the Finnish approach to combatting electoral disinformation: ethanzuckerman.com/2025/03/13/f...
(Liveblog from Attention: Freedom, Interrupted in Montreal)
(Liveblog from Attention: Freedom, Interrupted in Montreal)
Focus on the player, not the puck: Finnish approaches to combatting electoral interference - Ethan Zuckerman
How can nations fight off disinformation from foreign actors? It helps to spend a century worried about an invasion over your shared border.
ethanzuckerman.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Suomen lähestymistavsta disinformaation torjumiseen - etenkin vaaleihin liittyen #tiedetaivas #demokratia
Our work on design and ethical recommendations for robotic mental well-being coaches was presented by Prof. Gunes at #HRI2025, at the T-HRI invited talks session! Sad I couldn't be there in person, fingers crossed for the next HRI...
Check it out: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
#robotethics #AIethics
Check it out: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
#robotethics #AIethics
March 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Our work on design and ethical recommendations for robotic mental well-being coaches was presented by Prof. Gunes at #HRI2025, at the T-HRI invited talks session! Sad I couldn't be there in person, fingers crossed for the next HRI...
Check it out: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
#robotethics #AIethics
Check it out: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
#robotethics #AIethics
BBC Click came to the Computer Lab today to shoot our #robots for their 1000th and final episode! How exciting to be part of Click history and to represent the lab.
Pictured: some debugging prior to QT's big moment in the limelight.
#science #sciencecommunication #tiedetaivas
Pictured: some debugging prior to QT's big moment in the limelight.
#science #sciencecommunication #tiedetaivas
March 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
BBC Click came to the Computer Lab today to shoot our #robots for their 1000th and final episode! How exciting to be part of Click history and to represent the lab.
Pictured: some debugging prior to QT's big moment in the limelight.
#science #sciencecommunication #tiedetaivas
Pictured: some debugging prior to QT's big moment in the limelight.
#science #sciencecommunication #tiedetaivas
Reposted by Minja Axelsson, PhD
Check out the video I made for my latest RO-MAN paper, ft. the highest production quality i've ever put into presenting a slide deck 🙈
Who is a robot? A fundamental model of artificial identity
YouTube video by Lux Miranda
www.youtube.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Check out the video I made for my latest RO-MAN paper, ft. the highest production quality i've ever put into presenting a slide deck 🙈
Reposted by Minja Axelsson, PhD
I made an HRI Starter Pack!
If you are a Human-Robot Interaction or Social Robotics researcher and I missed you while scrolling through bsky's suggestions, just ping me and I'll add ya.
go.bsky.app/CsnNn3s
If you are a Human-Robot Interaction or Social Robotics researcher and I missed you while scrolling through bsky's suggestions, just ping me and I'll add ya.
go.bsky.app/CsnNn3s
December 3, 2024 at 6:37 PM
I made an HRI Starter Pack!
If you are a Human-Robot Interaction or Social Robotics researcher and I missed you while scrolling through bsky's suggestions, just ping me and I'll add ya.
go.bsky.app/CsnNn3s
If you are a Human-Robot Interaction or Social Robotics researcher and I missed you while scrolling through bsky's suggestions, just ping me and I'll add ya.
go.bsky.app/CsnNn3s
Reposted by Minja Axelsson, PhD
Maybe this is a niche area, but I'm curious who else is on here! Feel free to poke me to add you!
go.bsky.app/5KCtepm
go.bsky.app/5KCtepm
November 21, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Maybe this is a niche area, but I'm curious who else is on here! Feel free to poke me to add you!
go.bsky.app/5KCtepm
go.bsky.app/5KCtepm
Reposted by Minja Axelsson, PhD
Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
November 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
The creator of "Webcomic Name" (of "oh no" fame), Alex Norris, is asking for help for his legal fund. He is seeking to protect IP of his whole comic, which a company is claiming ownership over after an agreement to make a boardgame. www.gofundme.com/f/alexnorris...
Protecting artist IP is important.
Protecting artist IP is important.
Donate to Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics, organized by Alex Norris
I am Alex Norris, creator of the webcomic Webcomic Name. I am here to ask for he… Alex Norris needs your support for Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics
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November 30, 2024 at 12:54 AM
The creator of "Webcomic Name" (of "oh no" fame), Alex Norris, is asking for help for his legal fund. He is seeking to protect IP of his whole comic, which a company is claiming ownership over after an agreement to make a boardgame. www.gofundme.com/f/alexnorris...
Protecting artist IP is important.
Protecting artist IP is important.
Reposted by Minja Axelsson, PhD
Thank you Minja Axelsson for speaking with our lab today about her amazing work on robot wellbeing coaches!
May 22, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Thank you Minja Axelsson for speaking with our lab today about her amazing work on robot wellbeing coaches!
Hi! I'm Minja, soon to be defending PhD student (eek!) working on #socialrobotics, #hri (Human-Robot Interaction), and #design for well-being robots. Currently looking more into #ethics of HRI! Looking for fellow HRI people and people in adjacent fields to follow 🤖
Saatavilla myös suomeksi #tiede
Saatavilla myös suomeksi #tiede
November 28, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Hi! I'm Minja, soon to be defending PhD student (eek!) working on #socialrobotics, #hri (Human-Robot Interaction), and #design for well-being robots. Currently looking more into #ethics of HRI! Looking for fellow HRI people and people in adjacent fields to follow 🤖
Saatavilla myös suomeksi #tiede
Saatavilla myös suomeksi #tiede