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AROBOTS
2010
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Exploiting social partners in robot learning
Social learning in robotics has largely focused on imitation learning. Here we take a broader view and are interested in the multifaceted ways that a social partner can influence t...
Maya Cakmak, Nicholas DePalma, Rosa I. Arriaga, An...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Learning from human teachers with Socially Guided Exploration
— We present a learning mechanism, Socially Guided Exploration, in which a robot learns new tasks through a combination of self-exploration and social interaction. The system’s...
Cynthia Breazeal, Andrea Lockerd Thomaz
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Learning about objects with human teachers
A general learning task for a robot in a new environment is to learn about objects and what actions/effects they afford. To approach this, we look at ways that a human partner c...
Andrea Lockerd Thomaz, Maya Cakmak
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Asymmetric Interpretations of Positive and Negative Human Feedback for a Social Learning Agent
— The ability for people to interact with robots and teach them new skills will be crucial to the successful application of robots in everyday human environments. In order to des...
Andrea Lockerd Thomaz, Cynthia Breazeal
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 1 months ago
Expressive robots in education: varying the degree of social supportive behavior of a robotic tutor
Teaching is inherently a social interaction between teacher and student. Despite this knowledge, many educational tools, such as vocabulary training programs, still model the inte...
Martin Saerbeck, Tom Schut, Christoph Bartneck, Ma...