{"title":"Human-Assisted Learning of Object Models through Active Object Exploration","authors":"Robin Rasch, Matthias König","doi":"10.1145/3125739.3132601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3125739.3132601","url":null,"abstract":"As robots are increasingly acting in real-world environments, learning and recognition of objects is a problem. Existing methods for learning visual object models use offline techniques to generate high-quality models or online techniques to dynamically expand the object model library. We present an online learning method that creates visual object models through active object exploration. Our approach enables a robot to use manipulations of an object to learn autonomously visual features from several points of view. The ability to segment background, robot parts and the object in the visual space allows to filter irrelevant feature points. This improves the quality of the object model while decreasing its size. Finally, a human-robot interaction enables a human collaborator to improve the object model. The method is evaluated on a Pepper robot, showing the improvement in performance and accuracy with respect to interactive learning.","PeriodicalId":346669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction","volume":"624 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114400988","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}
Naoki Koyama, Kazuaki Tanaka, Kohei Ogawa, H. Ishiguro
{"title":"Emotional or Social?: How to Enhance Human-Robot Social Bonding","authors":"Naoki Koyama, Kazuaki Tanaka, Kohei Ogawa, H. Ishiguro","doi":"10.1145/3125739.3125742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3125739.3125742","url":null,"abstract":"The behavior of a social robot is designed based on either its emotional state or social situation. In this research, we defined these expressions as the affective and social expressions, and proposed a new emotional expression method to integrate these two expressions. It is known that a human has involuntary facial muscles around the eyes, and voluntary facial muscles around the mouth. Thus, it is considered that facial muscles around the eyes express the affective expressions, while facial muscles around the mouth express the social expressions. In an experiment involving a human-robot conversation, using the proposed method, the results showed a sense of human likeness and sociality. Furthermore, the intimacy evaluation results showed that the social expressions work effectively when the intimacy does not require high social bonding such as the desire for friendship. However, the affective expressions are necessary for evaluating intimacy that requires higher social bonding, such as wanting to live with someone.","PeriodicalId":346669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131653217","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":"Engage/Disengage: Control Triggers for Immersive Telepresence Robots","authors":"Do Yeon Kim, I. Cardenas, Jong-Hoon Kim","doi":"10.1145/3125739.3132603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3125739.3132603","url":null,"abstract":"Teleoperation encompasses the use of software and hardware interfaces to remotely control mechanical devices. Ideally, a telepresence humanoid robotic system, which faithfully replicates the operator's motion and accurately relays sensory feedback to the operator, should achieve tele-embodiment and reciprocally enable an immersive sense of presence for the remote operator. However, current research does not consider that operators coexist in a virtual and real environment and need continuous, alternative interaction with both virtual ('engage') or real world tasks ('disengage'). In this paper, we propose and explore the feasibility of an EMG-based control interface for disengagement from a fully immersive humanoid telepresence robot or virtual avatar - where the operator is manually and verbally constrained by the avatar's replication of the operator's motions. Our system makes use of a support vector machine (SVM) classifier, with 92.8% ± 2.5 accuracy on average, to continuously classify tongue gestures that indicate an engage or disengage command.","PeriodicalId":346669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131736610","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}
Gale M. Lucas, Jill Boberg, D. Traum, Ron Artstein, J. Gratch, Alesia Gainer, Emmanuel Johnson, A. Leuski, Mikio Nakano
{"title":"The Role of Social Dialogue and Errors in Robots","authors":"Gale M. Lucas, Jill Boberg, D. Traum, Ron Artstein, J. Gratch, Alesia Gainer, Emmanuel Johnson, A. Leuski, Mikio Nakano","doi":"10.1145/3125739.3132617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3125739.3132617","url":null,"abstract":"Social robots establish rapport with human users. This work explores the extent to which rapport-building can benefit (or harm) conversations with robots, and under what circumstances this occurs. For example, previous work has shown that agents that make conversational errors are less capable of influencing people than agents that do not make errors [1]. Some work has shown this effect with robots, but prior research has not considered additional factors such as the level of rapport between the person and the robot. We predicted that building rapport through a social dialogue (such as an ice-breaker) could mitigate the detrimental effect of a robot's errors on influence. Our study used a Nao robot programmed to persuade users to agree with its rankings on two \"survival tasks\" (e.g., lunar survival task). We manipulated both errors and social dialogue:the robot either exhibited errors in the second survival task or not, and users either engaged in an ice-breaker with the robot between the two survival tasks or completed a control task. Replicating previous research, errors tended to reduce the robot's influence in the second survival task. Contrary to our prediction, results revealed that the ice-breaker did not mitigate the effect of errors, and if anything, errors were more harmful after the ice-breaker (intended to build rapport) than in the control condition. This backfiring of attempted rapport-building may be due to a contrast effect, suggesting that the design of social robots should avoid introducing dialogues of incongruent quality.","PeriodicalId":346669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132213232","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":"Development of Interest Estimation Tool for Effective HAI","authors":"Ryoma Hida, Tetsuji Yamada, M. Miyata, T. Omori","doi":"10.1145/3125739.3132597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3125739.3132597","url":null,"abstract":"In the human-agent interaction (HAI) task, the mechanism underlying the human interpretation of logic is an important issue. However, despite the rapid development of sensory technologies, the human understanding algorithm is still at an elemental level, and novel methodologies are required. Thus, our aim was to develop an algorithm and a system that can estimate the human mental state by combining physical information from sensors and human knowledge about the interpretation of the behavior of others. As an initial step, we focused on the \"interest\" component of human behavior and demonstrated effectiveness at estimating human understanding. We then show the results for semi-automatic intention estimation in children. This system may open the way for HAI researchers to understand the real-world interactions that are driven by the human mental state.","PeriodicalId":346669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129724641","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}
