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ICMI
2010
Springer
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13 years 3 months ago
Focusing computational visual attention in multi-modal human-robot interaction
Identifying verbally and non-verbally referred-to objects is an important aspect of human-robot interaction. Most importantly, it is essential to achieve a joint focus of attentio...
Boris Schauerte, Gernot A. Fink
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 days ago
How to approach humans?: strategies for social robots to initiate interaction
This paper proposes a model of approach behavior with which a robot can initiate conversation with people who are walking. We developed the model by learning from the failures in ...
Satoru Satake, Takayuki Kanda, Dylan F. Glas, Mich...
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Transparent active learning for robots
—This research aims to enable robots to learn from human teachers. Motivated by human social learning, we believe that a transparent learning process can help guide the human tea...
Crystal Chao, Maya Cakmak, Andrea Lockerd Thomaz
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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13 years 12 months ago
Generating Robot/Agent backchannels during a storytelling experiment
Abstract— This work presents the development of a realtime framework for the research of Multimodal Feedback of Robots/Talking Agents in the context of Human Robot Interaction (H...
Sames Al Moubayed, Malek Baklouti, Mohamed Chetoua...
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
The More the Merrier: Multi-Party Negotiation with Virtual Humans
The goal of the Virtual Humans Project at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies is to enrich virtual training environments with virtual hum...
Patrick G. Kenny, Arno Hartholt, Jonathan Gratch, ...