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20182022
most citedExplain Yourself: A Natural Language Interface for Scrutable Autonomous Robots

18 citations · 56 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Exploring Multi-Modal Representations for Ambiguity Detection & Coreference Resolution in the SIMMC 2.0 Challenge

Javier Chiyah-Garcia, Alessandro Suglia, José Lopes +2

Anaphoric expressions, such as pronouns and referential descriptions, are situated with respect to the linguistic context of prior turns, as well as, the immediate visual environme…

cs.CL2020

The Lab vs The Crowd: An Investigation into Data Quality for Neural Dialogue Models

José Lopes, Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, Helen Hastie

Challenges around collecting and processing quality data have hampered progress in data-driven dialogue models. Previous approaches are moving away from costly, resource-intensive…

cs.CY2020★ 17 cited

Robots in the Danger Zone: Exploring Public Perception through Engagement

David A. Robb, Muneeb I. Ahmad, Carlo Tiseo +14

Public perceptions of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI) are important in the acceptance, uptake, government regulation and research funding of this technology. Recent rese…

cs.HC2020★ 2 cited

CRWIZ: A Framework for Crowdsourcing Real-Time Wizard-of-Oz Dialogues

Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, José Lopes, Xingkun Liu +1

Large corpora of task-based and open-domain conversational dialogues are hugely valuable in the field of data-driven dialogue systems. Crowdsourcing platforms, such as Amazon Mecha…

cs.HC2020

Natural Language Interaction to Facilitate Mental Models of Remote Robots

Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, José Lopes, Helen Hastie

Increasingly complex and autonomous robots are being deployed in real-world environments with far-reaching consequences. High-stakes scenarios, such as emergency response or offsho…

cs.AI2019

Towards Self-Explainable Cyber-Physical Systems

Mathias Blumreiter, Joel Greenyer, Francisco Javier Chiyah Garcia +5

With the increasing complexity of CPSs, their behavior and decisions become increasingly difficult to understand and comprehend for users and other stakeholders. Our vision is to b…

cs.HC2018

A Natural Language Interface with Relayed Acoustic Communications for Improved Command and Control of AUVs

David A. Robb, Jonatan Scharff Willners, Nicolas Valeyrie +6

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are being tasked with increasingly complex missions. The acoustic communications required for AUVs are, by the nature of the medium, low bandw…

cs.AI2018★ 16 cited

MIRIAM: A Multimodal Chat-Based Interface for Autonomous Systems

Helen Hastie, Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, David A. Robb +2

We present MIRIAM (Multimodal Intelligent inteRactIon for Autonomous systeMs), a multimodal interface to support situation awareness of autonomous vehicles through chat-based inter…

cs.CL2018★ 18 cited

Explain Yourself: A Natural Language Interface for Scrutable Autonomous Robots

Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, David A. Robb, Xingkun Liu +3

Autonomous systems in remote locations have a high degree of autonomy and there is a need to explain what they are doing and why in order to increase transparency and maintain trus…