{"title":"Rapid prototyping framework for robot-assisted training of autistic children","authors":"Min-Gyu Kim, E. Barakova, T. Lourens","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926278","url":null,"abstract":"Research in uptake and actual use of robots in socially assistive tasks is rapidly growing. However, practical applications lack behind due to the enormous effort to create meaningful behaviours. This paper describes a rapid prototyping framework for robot-assisted training of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The main goal of this research is to provide a framework which translates the knowledge from the evidenced Pivotal Response Training to end-user tools, that allow therapists to program/adapt a training program mediated by a robot in order to use it in therapies. The overall structure of the intervention is based on Activity Theory which makes it easy to properly arrange robot actions and decisions. We appended a general end-user robot programming tool with PRT therapy-specific training structures which can be adapted with ease to create almost limitless learning opportunities utilizing a range of training scenarios or games. Pilot tests with children with ASD were performed to assess whether the robot assisted intervention created by this framework is ready for practical use. These showed that only minor adaptations were needed to increase the fluency of the robot-child interaction.","PeriodicalId":235810,"journal":{"name":"The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128848474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A focus group study on the design considerations and impressions of a socially assistive robot for long-term care","authors":"W. Louie, Jacob Li, T. Vaquero, G. Nejat","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926259","url":null,"abstract":"As older adults age, they are more likely to reside in long-term care facilities due to the decline in cognitive and/or physical abilities that prevent them from living independently. With a rapidly aging population there is an increasing demand on long-term care facilities to care for older adults. Such facilities need to provide medical services, assistance in activities of daily living, and scheduled leisure activities to improve health and quality of life. However, as the need for long-term care is increasing, the care workforce is faced with decreasing numbers of healthcare staff and high turnover rates. Our research focuses on the design of socially assistive robots to plan, schedule, and facilitate social and cognitive interventions for residents in long-term care facilities. In this paper, we investigate the specific design considerations and the impressions of long-term care residents, healthcare professionals, and family members on a socially assistive robot designed to autonomously facilitate cognitively and socially stimulating leisure activities. Thematic analysis of focus group sessions conducted at a long-term care facility with the aforementioned individuals revealed important design considerations for the development and integration of a socially assistive robot in long-term care facilities.","PeriodicalId":235810,"journal":{"name":"The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129678900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A public domain dataset for ADL recognition using wrist-placed accelerometers","authors":"Barbara Bruno, F. Mastrogiovanni, A. Sgorbissa","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926341","url":null,"abstract":"The automatic monitoring of specific Activities of Daily Living (ADL) can be a useful tool for Human-Robot Interaction in smart environments and Assistive Robotics applications. The qualitative definition that is given for most ADL and the lack of well-defined benchmarks, however, are obstacles toward the identification of the most effective monitoring approaches for different tasks. The contribution of the article is two-fold: (i) we propose a taxonomy of ADL allowing for their categorization with respect to the most suitable monitoring approach; (ii) we present a freely available dataset of acceleration data, coming from a wrist-worn wearable device, targeting the recognition of 14 different human activities.","PeriodicalId":235810,"journal":{"name":"The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"412 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124409657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Playte, a tangible interface for engaging human-robot interaction","authors":"D. Christensen, Rune Fogh, H. Lund","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926230","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a tangible interface, Playte, designed for children animating interactive robots. The system supports physical manipulation of behaviors represented by LEGO bricks and allows the user to record and train their own new behaviors. Our objective is to explore several modes of interaction, i.e. direct remote control, tangible programming, programming by demonstration, and programming by training, to learn the design principles for more accessible, engaging, and playful robots. We evaluate the system experimentally and report on key observations from play sessions. We conclude that Playte facilitates playful activities and is appropriate for the intended target group (age 6+). Further, we discuss lessons learned regarding pros and cons of the different supported interactions modes.","PeriodicalId":235810,"journal":{"name":"The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122644256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Süssenbach, N. Riether, S. Schneider, I. Berger, F. Kummert, I. Lütkebohle, K. Pitsch
