Minja Axelsson, PhD
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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

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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!
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
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!
March 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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
March 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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
Suomen lähestymistavsta disinformaation torjumiseen - etenkin vaaleihin liittyen #tiedetaivas #demokratia
March 13, 2025 at 9:09 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
March 10, 2025 at 8:08 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
March 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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
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
December 3, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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
November 21, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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. 🧵
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...
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
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.
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
www.gofundme.com
November 30, 2024 at 12:54 AM
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
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
November 28, 2024 at 7:16 PM