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Gesture Generation from Trimodal Context for Humanoid Robots
Shiyi Tang, Christian Dondrup
Natural co-speech gestures are essential components to improve the experience of Human-robot interaction (HRI). However, current gesture generation approaches have many limitations…
Explainable Representations of the Social State: A Model for Social Human-Robot Interactions
Daniel Hernández García, Yanchao Yu, Weronika Sieińska +4
In this paper, we propose a minimum set of concepts and signals needed to track the social state during Human-Robot Interaction. We look into the problem of complex continuous inte…
MuMMER: Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction in Public Spaces
Mary Ellen Foster, Bart Craenen, Amol Deshmukh +27
In the EU-funded MuMMER project, we have developed a social robot designed to interact naturally and flexibly with users in public spaces such as a shopping mall. We present the la…
Sympathy Begins with a Smile, Intelligence Begins with a Word: Use of Multimodal Features in Spoken Human-Robot Interaction
Jekaterina Novikova, Christian Dondrup, Ioannis Papaioannou +1
Recognition of social signals, from human facial expressions or prosody of speech, is a popular research topic in human-robot interaction studies. There is also a long line of rese…