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Ice-Breakers, Turn-Takers and Fun-Makers: Exploring Robots for Groups with Teenagers
Sarah Gillet, Katie Winkle, Giulia Belgiovine +1
Successful, enjoyable group interactions are important in public and personal contexts, especially for teenagers whose peer groups are important for self-identity and self-esteem.…
What Can You Say to a Robot? Capability Communication Leads to More Natural Conversations
Merle M. Reimann, Koen V. Hindriks, Florian A. Kunneman +3
When encountering a robot in the wild, it is not inherently clear to human users what the robot's capabilities are. When encountering misunderstandings or problems in spoken intera…
User Study Exploring the Role of Explanation of Failures by Robots in Human Robot Collaboration Tasks
Parag Khanna, Elmira Yadollahi, Mårten Björkman +2
Despite great advances in what robots can do, they still experience failures in human-robot collaborative tasks due to high randomness in unstructured human environments. Moreover,…
Robot Duck Debugging: Can Attentive Listening Improve Problem Solving?
Maria Teresa Parreira, Sarah Gillet, Iolanda Leite
While thinking aloud has been reported to positively affect problem-solving, the effects of the presence of an embodied entity (e.g., a social robot) to whom words can be directed…
Interactive Disambiguation for Behavior Tree Execution
Matteo Iovino, Fethiye Irmak Doğan, Iolanda Leite +1
In recent years, robots are used in an increasing variety of tasks, especially by small- and medium- sized enterprises. These tasks are usually fast-changing, they have a collabora…
Mechanical Chameleons: Evaluating the effects of a social robot's non-verbal behavior on social influence
Patrik Jonell, Anna Deichler, Ilaria Torre +2
In this paper we present a pilot study which investigates how non-verbal behavior affects social influence in social robots. We also present a modular system which is capable of co…