{"title":"Estimating Robot Induced Affective State using Hidden Markov Models","authors":"D. Kulić, E. Croft","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314427","url":null,"abstract":"In order for humans and robots to interact in an effective and intuitive manner, robots must obtain information about the human affective state in response to the robot's actions. This secondary mode of interactive communication is hypothesized to permit a more natural collaboration, similar to the \"body language\" interaction between two cooperating humans. This paper describes the implementation and validation of a hidden Markov model for estimating human affective state in real-time, using robot motions as the stimulus. Inputs to the system are physiological signals such as heart rate, perspiration rate, and facial muscle contraction. Affective state was estimated using a two dimensional valence-arousal representation. A robot manipulator was used to generate motions simulating human-robot interaction, and human subjects were asked to report their response to the motions. The human physiological response was also measured. Robot motions were generated using both a nominal potential field planner and a recently reported safe motion planner that minimizes the potential collision forces along the path. The robot motions were tested with 36 subjects. This data was used to train and validate the HMM model. The results of the HMM affective estimation are also compared to a previously implemented fuzzy inference engine","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115806431","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}
P. Dario, C. Stefanini, A. Menciassi, C. Laschi, F. Vecchi
{"title":"Towards a New Generation of Hybrid Bionic Systems for Telepresence: the Lamprey Model","authors":"P. Dario, C. Stefanini, A. Menciassi, C. Laschi, F. Vecchi","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314377","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces the main objectives of the neurobotics project aimed at designing and developing innovative hybrid bionic systems (HBSs) by fusing neuroscience and robotics. Eight different HBSs have been jointly designed and are being developed. This paper presents in detail the telepresence platform. The neurobotics artificial lamprey model has been designed to validate a number of neuroscience models and to investigate new telepresence strategies","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129636447","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":"Augmenting SLAM with Object Detection in a Service Robot Framework","authors":"P. Jensfelt, S. Ekvall, D. Kragic, D. Aarno","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314489","url":null,"abstract":"In a service robot scenario, we are interested in a task of building maps of the environment that include automatically recognized objects. Most systems for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) build maps that are only used for localizing the robot. Such maps are typically based on grids or different types of features such as point and lines. Here, we augment the process with an object recognition system that detects objects in the environment and puts them in the map generated by the SLAM system. During task execution, the robot can use this information to reason about objects, places and their relationships. The metric map is also split into topological entities corresponding to rooms. In this way, the user can command the robot to retrieve an object from a particular room or get help from a robot when searching for a certain object","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129992299","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":"Inducing change in user's perspective with the arrangement of body orientation of embodied agents","authors":"Satoshi V. Suzuki, Hideaki Takeda","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314371","url":null,"abstract":"We set out to reveal that arrangement of embodied agents' body orientation can influence the perception of body schema and the thought of users. Embodied agents are one type of media that can socially appeal to the user's intuitive thought, especially through their body expression. We focused on embodied agents' body orientation as a means to induce the user to perceive his/her body schema inside virtual space and to accept the perceived thought of an embodied agent. A psychological experiment was conducted, since arrangement of body orientation between two people or between a user and an embodied agent often influences the social relationship between them. The result of the experiment suggested that an embodied agent whose thought was different from the user's at first and whose body orientation corresponded with the user's could trigger the user's consideration of its opinions more strongly than when this agent showed the side of its body to the user. However, difference in the perception of the body schema in virtual space by the agent's body orientation arrangement was not observed. We investigated the relation between body orientation of embodied agents and change in user's perspective, and suggested a design principle embodied agents' body orientation for enhanced association between the agent and the user","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117198797","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":"Synchronization in Social Tasks: Robotic Drumming","authors":"C. Crick, Matthew Munz, B. Scassellati","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314401","url":null,"abstract":"Music performance is an important, well-structured setting for evaluating a robot's ability to detect, understand and respond appropriately to complex human activity. Social tasks such as cooperative performance require participants to detect, interpret and attune to the actions of their partners quickly and accurately. The synthesis of multiple sensory perceptions may be a fruitful approach to this problem. In order to evaluate this approach, we programmed a humanoid robot, Nico, to play a drum in concert with human drummers and at the direction of a human conductor. Our results show that sensory integration can enable precise synchronization in social tasks even when perceptual data is imperfect, misleading and subject to extensive processing delay. By integrating several streams of information - visual, auditory, and proprioceptive - Nico can attune to a tempo that is set by a human conductor, in concert with human performers. Nico continuously evaluates its perceptions of its own actions and those of the humans around it, dealing with unforeseen