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HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 9 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
13 years 10 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
13 years 10 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
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
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 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
13 years 11 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
13 years 12 months ago
Developing heuristics for assistive robotics
Katherine M. Tsui, Kareem Abu-Zahra, Renato Casipe...
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 12 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
13 years 12 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
13 years 12 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...