7 papers
What Robots Do Matters More Than What They Look Like: Task Context Shapes Trust in Educational HRI
Anna-Maria Velentza, Konstantina Nikou, Anne-Gwenn Bosser +1
Socially assistive robots (SARs) are increasingly deployed in educational and information-sharing contexts, supported by advances in large language models that enable fluent real-t…
Humor Style Drives Laughter, Topic Shapes Acceptability: Evaluating Bilingual Personal and Political Robot-Delivered AI Jokes
Anna-Maria Velentza, Anne-Gwenn Bosser
Humor plays a central role in human social relationships, and recent advances in computational humor create new opportunities for integrating humor into human-robot interaction (HR…
GraSP-VLA: Graph-based Symbolic Action Representation for Long-Horizon Planning with VLA Policies
Maëlic Neau, Zoe Falomir, Paulo E. Santos +2
Deploying autonomous robots that can learn new skills from demonstrations is an important challenge of modern robotics. Existing solutions often apply end-to-end imitation learning…
What killed the cat? Towards a logical formalization of curiosity (and suspense, and surprise) in narratives
Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, Benjamin Callac +1
We provide a unified framework in which the three emotions at the heart of narrative tension (curiosity, suspense and surprise) are formalized. This framework is built on nonmonoto…
REACT: Real-time Efficiency and Accuracy Compromise for Tradeoffs in Scene Graph Generation
Maëlic Neau, Paulo E. Santos, Anne-Gwenn Bosser +2
Scene Graph Generation (SGG) is a task that encodes visual relationships between objects in images as graph structures. SGG shows significant promise as a foundational component fo…
Fine-Grained is Too Coarse: A Novel Data-Centric Approach for Efficient Scene Graph Generation
Neau Maëlic, Paulo E. Santos, Anne-Gwenn Bosser +1
Learning to compose visual relationships from raw images in the form of scene graphs is a highly challenging task due to contextual dependencies, but it is essential in computer vi…
Commonsense Reasoning for Identifying and Understanding the Implicit Need of Help and Synthesizing Assistive Actions
Maëlic Neau, Paulo Santos, Anne-Gwenn Bosser +2
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is an emerging subfield of service robotics. While most existing approaches rely on explicit signals (i.e. voice, gesture) to engage, current literatu…