Elena Lazkano

Toward Human-Like Assistance: Detecting Help-Seeking in Human–Robot Collaboration Via Implicit Signals

Which gesture generator performs better?

Talking gestures are a fundamental part of body language and, therefore, are also important for social robots. Gesture generation by generative approaches is supposed to produce a more appropriate behavior than rule-based approaches. Usually, the evaluation of generated gestures is carried out by su…

Singing minstrel robots, a means for improving social behaviors

Bertsolaritza, Basque improvised contest poetry, offers another sphere to develop robot body language and robot communication capabilities, that shares some similarities with theatrical performances. It is also a new area to work on social robotics. The work presented in this paper makes some steps