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How Should I Pick a Foundation Model for My Robot? In Favor of a Community Evaluation Framework for Social Robots
Eric Nichols, Alva Markelius, Hatice Gunes
Researchers who seek to build social robot applications on foundation models are faced with a difficult question: how should we pick a model? Public leaderboards offer little guida…
Ain't Misbehavin' -- Using LLMs to Generate Expressive Robot Behavior in Conversations with the Tabletop Robot Haru
Zining Wang, Paul Reisert, Eric Nichols +1
Social robots aim to establish long-term bonds with humans through engaging conversation. However, traditional conversational approaches, reliant on scripted interactions, often fa…
Developing Autonomous Robot-Mediated Behavior Coaching Sessions with Haru
Matouš Jelínek, Eric Nichols, Randy Gomez
This study presents an empirical investigation into the design and impact of autonomous dialogues in human-robot interaction for behavior change coaching. We focus on the use of Ha…