Dr. Angelica Lim
@petitegeek.bsky.social
Computing Science prof in multimodal embodied AI, emotion, interaction at SFU in Vancouver 🇨🇦🇵🇭 Director of the Rosie Lab www.rosielab.ca Robotics nerd. Previously at SoftBank Robotics 🤖 FR/JP
Hi! Would this be open to the public?
November 8, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Hi! Would this be open to the public?
Fascinating! There are so many parallels - seeing hidden messages directed at them, intrusive thoughts, increases in dopamine, reduced cognitive capacity (attention, memory) feelings of merging with another person...
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Fascinating! There are so many parallels - seeing hidden messages directed at them, intrusive thoughts, increases in dopamine, reduced cognitive capacity (attention, memory) feelings of merging with another person...
"My (female) participants take a positive stance. Women have historically navigated male-dominated constraints, acting compliant in exchange for a man's love. Now they can bypass complex power structures through relatively simple consumption, achieving similar emotional fulfillment".
November 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"My (female) participants take a positive stance. Women have historically navigated male-dominated constraints, acting compliant in exchange for a man's love. Now they can bypass complex power structures through relatively simple consumption, achieving similar emotional fulfillment".
They work as nurses, hospitality staff, nannies and cleaners. ...Income comes at a high personal cost. Mothers can miss out on entire childhoods...emotional toll of being separated for years.
www.cnn.com/interactive/...
www.cnn.com/interactive/...
The Philippines’ migrant workers, and the children left behind
Millions of Filipinos work abroad to support their families. Eight mothers and children share their stories of separation
www.cnn.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:59 AM
They work as nurses, hospitality staff, nannies and cleaners. ...Income comes at a high personal cost. Mothers can miss out on entire childhoods...emotional toll of being separated for years.
www.cnn.com/interactive/...
www.cnn.com/interactive/...
Thank you! We have an initial proposal online and a full paper in the works, but I'm thinking it would be good to go the Alexa Prize route (as your team has experience with) and make it happen as a challenge 😊
arxiv.org/abs/2507.10812
arxiv.org/abs/2507.10812
React to This (RTT): A Nonverbal Turing Test for Embodied AI
We propose an approach to test embodied AI agents for interaction awareness and believability, particularly in scenarios where humans push them to their limits. Turing introduced the Imitation Game as...
arxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Thank you! We have an initial proposal online and a full paper in the works, but I'm thinking it would be good to go the Alexa Prize route (as your team has experience with) and make it happen as a challenge 😊
arxiv.org/abs/2507.10812
arxiv.org/abs/2507.10812
And generally, I'm curious about how appetitive behaviour affects our mood.
October 20, 2025 at 4:29 AM
And generally, I'm curious about how appetitive behaviour affects our mood.
Relevant: "several psychiatric conditions are associated with disordered sleep/wake cycles, i.e. poorly organised behavioural rhythms." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23604476/
Cellular mechanisms of circadian pacemaking: beyond transcriptional loops - PubMed
Circadian clocks drive the daily rhythms in our physiology and behaviour that adapt us to the 24-h solar and social worlds. Because they impinge upon every facet of metabolism, their acute or chronic ...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 20, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Relevant: "several psychiatric conditions are associated with disordered sleep/wake cycles, i.e. poorly organised behavioural rhythms." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23604476/
What day are you here? Would love to meet up and talk shop. Can also show you around!
October 9, 2025 at 5:25 AM
What day are you here? Would love to meet up and talk shop. Can also show you around!
"the frame problem broadly refers to the difficulty of teaching a machine to make smart decisions based on relevant information without having it explicitly consider every irrelevant detail." Is De Sousa (et al)'s suggestion that emotions solve the frame problem not considered useful for AI?
September 22, 2025 at 7:07 AM
"the frame problem broadly refers to the difficulty of teaching a machine to make smart decisions based on relevant information without having it explicitly consider every irrelevant detail." Is De Sousa (et al)'s suggestion that emotions solve the frame problem not considered useful for AI?
Also, can we appreciate these animations of how cargos are transported across microtubules on an axon? 🤯 There are even different types of transports that perform obstacle avoidance youtu.be/y-uuk4Pr2i8
Kinesin protein walking on microtubule
YouTube video by em2134x
youtu.be
September 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Also, can we appreciate these animations of how cargos are transported across microtubules on an axon? 🤯 There are even different types of transports that perform obstacle avoidance youtu.be/y-uuk4Pr2i8
For example, last week was on vesicular trafficking and axonal transport. And now, this paper has now become mostly legible \o/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36252719/
Next week is on mitochondria. How is it useful to my research? Might not be, but it feels nice to start to see the bigger picture.
Next week is on mitochondria. How is it useful to my research? Might not be, but it feels nice to start to see the bigger picture.
Axonal transport deficits in neuropsychiatric disorders - PubMed
Axonal transport is a major cellular process that mediates bidirectional signaling between the soma and synapse, enabling both intracellular and intercellular communications. Cellular materials, such ...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
For example, last week was on vesicular trafficking and axonal transport. And now, this paper has now become mostly legible \o/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36252719/
Next week is on mitochondria. How is it useful to my research? Might not be, but it feels nice to start to see the bigger picture.
Next week is on mitochondria. How is it useful to my research? Might not be, but it feels nice to start to see the bigger picture.