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JOIN: Anchor-Grasp-Conditioned Joining via Opposition, Inference, and Navigation for Bimanual Assistive Manipulation
Drake Moore, Matt Cheng, Xiang Zhi Tan +1
Assistive mobility and manipulation platforms have received increasing attention as a means of restoring independence to individuals with disabilities. While effective for many bas…
A Checklist for Deploying Robots in Public: Articulating Tacit Knowledge in the HRI Community
Claire Liang, Franziska Babel, Hannah Pelikan +2
Many of the challenges encountered in in-the-wild public deployments of robots remain undocumented despite sharing many common pitfalls. This creates a high barrier of entry and re…
"Meet My Sidekick!": Effects of Separate Identities and Control of a Single Robot in HRI
Drake Moore, Arushi Aggarwal, Emily Taylor +3
The presentation of a robot's capability and identity directly influences a human collaborator's perception and implicit trust in the robot. Unlike humans, a physical robot can sim…
Coherence-Driven Multimodal Safety Dialogue with Active Learning for Embodied Agents
Sabit Hassan, Hye-Young Chung, Xiang Zhi Tan +1
When assisting people in daily tasks, robots need to accurately interpret visual cues and respond effectively in diverse safety-critical situations, such as sharp objects on the fl…
Person Transfer in the Field: Examining Real World Sequential Human-Robot Interaction Between Two Robots
Xiang Zhi Tan, Elizabeth J. Carter, Aaron Steinfeld
With more robots being deployed in the world, users will likely interact with multiple robots sequentially when receiving services. In this paper, we describe an exploratory field…