collaborators

7 papers

cs.AI2025

Finding Uncommon Ground: A Human-Centered Model for Extrospective Explanations

Laura Spillner, Nima Zargham, Mihai Pomarlan +2

The need for explanations in AI has, by and large, been driven by the desire to increase the transparency of black-box machine learning models. However, such explanations, which fo…

cs.RO2025

Hanging Around: Cognitive Inspired Reasoning for Reactive Robotics

Mihai Pomarlan, Stefano De Giorgis, Rachel Ringe +2

Situationally-aware artificial agents operating with competence in natural environments face several challenges: spatial awareness, object affordance detection, dynamic changes and…

cs.RO2025

Bot Appétit! Exploring how Robot Morphology Shapes Perceived Affordances via a Mise en Place Scenario in a VR Kitchen

Rachel Ringe, Leandra Thiele, Mihai Pomarlan +4

This study explores which factors of the visual design of a robot may influence how humans would place it in a collaborative cooking scenario and how these features may influence t…

cs.RO2025

Generating Actionable Robot Knowledge Bases by Combining 3D Scene Graphs with Robot Ontologies

Giang Nguyen, Mihai Pomarlan, Sascha Jongebloed +3

In robotics, the effective integration of environmental data into actionable knowledge remains a significant challenge due to the variety and incompatibility of data formats common…

q-bio.NC2025

How Metacognitive Architectures Remember Their Own Thoughts: A Systematic Review

Robin Nolte, Mihai Pomarlan, Ayden Janssen +7

Background: Metacognition has gained significant attention for its potential to enhance autonomy and adaptability of artificial agents but remains a fragmented field: diverse theor…

q-bio.NC2025

Neuronal Correlates of Semantic Event Classes during Presentation of Complex Naturalistic Stimuli: Anatomical Patterns, Context-Sensitivity, and Potential Impact on shared Human-Robot Ontologies

Florian Ahrens, Mihai Pomarlan, Daniel Beßler +2

The present study forms part of a research project that aims to develop cognition-enabled robotic agents with environmental interaction capabilities close to human proficiency. Thi…