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
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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
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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
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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
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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 -