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A Grounded Observer Framework for Establishing Guardrails for Foundation Models in Socially Sensitive Domains
Rebecca Ramnauth, Dražen Brščić, Brian Scassellati
As foundation models increasingly permeate sensitive domains such as healthcare, finance, and mental health, ensuring their behavior meets desired outcomes and social expectations…
More than Chit-Chat: Developing Robots for Small-Talk Interactions
Rebecca Ramnauth, Dražen Brščić, Brian Scassellati
Beyond mere formality, small talk plays a pivotal role in social dynamics, serving as a verbal handshake for building rapport and understanding. For conversational AI and social ro…
Sequential Discrete Action Selection via Blocking Conditions and Resolutions
Liam Merz Hoffmeister, Brian Scassellati, Daniel Rakita
In this work, we introduce a strategy that frames the sequential action selection problem for robots in terms of resolving \textit{blocking conditions}, i.e., situations that imped…
REACT: Two Datasets for Analyzing Both Human Reactions and Evaluative Feedback to Robots Over Time
Kate Candon, Nicholas C. Georgiou, Helen Zhou +4
Recent work in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) has shown that robots can leverage implicit communicative signals from users to understand how they are being perceived during interact…