We present a method of grounded word learning that is powerful enough to learn the meanings of first and second person pronouns. The model uses the understood words in an utteran...
This paper presents results toward our ongoing research program into hands-off assistive human-robot interaction [6]. Our work has focused on applications of socially assistive r...
Robot programmers are faced with the challenging problem of understanding the robot’s view of its world, both when creating and when debugging robot software. As a result tools ...
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...
Polymorphic, or shape-shifting, robots can normally tackle more types of tasks than non-polymorphic robots due to their flexible morphology. Their versatility adds to the challeng...
Jill L. Drury, Holly A. Yanco, Whitney Howell, Bri...
Humanoid robots offer many physical design choices such as voice frequency and head dimensions. We used hierarchical statistical mediation analysis to trace differences in people...
In order for humans and robots to work effectively together, they need to be able to converse about abilities, goals and achievements. Thus, we are developing an interaction infr...
Terrence Fong, Clayton Kunz, Laura M. Hiatt, Magda...
There is growing interest in mining the world of video games to find inspiration for human-robot interaction (HRI) design. This paper segments video game interaction into domain-i...
This paper investigates human behavior around an interactive robot at a science museum. To develop a communication robot that works in daily environments, it is important to inves...