Guillermo Pérez — accepted AI-conference papers

2024

Design of Embodied Mediator Haru for Remote Cross Cultural Communication

Randy Gomez, Deborah Szapiro, Sara Cooper, Nabil Bougria, Guillermo Pérez, Eric Nichols +5

ICRA 2024poster

Social robots for children have focused mainly on conventional education domains such as teaching language, science, and math, while applications focusing on the enhancement of cultural competency are quite scarce. In this paper, we present a prototype of a robot-mediation framework for cross-cultur…

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2022

Hey Haru, Let's Be Friends! Using the Tiers of Friendship to Build Rapport through Small Talk with the Tabletop Robot Haru

Eric Nichols, Sarah Rose Siskind, Levko Ivanchuk, Guillermo Pérez, Waki Kamino, Selma Šabanović +1

IROS 2022poster

Conversation can play an essential role in forging bonds between humans and social robots, but participants need to feel like they are being listened to, remembered, and cared about in order to effectively build rapport. In this paper, we propose a novel strategy for conducting small talk with a soc…

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