5 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…
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…
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…