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most citedUnderstandable Robots

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6 papers

cs.RO2025

Improving robot understanding using conversational AI: demonstration and feasibility study

Shikhar Kumar, Yael Edan

Explanations constitute an important aspect of successful human robot interactions and can enhance robot understanding. To improve the understanding of the robot, we have developed…

cs.RO2024

Levels of explanation -- implementation and evaluation of what and when for different time-sensitive tasks

Shikhar Kumar, Omer Keidar, Yael Edan

In this work, we focused on constructing and evaluating levels of explanation(LOE) that address two basic aspect of HRI: 1. What information should be communicated to the user by t…

cs.RO2024

The experience of humans' and robots' mutual (im)politeness in enacted service scenarios: An empirical study

Victor Kaptelinin, Suna Bensch, Thomas Hellström +2

The paper reports an empirical study of the effect of human treatment of a robot on the social perception of the robot's behavior. The study employed an enacted interaction between…

cs.RO2023

Can Robotic Experimenters help improve HRI Experiments? An Experimental Study

Dan R. Suissa, Shikhar Kumar, Yael Edan

To evaluate the design and skills of a robot or an algorithm for robotics, human-robot interaction user studies need to be performed. Classically, these studies are conducted by hu…

cs.RO2022★ 2 cited

Understandable Robots

Shikhar Kumar

Finally, the work will include an investigation of the contextual form of explanations. In this study, we will include a time-bounded scenario in which the different levels of unde…

cs.RO2021

Exploratory evaluation of politeness in human-robot interaction

Shikhar Kumar, Eliran Itzhak, Samuel Olatunji +4

Aiming to explore the impact of politeness on Human robot interaction, this study tested varying levels of politeness in a human robot collaborative table setting task. Polite beha…