A general learning task for a robot in a new environment is to learn about objects and what actions/effects they afford. To approach this, we look at ways that a human partner c...
Psycholinguistic studies of situated language processing have revealed that gaze in the visual environment is tightly coupled with both spoken language comprehension and productio...
We describe the design and implementation of a socially assistive robot that is able to monitor the performance of a user during a combined mental and physical task, with the purp...
We present a preliminary implementation of a robot within the context of social skills intervention. The robot engages a human user in an interactive and adaptive game-playing ses...
—Natural human-robot interaction requires different and more robust models of language understanding (NLU) than non-embodied NLU systems. In particular, architectures are require...
Rehj Cantrell, Matthias Scheutz, Paul W. Schermerh...
—Reading gaze direction is important in human-robot interactions as it supports, among others, joint attention and non-linguistic interaction. While most previous work focuses on...
Abstract—Hala is a bilingual (Arabic and English) culturallysensitive robot receptionist located at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. We report results from Hala’s deploymen...