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HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
From manipulation to communicative gesture
— Assisting humans in their daily lives requires robots to be proficient in manual tasks and effective in communicating states/intentions with human users. This paper advocates ...
Shichao Ou, Roderic A. Grupen
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Recognizing engagement in human-robot interaction
—Based on a study of the engagement process between humans, we have developed and implemented an initial computational model for recognizing engagement between a human and a huma...
Charles Rich, Brett Ponsleur, Aaron Holroyd, Canda...
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Mysterious machines
—Alan Turing proposed a test for the intelligence of machines in 1950 [1]. Despite great efforts, no computer has passed this test so far. Each year, chat bots compete for the Lo...
Billy Schonenberg, Christoph Bartneck
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 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
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Solving ambiguities with perspective taking
—Humans constantly generate and solve ambiguities while interacting with each other in their every day activities. Hence, having a robot that is able to solve ambiguous situation...
Raquel Ros, Emrah Akin Sisbot, Rachid Alami, Jasmi...
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Judging a bot by its cover: an experiment on expectation setting for personal robots
—Managing user expectations of personal robots becomes particularly challenging when the end-user just wants to know what the robot can do, and neither understands nor cares abou...
Steffi Paepcke, Leila Takayama
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Developing heuristics for assistive robotics
Katherine M. Tsui, Kareem Abu-Zahra, Renato Casipe...
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Robust spoken instruction understanding for HRI
—Natural human-robot interaction requires different and more robust models of language understanding (NLU) than non-embodied NLU systems. In particular, architectures are require...
Rehj Cantrell, Matthias Scheutz, Paul W. Schermerh...
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A study of a retro-projected robotic face and its effectiveness for gaze reading by humans
—Reading gaze direction is important in human-robot interactions as it supports, among others, joint attention and non-linguistic interaction. While most previous work focuses on...
Frédéric Delaunay, Joachim de Greeff...
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Dialogue patterns of an arabic robot receptionist
Abstract—Hala is a bilingual (Arabic and English) culturallysensitive robot receptionist located at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. We report results from Hala’s deploymen...
Maxim Makatchev, Imran Fanaswala, Ameer Abdulsalam...