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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
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
How people talk when teaching a robot
Elizabeth S. Kim, Dan Leyzberg, Katherine M. Tsui,...
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Visual attention in spoken human-robot interaction
Psycholinguistic studies of situated language processing have revealed that gaze in the visual environment is tightly coupled with both spoken language comprehension and productio...
Maria Staudte, Matthew W. Crocker
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Robot motivator: improving user performance on a physical/mental task
We describe the design and implementation of a socially assistive robot that is able to monitor the performance of a user during a combined mental and physical task, with the purp...
Juan Fasola, Maja J. Mataric
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The power of suggestion: teaching sequences through assistive robot motions
We present a preliminary implementation of a robot within the context of social skills intervention. The robot engages a human user in an interactive and adaptive game-playing ses...
Ross Mead, Maja J. Mataric
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Developing heuristics for assistive robotics
Katherine M. Tsui, Kareem Abu-Zahra, Renato Casipe...
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 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 11 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 11 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...