3 papers
cs.RO2026
Initiation Safety: A Missing Dimension in Generalist-Robot Safety
Zhijin Meng, Francisco Cruz
Safety for generalist robots is usually discussed in terms of motion or dialogue. We argue a third question is missing: should the robot take its first hard-to-undo social action a…
cs.HC2025
PERCY: Personal Emotional Robotic Conversational System
Zhijin Meng, Mohammed Althubyani, Shengyuan Xie +4
Traditional rule-based conversational robots, constrained by predefined scripts and static response mappings, fundamentally lack adaptability for personalized, long-term human inte…
cs.HC2024
MERCI: Multimodal Emotional and peRsonal Conversational Interactions Dataset
Mohammed Althubyani, Zhijin Meng, Shengyuan Xie +5
The integration of conversational agents into our daily lives has become increasingly common, yet many of these agents cannot engage in deep interactions with humans. Despite this,…