{"title":"Material Mind and Enrobotment: Living Humans vs Robots","authors":"I. Giannopulu","doi":"10.1145/3472307.3486793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472307.3486793","url":null,"abstract":"Scientists of the mind have always sought to understand how human beings grow and analyse the visual and acoustic information, move their body, reason, learn, memorise, forget, develop emotion, and build consciousness. There are functions that neuroscience examine. Scientists have also used materials to try to simulate life artificially. There is no disruption but continuity between these approaches. The aim of the talk is to discuss the relationship between neuroscience and robotics and reflect on the brain-mind-machine concept, on its internalised and externalised expressions. The ambition is to understand the enactment from the real to artificial world is rendered possible via robots. Robots are therefore considered oeuvres de l'esprit (i.e. creations of the mind). Just as importantly, what has been internalised and symbolised has been simulated and externalised. The result is that life reproduction via robots is the result of the interaction between external information (i.e. objects including their shadows) and internal interpretations: enrobotment. The construction of animate robots and humanoid robots in particular signifies that they have been incorporated into the mind. This may be the continuum from Deus ex Machina to Conscientia ex Machina.","PeriodicalId":336167,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"264 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115224477","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}
Tomoyuki Ueda, Junya Nakanishi, Itaru Kuramoto, Jun Baba, Y. Yoshikawa, H. Ishiguro
{"title":"Cyberbullying Mitigation by a Proxy Persuasion of a Chat Member Hijacked by a Chatbot","authors":"Tomoyuki Ueda, Junya Nakanishi, Itaru Kuramoto, Jun Baba, Y. Yoshikawa, H. Ishiguro","doi":"10.1145/3472307.3484177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472307.3484177","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, to mitigate cyberbullying in communication tools, we propose a method in which a chatbot pretending to be a member of a chat group defends the victim by proxy without permission (i.e., hijacking and proxy persuasion). An experiment was conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, the results of which showed that it increases the defending behavior of a user who was temporarily hijacked by the chatbot. However, compared with the existing method, the proposed method was found to have a problem with the continued use of the system.","PeriodicalId":336167,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"3 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123733061","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}
Jonas Gonzalez-Billandon, G. Belgiovine, A. Sciutti, G. Sandini, F. Rea
{"title":"Towards a Cognitive Framework for Multimodal Person Recognition in Multiparty HRI","authors":"Jonas Gonzalez-Billandon, G. Belgiovine, A. Sciutti, G. Sandini, F. Rea","doi":"10.1145/3472307.3484675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472307.3484675","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to recognize human partners is an important social skill to build personalized and long-term Human-Robot Interactions (HRI). However, in HRI contexts, unfolding in ever-changing and realistic environments, the identification problem presents still significant challenges. Possible solutions consist of relying on a multimodal approach and making robots learn from their first-hand sensory data. To this aim, we propose a framework to allow robots to autonomously organize their sensory experience into a structured dataset suitable for person recognition during a multiparty interaction. Our results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach and show that it is a promising solution in the quest of making robots more autonomous in their learning process.","PeriodicalId":336167,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115205886","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}
Juan Carlos Farah, Vandit Sharma, Sandy Ingram, D. Gillet
{"title":"Conveying the Perception of Humor Arising from Ambiguous Grammatical Constructs in Human-Chatbot Interaction","authors":"Juan Carlos Farah, Vandit Sharma, Sandy Ingram, D. Gillet","doi":"10.1145/3472307.3484677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472307.3484677","url":null,"abstract":"Chatbots have long been advocated for computer-assisted language learning systems to support learners with conversational practice. A particular challenge in such systems is explaining mistakes stemming from ambiguous grammatical constructs. Misplaced modifiers, for instance, do not make sentences ungrammatical, but introduce ambiguity through the misplacement of an adverb or prepositional phrase. In certain cases, the ambiguity gives rise to humor, which can serve to illustrate the mistake itself. We conducted an online experiment with 400 native English speakers to explore the use of a chatbot to harness such humor. In an interaction resembling an advanced grammar exercise, the chatbot presented participants with a phrase containing a misplaced modifier, explained the ambiguity in the phrase, acknowledged (or ignored) the humor that the ambiguity gave rise to, and suggested a correction. Participants then completed a questionnaire, rating the chatbot with respect to ten traits. A quantitative analysis showed a significant increase in how participants rated the chatbot’s personality, humor, and friendliness when it acknowledged the humor arising from the misplaced modifier. This effect was observed whether the acknowledgment was conveyed using verbal, nonverbal (emoji), or mixed cues.","PeriodicalId":336167,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114279460","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}
Ali Noormohamm-Adi, Abhinav Dahiya, A. M. Aroyo, Stephen L. Smith, K. Dautenhahn
{"title":"The Effect of Robot Decision Making on Human Perception of a Robot in a Collaborative Task - A Remote Study","authors":"Ali Noormohamm-Adi, Abhinav Dahiya, A. M. Aroyo, Stephen L. Smith, K. Dautenhahn","doi":"10.1145/3472307.3484671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472307.3484671","url":null,"abstract":"The use of collaborative robots is becoming more widespread across industries. This makes it essential to study robot planning in order to work effectively and smoothly with human teammates while maintaining a positive human perception of the robots. This paper evaluates the influence of a robot’s strategy and decision making on the participants’ perception of the robot. We designed an online experiment where a robot and participants need to collaborate and organize a set of objects. We studied three different strategies where the robot either prioritizes the human’s objective, its own objective, or uses a balanced strategy. We then analyze and report the results based on participants’ answers to questionnaires before and after the experiment, their comments, and their actions during the experiment. The results show that strategies prioritizing the human’s objective, or balancing between the robot’s and the human’s objectives can effectively improve participants’ perception of the robot and create a collaborative environment.","PeriodicalId":336167,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"188 7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124307016","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}
