6 papers
A Systematic Review of Human-AI Co-Creativity
Saloni Singh, Koen Hindriks, Dirk Heylen +1
The co creativity community is making significant progress in developing more sophisticated and tailored systems to support and enhance human creativity. Design considerations from…
Exploring the Effect of Robotic Embodiment and Empathetic Tone of LLMs on Empathy Elicitation
Liza Darwesh, Jaspreet Singh, Marin Marian +3
This study investigates the elicitation of empathy toward a third party through interaction with social agents. Participants engaged with either a physical robot or a voice-enabled…
Dialogic Learning in Child-Robot Interaction: A Hybrid Approach to Personalized Educational Content Generation
Elena Malnatsky, Shenghui Wang, Koen V. Hindriks +1
Dialogic learning fosters motivation and deeper understanding in education through purposeful and structured dialogues. Foundational models offer a transformative potential for chi…
Robot Policy Transfer with Online Demonstrations: An Active Reinforcement Learning Approach
Muhan Hou, Koen Hindriks, A. E. Eiben +1
Transfer Learning (TL) is a powerful tool that enables robots to transfer learned policies across different environments, tasks, or embodiments. To further facilitate this process,…
Active Robot Curriculum Learning from Online Human Demonstrations
Muhan Hou, Koen Hindriks, A. E. Eiben +1
Learning from Demonstrations (LfD) allows robots to learn skills from human users, but its effectiveness can suffer due to sub-optimal teaching, especially from untrained demonstra…
What Can You Say to a Robot? Capability Communication Leads to More Natural Conversations
Merle M. Reimann, Koen V. Hindriks, Florian A. Kunneman +3
When encountering a robot in the wild, it is not inherently clear to human users what the robot's capabilities are. When encountering misunderstandings or problems in spoken intera…