8 papers
One Body, Two Minds: Variable Autonomy Approach for a Co-embodied Robotic Hand
Piotr Koczy, Yuchong Zhang, Danica Kragic +1
Assistive robotic systems face a fundamental trade-off: fully autonomous systems lack user agency, while fully user-controlled systems demand continuous cognitive effort. Existing…
Reframing Human-Robot Interaction Through Extended Reality: Unlocking Safer, Smarter, and More Empathic Interactions with Virtual Robots and Foundation Models
Yuchong Zhang, Yong Ma, Danica Kragic
This perspective reframes human-robot interaction (HRI) through extended reality (XR), arguing that virtual robots powered by large foundation models (FMs) can serve as cognitively…
Hybrid-Diffusion Models: Combining Open-loop Routines with Visuomotor Diffusion Policies
Jonne Van Haastregt, Bastian Orthmann, Michael C. Welle +2
Despite the fact that visuomotor-based policies obtained via imitation learning demonstrate good performances in complex manipulation tasks, they usually struggle to achieve the sa…
Personalizing Emotion-aware Conversational Agents? Exploring User Traits-driven Conversational Strategies for Enhanced Interaction
Yuchong Zhang, Yong Ma, Di Fu +3
Conversational agents (CAs) are increasingly embedded in daily life, yet their ability to navigate user emotions efficiently is still evolving. This study investigates how users wi…
FLAME: A Federated Learning Benchmark for Robotic Manipulation
Santiago Bou Betran, Alberta Longhini, Miguel Vasco +2
Recent progress in robotic manipulation has been fueled by large-scale datasets collected across diverse environments. Training robotic manipulation policies on these datasets is t…
Advancing User-Voice Interaction: Exploring Emotion-Aware Voice Assistants Through a Role-Swapping Approach
Yong Ma, Yuchong Zhang, Di Fu +3
As voice assistants (VAs) become increasingly integrated into daily life, the need for emotion-aware systems that can recognize and respond appropriately to user emotions has grown…