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Pourya Shahverdi

3 accepted papers

2024

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

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…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

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

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…

Cited by 4SourceScholar
2022

Learning Turn-Taking Behavior from Human Demonstrations for Social Human-Robot Interactions

IROS 2022poster

Turn-taking is a fundamental behavior during human interactions and robots must be capable of turn-taking to interact with humans. Current state-of-the-art approaches in turn-taking focus on developing general models to predict the end of turn (EoT) across all contexts. This demands an all-inclusive…

Cited by 2SourceScholar