changes in tempo and affect in real time","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122870444","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":"Utilizing Theory of Mind on Human Agent Interaction","authors":"K. Terada, Takashi Shamoto, A. Ito","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314492","url":null,"abstract":"The present study examined the effect of artifact's direction of attention detector (DAD) stimulating actions on the human psychological stance to the artifact. The DAD is a specialized brain function used to determine the attention target by combining information from separate detectors, e.g., direction of eye, head, body and locomotion. We designed sequences of DAD stimulating movement of a chair which can represent its attention to a subject. The chair was controlled by a remote experimenter. The subjects were randomly assigned to one of the two conditions: the DAD stimulating condition and the random action condition (control condition). The result indicated that the DAD stimulating actions changed the subject's stance and enabled them to discern its intention","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117334250","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}
G. Kruijff, H. Zender, P. Jensfelt, H. Christensen
{"title":"Situated dialogue and understanding spatial organization: Knowing what is where and what you can do there","authors":"G. Kruijff, H. Zender, P. Jensfelt, H. Christensen","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314438","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents an HRI architecture for human-augmented mapping. Through interaction with a human, the robot can augment its autonomously learnt metric map with qualitative information about locations and objects in the environment. The system implements various interaction strategies observed in independent Wizard-of-Oz studies. The paper discusses an ontology-based approach to representing and inferring 2.5D spatial organization, and presents how knowledge of spatial organization can be acquired autonomously or through spoken dialogue interaction","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124118911","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}
E. A. Sisbot, A. Clodic, L. Marín-Urías, Mathias Fontmarty, L. Brethes, R. Alami
{"title":"Implementing a Human-Aware Robot System","authors":"E. A. Sisbot, A. Clodic, L. Marín-Urías, Mathias Fontmarty, L. Brethes, R. Alami","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314487","url":null,"abstract":"The presence of humans in the robot environment brings new challenges to the robotic research. From low level functions to high level planners, clearly the human has to be taken into account in all the layers of the robot control system. Indeed, the robot has to behave socially in order to interact friendly with its human partners. This paper describes the development of several components (human detection and tracking, planning and supervision) that take into account humans explicitly with some preliminary results of their integration","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131196955","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}
Andrea Scheidig, Steffen Müller, Christian Martin, H. Groß
{"title":"Generating Persons Movement Trajectories on a Mobile Robot","authors":"Andrea Scheidig, Steffen Müller, Christian Martin, H. Groß","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314490","url":null,"abstract":"For socially interactive robots it is essential to be able to estimate the interest of people to interact with them. Based on this estimation the robot can adapt its dialog strategy to the different people's behaviors. Consequently, efficient and robust techniques for people detection and tracking are basic prerequisites when dealing with human-robot interaction (HRI) in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we introduce an imposed approach for integration of several sensor modalities and present a multimodal, probability-based people detection and tracking system and its application using the different sensory systems of our mobile interaction robot HOROS. For each of these sensory cues, separate and specific Gaussian distributed hypotheses are generated and further merged into a robot-centered map by means of a flexible probabilistic aggregation scheme based on covariance intersection (CI). The main advantages of this approach are the simple extensibility by integration of further sensory channels, even with different update frequencies, and the usability in real-world HRI tasks. Finally, promising experimental results achieved for people tracking in a real-world environment, and university building, are presented","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131344208","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 Praise and Punishment in Human-Robot Collaborative Teams","authors":"C. Bartneck, Juliane Reichenbach, Julie Carpenter","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314414","url":null,"abstract":"Robots, specifically androids, become increasingly important in the consumer market where they are marketed as toys or companions, as well as in the industry, where they will increasingly often play the role of a co-worker. The developers in various robotics communities are divided about design issues in these companion-worker androids. While some robot developers believe people will work more effectively with humanoid robots in the role of companion or co-worker because of a more natural interaction, others think it's necessary to maintain a machine-like interface to avoid distractions. Consequently, the ability of humans to coordinate and interact with robots, and human perceptions and actions based on varying levels of humanlike robot interfaces are of great interest. This paper presents preliminary results from a study that investigated how people use praise and punishment in a collaborative game scenario. Subjects played a game together with humans, computers, and anthropomorphic and zoomorphic robots. They could give plus points and minus points as praise and punishment for correct or wrong partner answers. Results show that praise and punishment were used the same way for computer and human partners. Yet robots, which are essentially computers with an embodiment, were treated differently. Very machinelike robots were treated just like the computer and the human; robots very high on anthropomorphism/zoomorphism were praised more and punished less","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121617929","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}