Abstract. Understanding intent is an important aspect of communication among people and is an essential component of the human cognitive system. This capability is particularly rel...
Alireza Tavakkoli, Richard Kelley, Christopher Kin...
This paper reports on a study of human participants with a robot designed to participate in a collaborative conversation with a human. The purpose of the study was to investigate ...
Candace L. Sidner, Christopher Lee, Louis-Philippe...
—Based on a study of the engagement process between humans, we have developed and implemented an initial computational model for recognizing engagement between a human and a huma...
Charles Rich, Brett Ponsleur, Aaron Holroyd, Canda...
As robots enter the human environment and come in contact with inexperienced users, they need to be able to interact with users in a multi-modal fashion—keyboard and mouse are n...
Soshi Iba, Christiaan J. J. Paredis, Pradeep K. Kh...
— Communication skill is essential for social robots in various environments such as homes, offices, and hospitals, where the robots are expected to interact with humans. In thi...