8 papers
ARIS: Agentic and Relationship Intelligence System for Social Robots
Stavya Datta, Fucai Ke, Leimin Tian +1
Foundational models have advanced social robotics, enabling richer perception and communicative interaction with users. However, current systems still struggle with multi-turn enga…
Influence of Operator Expertise on Robot Supervision and Intervention
Yanran Jiang, Pavan Sikka, Leimin Tian +2
With increasing levels of robot autonomy, robots are increasingly being supervised by users with varying levels of robotics expertise. As the diversity of the user population incre…
Explaining Why Things Go Where They Go: Interpretable Constructs of Human Organizational Preferences
Emmanuel Fashae, Michael Burke, Leimin Tian +2
Robotic systems for household object rearrangement often rely on latent preference models inferred from human demonstrations. While effective at prediction, these models offer limi…
A Service Robot's Guide to Interacting with Busy Customers
Suraj Nukala, Meera Sushma, Leimin Tian +2
The growing use of service robots in hospitality highlights the need to understand how to effectively communicate with pre-occupied customers. This study investigates the efficacy…
CauSkelNet: Causal Representation Learning for Human Behaviour Analysis
Xingrui Gu, Chuyi Jiang, Erte Wang +5
Traditional machine learning methods for movement recognition often struggle with limited model interpretability and a lack of insight into human movement dynamics. This study intr…
Explaining Facial Expression Recognition
Sanjeev Nahulanthran, Leimin Tian, Dana KuliÄ +1
Facial expression recognition (FER) has emerged as a promising approach to the development of emotion-aware intelligent agents and systems. However, key challenges remain in utiliz…