Yumiko Tamura, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, M. Shiomi, T. Iio, K. Shimohara, N. Hagita
{"title":"Effects of a Listener Robot with Children in Storytelling","authors":"Yumiko Tamura, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, M. Shiomi, T. Iio, K. Shimohara, N. Hagita","doi":"10.1145/3125739.3125750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3125739.3125750","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the effects of a listener robot that joins a storytelling situation for children as a side-participant. For this purpose, we develop a storytelling-robot system that consists of both reader and listener robots. Our semi-autonomous system involves a human operator who makes correct responses and provides easily understandable answers to the children's questions during storytelling. We develop a gaze model for the natural and autonomous gaze behaviors of a reader robot by considering multiple listeners and a storytelling object (a display that shows images). We conducted an experiment with 16 children to investigate whether they preferred storytelling with/without the listener robot and the changes of speech activities during the storytelling. Children preferred storytelling with the listener robot to storytelling without it. Their speech activities decreased when the listener robot was involved in the storytelling.","PeriodicalId":346669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121702729","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}
Clemens Pohlt, Sebastian Hell, T. Schlegl, S. Wachsmuth
{"title":"Impact of Spontaneous Human Inputs during Gesture based Interaction on a Real-World Manufacturing Scenario","authors":"Clemens Pohlt, Sebastian Hell, T. Schlegl, S. Wachsmuth","doi":"10.1145/3125739.3132590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3125739.3132590","url":null,"abstract":"Seamless human-robot collaboration depends on high non-verbal behaviour recognition rates. To realize that in real-world manufacturing scenarios with an ecological valid setup, a lot of effort has to be invested. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of spontaneous inputs on the robustness of human-robot collaboration during gesture-based interaction. A high share of these spontaneous inputs lead to a reduced capability to predict behaviour and subsequently to a loss of robustness. We observe body and hand behaviour during interactive manufacturing of a collaborative task within two experiments. First, we analyse the occurrence frequency, reason and manner of human inputs in specific situations during a human-human experiment. We show the high impact of spontaneous inputs, especially in situations that differ from the typical working procedure. Second, we concentrate on implicit inputs during a real-world Wizard of Oz experiment using our human-robot working cell. We show that hand positions can be used to anticipate user needs in a semi-structured environment by applying knowledge about the semi-structured human behaviour which is distributed over working space and time in a typical manner.","PeriodicalId":346669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121707521","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":"Trip Together: A Remote Pair Sightseeing System Supporting Gestural Communication","authors":"Minghao Cai, J. Tanaka","doi":"10.1145/3125739.3125762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3125739.3125762","url":null,"abstract":"We present Trip Together, a remote pair sightseeing system supporting gestural communication between a user remaining indoor and a remote partner going outside. With the integration of Head-mounted Display and Depth Camera, we allow the local user to perform a gestural interaction with the remote user on top of the remote scene while each user is provided an independent free viewpoint. Using Trip Together, two side of users could get a feeling that they are truly walking outdoor together side by side for a trip. We have received positive feedback from a preliminary user study.","PeriodicalId":346669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133231021","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}
Wen Shen, Alanoud Al Khemeiri, Abdulla Almehrezi, Wael Al Enezi, Iyad Rahwan, J. Crandall
{"title":"Regulating Highly Automated Robot Ecologies: Insights from Three User Studies","authors":"Wen Shen, Alanoud Al Khemeiri, Abdulla Almehrezi, Wael Al Enezi, Iyad Rahwan, J. Crandall","doi":"10.1145/3125739.3125758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3125739.3125758","url":null,"abstract":"Highly automated robot ecologies (HARE), or societies of independent autonomous robots or agents, are rapidly becoming an important part of much of the world's critical infrastructure. As with human societies, regulation, wherein a governing body designs rules and processes for the society, plays an important role in ensuring that HARE meet societal objectives. However, to date, a careful study of interactions between a regulator and HARE is lacking. In this paper, we report on three user studies which give insights into how to design systems that allow people, acting as the regulatory authority, to effectively interact with HARE. As in the study of political systems in which governments regulate human societies, our studies analyze how interactions between HARE and regulators are impacted by regulatory power and individual (robot or agent) autonomy. Our results show that regulator power, decision support, and adaptive autonomy can each diminish the social welfare of HARE, and hint at how these seemingly desirable mechanisms can be designed so that they become part of successful HARE.","PeriodicalId":346669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124687091","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}
Minho Lee, T. Omori, Hirotaka Osawa, Hyeyoung Park, J. Young
{"title":"Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction","authors":"Minho Lee, T. Omori, Hirotaka Osawa, Hyeyoung Park, J. Young","doi":"10.1145/3125739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3125739","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":346669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124648602","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}