9 accepted papers
For human operators to effectively task teams of robots, it is critical that they maintain situational awareness about the status of those robots. However, maintaining this situational awareness becomes particularly difficult when there are dynamic changes not only in the members of the robot team,
Maintaining Situational Awareness (SA) is critical in space exploration contexts, yet made particularly difficult due to the presence of communication latency. In order to increase human SA without inducing cognitive overload, researchers have proposed Performative Autonomy (PA), in which robots int
In this paper we explore if human mental models of objects, even when flawed, can be integrated with a collaborative robot's decision making framework to allow it to make smarter choices under partial observability for different object-related tasks such as assembly and troubleshooting. We demonstra
Robots that use gestures in conjunction with speech can achieve more effective and natural communication with human teammates, however, not all robots have capable and dexterous arms. Augmented Reality technology has effectively enabled deictic gestures for morphologically limited robots in prior wo
Robots that use natural language in collaborative tasks must refer to objects in their environment. Recent work has shown the utility of the linguistic theory of the Givenness Hierarchy (GH) in generating appropriate referring forms. But before referring expression generation, collaborative robots m…
Acceptance of social robots in human-robot collaborative environments depends on the robots’ sensitivity to human moral and social norms. Robot behavior that violates norms may decrease trust and lead human interactants to blame the robot and view it negatively. Hence, for long-term acceptance, soci…
As the linguistic capabilities of interactive robots advance, it becomes increasingly important to understand how humans will instruct robots through natural language. What is more, with the increased use of teleoperated humanoid robots, it is important to recognize whether any differences between i…
Robots designed to interact with humans in realistic environments must be able to handle uncertainty with respect to the identities and properties of the people, places, and things found in their environments. When humans refer to these entities using under-specified language, robots must often gene…
The problem of uniquely identifying an entity described in natural language, known as reference resolution, has become recognized as a critical problem for the field of robotics, as it is necessary in order for robots to be able to discuss, reason about, or perform actions involving any people, loca…