All Outputs (46)

Usability study of a novel triple-arm mixed-reality robot teleoperation system (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Sobhani, M., Smith, A., Giuliani, M., & Pipe, T. (2023). Usability study of a novel triple-arm mixed-reality robot teleoperation system. In IEEE 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) (217-223). https://doi.org/10.1109/ssrr56537.2022.10018630

The usability of a novel triple-arm mixed-reality robot teleoperation system is investigated. The system is developed to provide a sense of remote presence for the operator. Different types of interfaces and camera setups have been proposed previousl... Read More about Usability study of a novel triple-arm mixed-reality robot teleoperation system.

Haptic teleoperation goes wireless: Evaluation and benchmarking of a high-performance low-power wireless control technology (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Bolarinwa, J., Smith, A., Aijaz, A., Stanoev, A., Sooriyabandara, M., & Giuliani, M. (2022). Haptic teleoperation goes wireless: Evaluation and benchmarking of a high-performance low-power wireless control technology. In 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) (300-307). https://doi.org/10.1109/ssrr56537.2022.10018764

Communication delays and packet losses are commonly investigated issues in the area of robotic teleoperation. This paper investigates application of a novel low-power wireless control technology (GALLOP) in a haptic teleoperation scenario developed t... Read More about Haptic teleoperation goes wireless: Evaluation and benchmarking of a high-performance low-power wireless control technology.

Impact of resolution, colour, and motion on object identification in digital twins from robot sensor data (2022)
Journal Article
Bremner, P., & Giuliani, M. (2022). Impact of resolution, colour, and motion on object identification in digital twins from robot sensor data. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 9, Article 995342. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2022.995342

This paper makes a contribution to research on digital twins that are generated from robot sensor data. We present the results of an online user study in which 240 participants were tasked to identify real-world objects from robot point cloud data. I... Read More about Impact of resolution, colour, and motion on object identification in digital twins from robot sensor data.

User requirements for a robot teleoperation system for general medical examination (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Chirapornchai, C., Niyi-Odumosu, F., Giuliani, M., & Bremner, P. (2022). User requirements for a robot teleoperation system for general medical examination. In 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (858-863). https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900855

Thailand, as well as many other countries world-wide, is facing a shortage of medical staff. We purpose a solution to improve medical services in health centres: a robot teleoperation system to allow patients to consult with doctors from public hospi... Read More about User requirements for a robot teleoperation system for general medical examination.

Measuring visual social engagement from proxemics and gaze (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Webb, N., Giuliani, M., & Lemaignan, S. (2022). Measuring visual social engagement from proxemics and gaze. In 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (757-762). https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900801

When we approach a group, there is an exchange of a multitude of verbal or non-verbal social signals to indicate that we are looking to interact. We continue to share these signals throughout the interaction to portray our thoughts and motivations. W... Read More about Measuring visual social engagement from proxemics and gaze.

Demo: Untethered haptic teleoperation for nuclear decommissioning using a low-power wireless control technology (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Bolarinwa, J., Smith, A., Aijaz, A., Stanoev, A., & Giuliani, M. (2022). Demo: Untethered haptic teleoperation for nuclear decommissioning using a low-power wireless control technology. In IEEE INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS). https://doi.org/10.1109/infocomwkshps54753.2022.9798082

Haptic teleoperation is typically realized through wired networking technologies (e.g., Ethernet) which guarantee performance of control loops closed over the communication medium, particularly in terms of latency, jitter, and reliability. This demon... Read More about Demo: Untethered haptic teleoperation for nuclear decommissioning using a low-power wireless control technology.

Physiological data measurement in digital manufacturing (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Agrawal, S., Chong, J., Yacoub, A. A., Giuliani, M., Jafari, A., & Etoundi, A. (2022). Physiological data measurement in digital manufacturing. In 2021 24th International Conference on Mechatronics Technology (ICMT). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMT53429.2021.9687200

As industry is moving towards a new digital rev-olution, identifying workers' mental and physical status is key to improved productivity in a digital manufacturing scenario. The main objective here is to provide an overview of sensing technologies in... Read More about Physiological data measurement in digital manufacturing.

Mutual shaping in swarm robotics: User studies in fire and rescue, storage organization, and bridge inspection (2020)
Journal Article
Carrillo-Zapata, D., Milner, E., Hird, J., Tzoumas, G., Vardanega, P. J., Sooriyabandara, M., …Hauert, S. (2020). Mutual shaping in swarm robotics: User studies in fire and rescue, storage organization, and bridge inspection. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 7, Article 53. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2020.00053

Many real-world applications have been suggested in the swarm robotics literature. However, there is a general lack of understanding of what needs to be done for robot swarms to be useful and trusted by users in reality. This paper aims to investigat... Read More about Mutual shaping in swarm robotics: User studies in fire and rescue, storage organization, and bridge inspection.

