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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…

Cited by 4SourceScholar
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…

Cited by 7SourceScholar