7 papers
ARIS: Agentic and Relationship Intelligence System for Social Robots
Stavya Datta, Fucai Ke, Leimin Tian +1
Foundational models have advanced social robotics, enabling richer perception and communicative interaction with users. However, current systems still struggle with multi-turn enga…
Explaining Why Things Go Where They Go: Interpretable Constructs of Human Organizational Preferences
Emmanuel Fashae, Michael Burke, Leimin Tian +2
Robotic systems for household object rearrangement often rely on latent preference models inferred from human demonstrations. While effective at prediction, these models offer limi…
A Service Robot's Guide to Interacting with Busy Customers
Suraj Nukala, Meera Sushma, Leimin Tian +2
The growing use of service robots in hospitality highlights the need to understand how to effectively communicate with pre-occupied customers. This study investigates the efficacy…
A Framework for Dynamic Situational Awareness in Human Robot Teams: An Interview Study
Hashini Senaratne, Leimin Tian, Pavan Sikka +4
In human-robot teams, human situational awareness is the operator's conscious knowledge of the team's states, actions, plans and their environment. Appropriate human situational aw…
Explaining Facial Expression Recognition
Sanjeev Nahulanthran, Leimin Tian, Dana Kulić +1
Facial expression recognition (FER) has emerged as a promising approach to the development of emotion-aware intelligent agents and systems. However, key challenges remain in utiliz…
"I think you need help! Here's why": Understanding the Effect of Explanations on Automatic Facial Expression Recognition
Sanjeev Nahulanthran, Mor Vered, Leimin Tian +1
Facial expression recognition (FER) has emerged as a promising approach to the development of emotion-aware intelligent systems. The performance of FER in multiple domains is conti…