4 papers
Measuring "Success" In the Transition from Pre- to Post-LLM Conversational Agents through the Lens of Interaction & Explanations for Older Adults
Tamara Zubatiy, Niharika Mathur, Reina Chan +5
Conversational agents (CAs) for older adults have moved through at least two distinct eras, split by the emergence of large language models (LLMs) at the end of 2022. The first era…
Remind Me To Check The Stove Before I Leave The House: Authoring Personalized Context-Aware Smart Home Reminders Using Everyday Language
Reina Szeyi Chan, Sujendra Jayant Gharat, Maya Lampi +3
Reminder systems commonly rely on fixed schedules, location triggers, or simple rules, limiting their ability to leverage the rich sensing capabilities of modern smart homes. A key…
TRACE: Temporal Reasoning over Context and Evidence for Activity Recognition in Smart Homes
Yingtian Shi, Abivishaq Balasubramanian, Jessica Herring +7
Human activity recognition (HAR) in smart homes remains challenging because many daily activities exhibit similar local sensor patterns, while minimally intrusive sensing provides…
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…