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- research-articleAugust 2024JUST ACCEPTED
Assessing the Impact of Alerts on the Human Supervisor’s Decision-Making Performance in Multi-Robot Missions
Abstract: Multi-robot teams can be very useful in wide variety of search and rescue missions in challenging environments. In a mission with considerable uncertainty due to intermittent communications, degraded information flow, and failures, humans need ...
- research-articleJanuary 2024
Understanding Human Dynamic Sampling Objectives to Enable Robot-assisted Scientific Decision Making
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), Volume 13, Issue 1Article No.: 4, Pages 1–17https://doi.org/10.1145/3623383Truly collaborative scientific field data collection between human scientists and autonomous robot systems requires a shared understanding of the search objectives and tradeoffs faced when making decisions. Therefore, critical to developing intelligent ...
- research-articleApril 2023
Design Metaphors for Understanding User Expectations of Socially Interactive Robot Embodiments
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), Volume 12, Issue 2Article No.: 21, Pages 1–41https://doi.org/10.1145/3550489The physical design of a robot suggests expectations of that robot’s functionality for human users and collaborators. When those expectations align with the robot’s true capabilities, users are more likely to adopt the technologies for their intended use. ...
- research-articleSeptember 2022
Socially Assistive Robots as Storytellers that Elicit Empathy
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), Volume 11, Issue 4Article No.: 46, Pages 1–29https://doi.org/10.1145/3538409Empathy is the ability to share someone else’s feelings or experiences; it influences how people interact and relate. Socially assistive robots (SAR) are a promising means of conveying and eliciting empathy toward facilitating human-robot interaction. ...
- research-articleSeptember 2022
Toward Personalized Affect-Aware Socially Assistive Robot Tutors for Long-Term Interventions with Children with Autism
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), Volume 11, Issue 4Article No.: 39, Pages 1–28https://doi.org/10.1145/3526111Affect-aware socially assistive robotics (SAR) has shown great potential for augmenting interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, current SAR cannot yet perceive the unique and diverse set of atypical cognitive-affective ...
- research-articleSeptember 2022
Evaluating Human–Robot Interaction Algorithms in Shared Autonomy via Quality Diversity Scenario Generation
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), Volume 11, Issue 3Article No.: 25, Pages 1–30https://doi.org/10.1145/3476412The growth of scale and complexity of interactions between humans and robots highlights the need for new computational methods to automatically evaluate novel algorithms and applications. Exploring diverse scenarios of humans and robots interacting in ...
- research-articleFebruary 2021
Mental Models of a Mobile Shoe Rack: Exploratory Findings from a Long-term In-the-Wild Study
- Matthew Rueben,
- Jeffrey Klow,
- Madelyn Duer,
- Eric Zimmerman,
- Jennifer Piacentini,
- Madison Browning,
- Frank J. Bernieri,
- Cindy M. Grimm,
- William D. Smart
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), Volume 10, Issue 2Article No.: 16, Pages 1–36https://doi.org/10.1145/3442620Most people do not have direct access to knowledge about the inner workings of robots. Instead, they must develop mental models of the robot, a process that is not well understood. This article presents findings from a long-term, in-the-wild, ...
- research-articleJanuary 2020
Trust-Aware Decision Making for Human-Robot Collaboration: Model Learning and Planning
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), Volume 9, Issue 2Article No.: 9, Pages 1–23https://doi.org/10.1145/3359616Trust in autonomy is essential for effective human-robot collaboration and user adoption of autonomous systems such as robot assistants. This article introduces a computational model that integrates trust into robot decision making. Specifically, we ...
- research-articleNovember 2018
Facilitating Human-Mobile Robot Communication via Haptic Feedback and Gesture Teleoperation
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), Volume 7, Issue 3Article No.: 20, Pages 1–23https://doi.org/10.1145/3243503In this article, we present a bi-directional communication scheme that facilitates interaction between a person and a mobile robot that follows the person. A person-following robot can assist people in many applications including load carrying, elder ...
- editorialMay 2018
- research-articleDecember 2017
Understanding agency in interactions between children with autism and socially assistive robots
Journal of Human-Robot Interaction (JHRI), Volume 6, Issue 3Pages 21–47https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.6.3.ShortSocially assistive robotics (SAR) has increasingly been shown to have potential as a tool for social skills therapy for children with autism, a developmental disorder associated with atypical social development. This work presents the results of a study ...
- research-articleSeptember 2016
Robots have needs too: how and why people adapt their proxemic behavior to improve robot social signal understanding
Journal of Human-Robot Interaction (JHRI), Volume 5, Issue 2Pages 48–68https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.5.2.MeadHuman preferences of distance (proxemics) to a robot significantly impact the performance of the robot's automated speech and gesture recognition during face-to-face, social human-robot interactions. This work investigated how people respond to a ...
- research-articleJune 2013
A socially assistive robot exercise coach for the elderly
Journal of Human-Robot Interaction (JHRI), Volume 2, Issue 2Pages 3–32https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.2.2.FasolaWe present a socially assistive robot (SAR) system designed to engage elderly users in physical exercise. We discuss the system approach, design methodology, and implementation details, which incorporate insights from psychology research on intrinsic ...
- research-articleJuly 2012
Distance-based computational models for facilitating robot interaction with children
Journal of Human-Robot Interaction (JHRI), Volume 1, Issue 1Pages 55–77https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.1.1.Feil-SeiferSensing and interpreting the user's activities and social behavior, monitoring the dynamics of the social context, and selecting and producing appropriate robot action are the core challenges involved in using robots as social tools in interaction ...