Ayaka Ueda, Hamed Mahzoon, Y. Yoshikawa, H. Ishiguro
{"title":"Expression of Robot’s Emotion and Intention Utilizing Physical Positioning in Conversation","authors":"Ayaka Ueda, Hamed Mahzoon, Y. Yoshikawa, H. Ishiguro","doi":"10.1145/3472307.3484162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472307.3484162","url":null,"abstract":"More and more robots are providing services that involve conversations with people in daily life. Among them, the movement and positioning of the robot are effective factors to improve the robot’s expression, and the distance from the human and the direction of the robot are reported as important parameters. In multi-person dialogues, it is expected that robots can communicate their impressions, emotions, and thoughts to other robots by successfully adjusting their movement and positioning. We investigated the effect of the robot’s movement in a conversation on the subsequent conversation and the expression of the moving robot. It was found that there were intentions and emotions of the robot that could be expressed by moving forward and backward, respectively. The next step of this experiment is to conduct interaction between subjects using a system that incorporates forward and backward movements.","PeriodicalId":336167,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"289 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132638828","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":"Examining the Factors that Make Co-Watching with Agents Effective","authors":"M. Abe, Kohei Okuoka, Masahiko Osawa","doi":"10.1145/3472307.3484654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472307.3484654","url":null,"abstract":"The spread of video streaming services has increased the opportunities for video watching, and research on co-watching with agents is also being conducted. However, few studies have been conducted and not insufficient knowledge has been obtained. In this study, we will conduct an investigation on the relationship among the background of the co-watchers, the video evaluation, and the agent’s impression. In the experiment, we asked the participants to co-watch a basketball game with an agent who responded appropriately then, and after watching, they answered a questionnaire. As a result, there was a moderate correlation between the Likeability and the evaluation of the video watching. There was also a correlation between the evaluation of the video watching and the empathy for the agent.","PeriodicalId":336167,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129748222","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}
Mahsa Golchoubian, M. Ghafurian, N. Azad, K. Dautenhahn
{"title":"What are Social Norms for Low-speed Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in Crowded Environments? An Online Survey","authors":"Mahsa Golchoubian, M. Ghafurian, N. Azad, K. Dautenhahn","doi":"10.1145/3472307.3484182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472307.3484182","url":null,"abstract":"It has been suggested that autonomous vehicles can improve efficiency and safety of the transportation systems. While research in this area often focuses on autonomous vehicles which operate on roads, the deployment of low-speed, autonomous vehicles in unstructured, crowded environments has been studied less well and requires specific considerations regarding their interaction with pedestrians. For making the operation of these vehicles acceptable, their behaviour needs to be perceived as safe by both pedestrians and the passengers riding the vehicle. In this paper we conducted an online survey with 116 participants, to understand people’s preferences with respect to an autonomous golf cart’s behaviour in different interaction scenarios. We measured people’s self-reported perceived safety towards different behaviour of the cart in a variety of scenarios. Results suggested that despite the unstructured nature of the environment, the cart was expected to follow common traffic rules when interacting with a group of pedestrians.","PeriodicalId":336167,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130977526","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":"Constellation: a Multi-User Interface for Remote Drone Tours","authors":"Jiannan Li, Maurício Sousa, Ravin Balakrishnan, Tovi Grossman","doi":"10.1145/3472307.3484685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472307.3484685","url":null,"abstract":"Remotely controlled camera drones can support live, dynamic, and interactive virtual tours for travelers to overcome distance, expense, and health barriers. Yet, assigning one drone to one traveler may incur unnecessary waste of resources, and an abundance of concurrent drones raises safety concerns. While sharing the input and output of a single drone among multiple concurrent users can alleviate these limitations, standard control sharing protocols, such as turn-taking, are often inefficient. We present Constellation, a multi-user drone control system that synthesizes diverse user goals and generates efficient flight paths for the group. It supports point-of-interest specification on both static 3D environmental maps and live camera views. The generated paths minimize all users’ total extra waiting time. A web-based study with 16 participants show that Constellation could help groups navigate to their points-of-interest faster in comparison to the turn-taking baseline.","PeriodicalId":336167,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"42 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131859445","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":"On the Effect of User Faults on her Perception of Agent’s Faults in Collaborative Settings","authors":"Reut Asraf, Chen Rozenshtein, David Sarne","doi":"10.1145/3472307.3484681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3472307.3484681","url":null,"abstract":"In various human-agent collaborative settings the agent is fault-prone. In many of these settings, it is possible that the human user will also account to failure, hindering task execution. In this paper we study the effect of the latter type of failures over the user’s satisfaction with the agent in the collaborative setting. We report the results of two experiments, differing in the number of agent’s faults and the way faults influence task progress and attract players’ focus, with 264 subjects recruited and interacted through Amazon Mechanical Turk. We find that when the user accounts for some faults during the collaborative execution of the task, she becomes more forgiving to the agent faults, and consequently more satisfied with the collaboration, compared to the case where she makes no faults. The importance of this finding becomes most apparent in the design of collaborative agents.","PeriodicalId":336167,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116466914","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}