Iman Bakhoda — accepted AI-conference papers

2024

Exploring the Impact of Narrator Type on Response Latency and Utterance Length During Interactive Storytelling

Iman Bakhoda, Pourya Shahverdi, Katelyn Rousso, Justin Klotz, Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie

ICRA 2024poster

The inexorable progress of technology brought forth an era where robots increasingly integrate into human life which necessitates the understanding of human-robot interactions (HRI). This study unravels the details of HRI within interactive storytelling contexts. Through a between-subject experiment…

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2023

Emotionally Specific Backchanneling in Social Human-Robot Interaction and Human-Human Interaction

Pourya Shahverdi, Katelyn Rousso, Justin Klotz, Iman Bakhoda, Malek Zribi, Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie

IROS 2023poster

Backchanneling models, designed to enhance the interactive capabilities of robots, have primarily been trained on human-human interaction data. However, applying such data directly to social robots raises concerns due to dissimilarities in the way humans and robots exhibit verbal and nonverbal behav…

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