8 accepted papers
After-action reviews (AARs) are professional discussions that help operators and teams enhance their task performance by analyzing completed missions with peers and professionals. Previous studies comparing different formats of AARs have focused mainly on human teams. However, the inclusion of robot
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…
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…
For socially assistive robots to achieve widespread adoption, the ability to learn new tasks in the wild is critical. Learning from Demonstration (LfD) approaches are a popular method for learning in the wild, but current methods require significant amounts of data and can be difficult to interpret.…
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…
Obstacle avoidance for robotic manipulators can be challenging when they operate in unstructured environments. This problem is probed with the sim-to-real (sim2real) deep reinforcement learning, such that a moving policy of the robotic arm is learnt in a simulator and then adapted to the real world.
Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) have demonstrated success in the delivery of interventions to individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). To date, these robot-mediated interventions have primarily been designed and implemented by robotics researchers. It remains unclear whether therapists coul…
Group-based recreational activities have shown to have a number of health benefits for people of all ages. The handful of social robots designed to facilitate such activities are currently only able to implement a priori known recreational activities that have been pre-programmed by human experts. O…