5 papers
From Conversation to Orchestration: HCI Challenges and Opportunities in Interactive Multi-Agentic Systems
Sarah Schömbs, Yan Zhang, Jorge Goncalves +1
Recent advances in multi-agentic systems (e.g. AutoGen, OpenAI Swarm) allow users to interact with a group of specialised AI agents rather than a single general-purpose agent. Desp…
Can you pass that tool?: Implications of Indirect Speech in Physical Human-Robot Collaboration
Yan Zhang, Tharaka Sachintha Ratnayake, Cherie Sew +3
Indirect speech acts (ISAs) are a natural pragmatic feature of human communication, allowing requests to be conveyed implicitly while maintaining subtlety and flexibility. Although…
Implicit Communication of Contextual Information in Human-Robot Collaboration
Yan Zhang
Implicit communication is crucial in human-robot collaboration (HRC), where contextual information, such as intentions, is conveyed as implicatures, forming a natural part of human…
ROSAnnotator: A Web Application for ROSBag Data Analysis in Human-Robot Interaction
Yan Zhang, Haoqi Li, Ramtin Tabatabaei +1
Human-robot interaction (HRI) is an interdisciplinary field that utilises both quantitative and qualitative methods. While ROSBags, a file format within the Robot Operating System…
OfficeMate: Pilot Evaluation of an Office Assistant Robot
Jiahe Pan, Sarah Schömbs, Yan Zhang +3
Office Assistant Robots (OARs) offer a promising solution to proactively provide in-situ support to enhance employee well-being and productivity in office spaces. We introduce Offi…