TY - JOUR T1 - A Socially Adaptable Framework for Human-Robot Interaction JF - Frontiers in Robotics and AI Y1 - 2020 A1 - Ana Tanevska A1 - Francesco Rea A1 - Giulio Sandini A1 - Lola Cañamero A1 - Alessandra Sciutti AB - In our everyday lives we regularly engage in complex, personalized, and adaptive interactions with our peers. To recreate the same kind of rich, human-like interactions, a social robot should be aware of our needs and affective states and continuously adapt its behavior to them. Our proposed solution is to have the robot learn how to select the behaviors that would maximize the pleasantness of the interaction for its peers. To make the robot autonomous in its decision making, this process could be guided by an internal motivation system. We wish to investigate how an adaptive robotic framework of this kind would function and personalize to different users. We also wish to explore whether the adaptability and personalization would bring any additional richness to the human-robot interaction (HRI), or whether it would instead bring uncertainty and unpredictability that would not be accepted by the robot's human peers. To this end, we designed a socially adaptive framework for the humanoid robot iCub. As a result, the robot perceives and reuses the affective and interactive signals from the person as input for the adaptation based on internal social motivation. We strive to investigate the value of the generated adaptation in our framework in the context of HRI. In particular, we compare how users will experience interaction with an adaptive versus a non-adaptive social robot. To address these questions, we propose a comparative interaction study with iCub whereby users act as the robot's caretaker, and iCub's social adaptation is guided by an internal comfort level that varies with the stimuli that iCub receives from its caretaker. We investigate and compare how iCub's internal dynamics would be perceived by people, both in a condition when iCub does not personalize its behavior to the person, and in a condition where it is instead adaptive. Finally, we establish the potential benefits that an adaptive framework could bring to the context of repeated interactions with a humanoid robot. VL - 7 UR - https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frobt.2020.00121 N1 - Download (Open Access) ER - TY - CONF T1 - SimianWorld – A Study of Social Organisation Using an Artificial Life Model T2 - Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013 Y1 - 2013 A1 - Sue Attwood A1 - Lola Cañamero A1 - René te Boekhorst ED - Pietro Liò ED - Orazio Miglino ED - Giuseppe Nicosia ED - Stefano Nolfi ED - Mario Pavone AB - In studies of social behaviour it is commonly assumed that individual complexity is the origin of intricate social interactions. In primates for example, social complexity is attributed to their intelligence and it is argued by many that the cognitive capacity of primates are especially manifest in the way they regulate their social relationships. Whereas the complex societies of non-human primates are considered to be as a direct result of their cognitive abilities this assumption is not made about social insects. In the absence of certain cognitive abilities their complex societies and structurally sophisticated nests are thought to arise from self-organisation. Since it is unlikely that cognitive capacities are all-or-nothing, usually integrating a range of mechanisms, it is possible that different species use similar cognitive mechanisms resulting in different behavioural outcomes. JF - Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013 PB - MIT Press CY - Taormina, Italy SN - 9780262317092 UR - https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/978-0-262-31709-2-ch090 N1 - Download (Open Access) ER - TY - CONF T1 - Should I worry about my stressed pregnant robot? T2 - Proc. 9th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (EpiRob 2009) Y1 - 2009 A1 - David Bowes A1 - Lola Cañamero A1 - Roderick G Adams A1 - Volker Steuber A1 - Davey, Neil ED - Lola Cañamero ED - Pierre-Yves Oudeyer ED - Christian Balkenius JF - Proc. 9th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (EpiRob 2009) T3 - Lund University Cognitive Studies PB - Lund University CY - Venice, Italy VL - 146 SN - 978-91-977-380-7-1 UR - http://www.lucs.lu.se/LUCS/146/epirob09.pdf ER - TY - CONF T1 - Strategies in the Evolution of Affect Related Displays and Recognition T2 - The Logic Of Artificial Life: Abstracting and Synthesizing the Principles of Living Systems; Proc. 6th German Workshop on Artificial Life 2004 Y1 - 2004 A1 - Robert Lowe A1 - Lola Cañamero A1 - Nehaniv, Chrystopher L A1 - Daniel Polani ED - Harald Schaub ED - Frank Detje ED - Ulrike Brüggermann AB - A more realistic alternative to the game theoretic approach to measuring the behavioural success of animal display can be represented by affect related expression and perception The current paper investigates the ways in which agents can use evolved affect related displays to manipulate the behaviour of affect perceiving rival agents to their survival advantage. JF - The Logic Of Artificial Life: Abstracting and Synthesizing the Principles of Living Systems; Proc. 6th German Workshop on Artificial Life 2004 PB - IOS Press CY - Bamberg, Germany ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships with Computers and Robots Y1 - 2002 ED - Kerstin Dautenhahn ED - Alan H Bond ED - Lola Cañamero ED - Bruce Edmonds PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers SN - 978-0-306-47373-9 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships with Computers and Robots T2 - Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships with Computers and Robots Y1 - 2002 A1 - Kerstin Dautenhahn A1 - Alan H Bond A1 - Lola Cañamero A1 - Bruce Edmonds ED - Kerstin Dautenhahn ED - Alan H Bond ED - Lola Cañamero ED - Bruce Edmonds AB - This introduction explains the motivation to edit this book and provides an overview of the chapters included in this book. Main themes and common threads that can be found across different chapters are identified that might help the reader in navigating the book. JF - Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships with Computers and Robots PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers SN - 978-0-306-47373-9 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Situated Cognition: A Challenge to Artificial Intelligence? T2 - Learning Sites: Social and Technological Contexts for Learning Y1 - 1999 A1 - D Cañamero A1 - Vincent Corruble ED - Joan Bliss ED - Roger Säljö ED - Paul Light JF - Learning Sites: Social and Technological Contexts for Learning PB - Elsevier SN - 978-0080433509 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Situated Learning in Autonomous Agents T2 - Learning Sites: Social and Technological Contexts for Learning Y1 - 1999 A1 - Bart de Boer A1 - D Cañamero ED - Joan Bliss ED - Roger Säljö ED - Paul Light JF - Learning Sites: Social and Technological Contexts for Learning PB - Elsevier SN - 978-0080433509 ER - TY - CONF T1 - Socially Emotional: Using Emotions to Ground Social Interaction T2 - Socially Intelligent Agents. Papers from the 1997 AAAI Fall Symposium Y1 - 1997 A1 - D Cañamero A1 - Walter Van de Velde ED - Kerstin Dautenhahn JF - Socially Intelligent Agents. Papers from the 1997 AAAI Fall Symposium PB - The AAAI Press ER -