5 papers
Robots That Take Initiative: A Framework for Building and Evaluating Proactive Robots
Maithili Patel, Sonia Chernova
Effective robot assistance beyond narrow roles and repetitive tasks requires robots to be proactive - to decide what needs to be done rather than waiting to be told. While proactiv…
Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Advancing Artificial Intelligence through Theory of Mind
Mouad Abrini, Omri Abend, Dina Acklin +105
This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the Workshop on Advancing Artificial Intelligence through Theory of Mind held at AAAI 2025 in Philadelphia US on 3rd March 2…
ADAPT: Actively Discovering and Adapting to Preferences for any Task
Maithili Patel, Xavier Puig, Ruta Desai +4
Assistive agents should be able to perform under-specified long-horizon tasks while respecting user preferences. We introduce Actively Discovering and Adapting to Preferences for a…
Bi-Directional Mental Model Reconciliation for Human-Robot Interaction with Large Language Models
Nina Moorman, Michelle Zhao, Matthew B. Luebbers +5
In human-robot interactions, human and robot agents maintain internal mental models of their environment, their shared task, and each other. The accuracy of these representations d…
A Model-Agnostic Approach for Semantically Driven Disambiguation in Human-Robot Interaction
Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Maithili Patel, Weiyu Liu +2
Ambiguities are inevitable in human-robot interaction, especially when a robot follows user instructions in a large, shared space. For example, if a user asks the robot to find an…