{"title":"A robot as fitness companion: Towards an interactive action-based motivation model","authors":"L. Süssenbach, N. Riether, S. Schneider, I. Berger, F. Kummert, I. Lütkebohle, K. Pitsch","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926267","url":null,"abstract":"The topic of motivation is a crucial issue for various human-robot interaction (HRI) scenarios. Interactional aspects of motivation can be studied in human-human interaction (HHI) and build the basis for modeling a robot's interactional conduct. Using an ethnographic approach we explored the factors relevant in the formation of motivation-relevant processes in an indoor-cycling activity. We propose an interactive, action-based motivation model for HRI that has been implemented in an autonomous robot system and tested during a long-term HRI study. The model is based on micro-analyses of human indoor cycling courses and resulted in an adaption of specific dialog patterns for HRI. A qualitative evaluation - accompanied by a quantitative analysis - demonstrated that the transfer of interaction patterns from HHI to HRI was successful with participants benefitting from the interaction experience (e.g., performance, subjective feeling of being motivated).","PeriodicalId":235810,"journal":{"name":"The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114369721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use of angular acceleration and velocity estimates for control of pneumatic-powered wearable motion assist device","authors":"F. Fujii, Yuta Hirose, Hiroyoshi Murata, T. Okada","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926405","url":null,"abstract":"The focus of this paper is to develop a control system for wearable motion assist device giving physical support for people who are doing physically demanding tasks. Two key technical issues in developing such a device are how to generate the reference trajectory for the actuator installed to provide appropriate motion support, and how to determine the strength and duration of assist to help complete current physical task. This paper tackles the use of joint angular acceleration and velocity estimates in the control of motion assist device. How the estimates are generated, how they are used in control and how the control system is organized to achieve performance requirements will be described. Several experiments have been conducted to test basic functionality of the developed 5 d.o.f. wearable assist device as well as to gain insights on how to tune physically motivated control system parameters.","PeriodicalId":235810,"journal":{"name":"The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123970256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Robot that Perceives Human Emotions and Implications in human-robot interaction","authors":"Vesna Kirandziska, N. Ackovska","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926301","url":null,"abstract":"In human - robot interaction many different signals are used by robots in order to get a proper environment representation. Even more so, the social robots, whose primary task is to maintain successful interaction with humans, should use input signals in order to model the human itself. One important human characteristic is the human emotional state. As a result, perceiving human emotions is one challenging task for social robots. This paper is a summary of the construction of an example robot that can perceive human emotion evaluation based on some new implementation ideas. Here, the building process is described along with the challenges and the results from the research. Experimental results are used to support the conclusion. The importance of robots that perceive emotion evaluation in human-robot interaction in general is stated as well.","PeriodicalId":235810,"journal":{"name":"The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124286040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Potential human reaction aware mobile robot motion planner: Potential cost minimization framework","authors":"Hao Li, O. Ramírez, M. Chetouani","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926292","url":null,"abstract":"Robots have been stepping steadily into our daily-life. As humans are likely to exist in daily-life scenarios, “human-aware” becomes an essential point for robot navigation in these scenarios. Existing research works on human aware robot navigation rarely take potential human reaction into account in the motion planner. In contrast, we propose in this paper the concept of potential human reaction aware motion planner (PHRAMP), i.e. the robot had better take potential human reaction into account in its motion planning. We propose a general methodology coined as the potential cost minimization (PCM) framework for realizing PHRAMPs. We present some theoretical characteristics of this framework and explain its relationship with existing methods. We describe an instantiation of the PCM framework which serves as a concrete example PHRAMP to demonstrate the utility and advantage of the PCM framework.","PeriodicalId":235810,"journal":{"name":"The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121623291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legible robot pointing","authors":"Rachel Holladay, A. Dragan, S. Srinivasa","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926256","url":null,"abstract":"Good communication is critical to seamless human-robot interaction. Among numerous communication channels, here we focus on gestures, and in particular on spacial deixis: pointing at objects in the environment in order to reference them. We propose a mathematical model that enables robots to generate pointing configurations that make the goal object as clear as possible - pointing configurations that are legible. We study the implications of legibility on pointing, e.g. that the robot will sometimes need to trade off efficiency for the sake of clarity. Finally, we test how well our model works in practice in a series of user studies, showing that the resulting pointing configurations make the goal object easier to infer for novice users.","PeriodicalId":235810,"journal":{"name":"The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121917675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influences of experiences of robots into Negative Attitudes toward Robots","authors":"T. Nomura","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926295","url":null,"abstract":"In order to investigate what type of experiences of robots influences negative attitudes toward them, an online survey (N = 1,200) was conducted in Japan, by using the Negative Attitudes toward Robots Scale (NARS). The results suggested that (1) there were almost no strong relationships between types of robot experiences and gender, and age, (2) the correlations between negative attitudes toward robots and age were low, (3) experiences of robots in real situations decreased negative attitudes toward interaction with and social influences of robots in comparison with experiences via media, and (4) negative attitudes toward emotional interaction with robots were not affected by these experiences.","PeriodicalId":235810,"journal":{"name":"The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122080531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}