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Minja Axelsson, PhD
@minjaaxelsson.bsky.social
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Postdoc research & Teaching Fellow @ Uni of Cambridge: Human-Robot and Human-AI Interaction, (Co-)Design, Wellbeing Technology, AI & Robot Ethics

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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!
A woman with red hair and a rainbow striped shirt stands in front of a poster at a scientific conference. The poster title is "Who Owns the Robot?: Four Ethical and Socio-technical Questions about Wellbeing Robots in the Real World through Community Engagement". A screenshot of the presented paper on the AAAI website, showing the authors: Minja Axelsson, Jiaee Cheong, Rune Nyrup, and Hatice Gunes.
October 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
minjaaxelsson.bsky.social
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!
A woman with red hair and glasses (me) speaking past the camera in a room that is lit with a blue light. She is an expert being interviewed for the program. The image has the text: "Click" and her name and occupation: "Minja Axelsson - Researcher in Human Robot Interaction - Cambridge University". A white plastic robot in a dimly lit room. It has a head, arms, and a torso visible. It has a screen face which is smiling and looking towards a person in front of it. It has a small microphone taped to its chest. The host of the program (Spencer Kelly) talking to the white plastic robot visible in the previous picture.
March 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
minjaaxelsson.bsky.social
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
A woman with red hair and pink boots (me) receiving an award from two men. There are two more people. They are all standing on a stage and smiling. A woman with red hair and pink boots (me) presenting on a stage with a microphone. In the background is a slide with the question: Can robots help us feel better?
March 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Inspiring talk by @shannonvallor.bsky.social at @darwincollegecam.bsky.social today about de-coding humanity, and challenging framings of code. #AIethics
A woman standing at a podium giving a talk to an audience, with a slide reading “Could we use some philosophical therapy?”
March 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
minjaaxelsson.bsky.social
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
The first slide of a presentation, with the title "Robotic Mental Well-being Coaches: Design and Ethical Recommendations". The authors are Minja Axelsson, Micol Spitale, and Hatice Gunes.
March 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
minjaaxelsson.bsky.social
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
A red-haired not-at-all-tired-looking woman sitting on the floor. She has a human-shaped robot and two screens in front of her.
March 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
minjaaxelsson.bsky.social
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
A red-haired woman with glasses tapping a small white robot on the head. The robot is placed on a table in a home environment in front of the woman who is sitting on a chair. The robot's head is tilted upward toward the woman, who is looking at the robot.
November 28, 2024 at 7:16 PM