During conversations, speakers establish their and others’ participant roles (who participates in the conversation and in what capacity)—or “footing” as termed by Goffman...
—When a user is in close proximity to a robot, physical contact becomes a potentially valuable channel for communication. People often use direct physical contact to guide a pers...
Pointing gestures are a common and intuitive way to draw somebody’s attention to a certain object. While humans can easily interpret robot gestures, the perception of human beha...
Abstract—We describe a multimodal framework for interacting with an autonomous robotic forklift. A key element enabling effective interaction is a wireless, handheld tablet with ...
Andrew Correa, Matthew R. Walter, Luke Fletcher, J...
In this paper we describe a method to enable a robot to learn how a user gives commands and feedback to it by speech, prosody and touch. We propose a biologically inspired approac...