8 accepted papers
As artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in our society and global economy, AI education and literacy have become necessary components in college and K-12 education to prepare students for an AI-powered society. However, current AI curricula have not yet been made ac…
Generative models can serve as surrogates for some real data sources by creating synthetic training datasets, but in doing so they may transfer biases to downstream tasks. We focus on protecting quality and diversity when generating synthetic training datasets. We propose quality-diversity generativ…
Behavior trees (BTs) are hierarchical agent control architectures popular for robot task-level planning that can be autonomously learned from robot demonstrations via decision tree (DT) intermediaries, making them accessible to non-expert users. Conversion algorithms from DTs to BTs, such as the BT-…
The research and development of socially interactive robots is a complex challenge because of the wide variety of capabilities needed for effective social human-robot interactions (HRI). Many of these capabilities, including perception, dialog, and control, have state of the art methods and solution…
Socially assistive robots have the potential to improve group dynamics when interacting with groups of people in social settings. This work contributes to the understanding of those dynamics through a user study of trust dynamics in the novel context of a robot mediated support group. For this study…
Since robots are increasingly expected to work in concert with humans in dynamic, unstructured environments, they will need to express information about their state and actions. We propose a formalism for planning robot communication that employs a probabilistic representation of the robots world. T…
Recent work has shown the potential for lights to act as simple, yet expressive signaling mechanisms for use in a variety of human-robot applications. However, the wide range of robot shapes and sizes makes it difficult for researchers to quickly prototype and evaluate different light configurations…
An objective of an autonomous sociable robot is to meet the needs and preferences of a human user. However, this can sometimes be at the expense of the robot's own ability to understand social signals produced by the user. In particular, human preferences of distance (proxemics) to the robot can hav…