4 papers
Learning secondary tool affordances of human partners using iCub robot's egocentric data
Bosong Ding, Erhan Oztop, Giacomo Spigler +1
Objects, in particular tools, provide several action possibilities to the agents that can act on them, which are generally associated with the term of affordances. A tool is typica…
Imitation of human motion achieves natural head movements for humanoid robots in an active-speaker detection task
Bosong Ding, Murat Kirtay, Giacomo Spigler
Head movements are crucial for social human-human interaction. They can transmit important cues (e.g., joint attention, speaker detection) that cannot be achieved with verbal inter…
From Human to Robot Interactions: A Circular Approach towards Trustworthy Social Robots
Anna L. Lange, Murat Kirtay, Verena V. Hafner
Human trust research uncovered important catalysts for trust building between interaction partners such as appearance or cognitive factors. The introduction of robots into social i…
Challenges in Designing Teacher Robots with Motivation Based Gestures
Hae Seon Yun, Volha Taliaronak, Murat Kirtay +5
Humanoid robots are increasingly being integrated into learning contexts to assist teaching and learning. However, challenges remain how to design and incorporate such robots in an…