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Zhen Ma

2 accepted papers

2022

Affective Behavior Learning for Social Robot Haru with Implicit Evaluative Feedback

IROS 2022poster

We propose a human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning mechanism to help robots learn emotional behavior. Unlike the previous methods of providing explicit feedback via pressing keyboard buttons or mouse clicks, we provide a more natural way for ordinary people to train social robots how to perform s…

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2021

Automating Behavior Selection for Affective Telepresence Robot

ICRA 2021poster

The tabletop robot Haru, used for affective telepresence research, enables a teleoperator to communicate affects from a distance. The robot’s expressiveness offers myriad ways of communicating affects through the execution of emotive routines. The teleoperator reacts to input modalities such as the…

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