Examining profiles for robotic risk assessment: Does a robot's approach to risk affect user trust? (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Bridgwater, T., Giuliani, M., van Maris, A., Baker, G., Winfield, A., & Pipe, T. (2020). Examining profiles for robotic risk assessment: Does a robot's approach to risk affect user trust?. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. , (23-31). https://doi.org/10.1145/3319502.3374804

© 2020 Association for Computing Machinery. As autonomous robots move towards ubiquity, the need for robots to make decisions under risk that are trustworthy becomes increasingly significant; both to aid acceptance and to fully utilise their autonomo... Read More about Examining profiles for robotic risk assessment: Does a robot's approach to risk affect user trust?.

The effect of virtual reality control of a robotic surrogate on presence and social presence in comparison to telecommunications software (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Mackey, B. A., Bremner, P. A., & Giuliani, M. (2020). The effect of virtual reality control of a robotic surrogate on presence and social presence in comparison to telecommunications software. In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '20 Companion) (349-351). https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378268

Telecommunication software is often used to tackle social isolation in those with restricted mobility, but lacks high-level interactions found in face-to-face conversation. This study investigated the use of an immersive control system for a robotic... Read More about The effect of virtual reality control of a robotic surrogate on presence and social presence in comparison to telecommunications software.

Immersive control of a robot surrogate for users in palliative care (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Mackey, B. A., Bremner, P. A., & Giuliani, M. (2020). Immersive control of a robot surrogate for users in palliative care. In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '20 Companion) (585-587). https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3377445

Quality of life (QoL) is especially important for palliative care patients, who can be at risk of mental health issues. This project aims to design and implement an immersive control system for a robotic surrogate, that allows users to interact as na... Read More about Immersive control of a robot surrogate for users in palliative care.

User-centred design and evaluation of a tele-operated echocardiography robot (2020)
Journal Article
Giuliani, M., Szczęśniak-Stańczyk, D., Mirnig, N., Stollnberger, G., Szyszko, M., Stańczyk, B., & Tscheligi, M. (2020). User-centred design and evaluation of a tele-operated echocardiography robot. Health and Technology, 10, 649-655. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-019-00399-0

We present the collected findings of a user-centred approach for developing a tele-operated robot for remote echocardiography examinations. During the three-year development of the robot, we involved users in all development stages of the robot, to i... Read More about User-centred design and evaluation of a tele-operated echocardiography robot.

Static and temporal differences in social signals between error-free and erroneous situations in human-robot collaboration (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Cahya, D. E., Ramakrishnan, R., & Giuliani, M. (2019). Static and temporal differences in social signals between error-free and erroneous situations in human-robot collaboration. In M. A. Salichs, S. S. Ge, E. I. Barakova, J. Cabibihan, A. R. Wagner, Ά. Castro-González, & H. He (Eds.), Social Robotics. , (189-199). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_18

The capability of differentiating error situations from error-free situations in human-robot collaboration is a mandatory skill for collaborative robots. One of the variables that robots can analyse to differentiate both situations are the social sig... Read More about Static and temporal differences in social signals between error-free and erroneous situations in human-robot collaboration.

Development of a Debris Clearance Vehicle for Limited Access Environments (2019)
Presentation / Conference
West, C., Cheah, W., Rajasekaran, V., Stolkin, R., West, A., Arvin, F., …Lennox, B. (2019, January). Development of a Debris Clearance Vehicle for Limited Access Environments. Paper presented at 2nd UK-RAS ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS CONFERENCE, Loughborough, 2019, Loughborough, UK

A debris clearance robot for extreme environments (2019)
Journal Article
West, C., Giuliani, M., Lennox, B., Cheah, W., Arvin, F., West, A., & Watson, S. (2019). A debris clearance robot for extreme environments. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 11649 LNAI, 148-159. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23807-0_13

© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. The need for nuclear decommissioning is increasing globally, as power stations and other facilities utilising nuclear reaches the end of their operational life. Currently the majority of decommissioning tasks ar... Read More about A debris clearance robot for extreme environments.

Confidence in uncertainty: Error cost and commitment in early speech hypotheses (2018)
Journal Article
Loth, S., Jettka, K., Giuliani, M., Kopp, S., & de Ruiter, J. (2018). Confidence in uncertainty: Error cost and commitment in early speech hypotheses. PLoS ONE, 13(8), Article e0201516. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201516

© 2018 Loth et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credi... Read More about Confidence in uncertainty: Error cost and commitment in early speech hypotheses.

Towards a cognitive architecture incorporating human feedback for interactive collaborative robots (2018)
Journal Article
Cahya, D. E., & Giuliani, M. (2018). Towards a cognitive architecture incorporating human feedback for interactive collaborative robots. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 10965, 486-488. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96728-8

The development of new collaborative robotic platforms opens the new possibility of human-robot collaborative scenarios provided that they are controlled by excellent control programs. Interactive collaborative robots need to be autonomous and posses... Read More about Towards a cognitive architecture incorporating human feedback for interactive collaborative robots.

Head and shoulders: Automatic error detection in human-robot interaction (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Trung, P., Giuliani, M., Miksch, M., Stollnberger, G., Stadler, S., Mirnig, N., & Tscheligi, M. (2017, November). Head and shoulders: Automatic error detection in human-robot interaction. Paper presented at 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Glasgow, Scotland

We describe a novel method for automatic detection of errors in human-robot interactions. Our approach is to detect errors based on the classification of head and shoulder movements of humans who are interacting with erroneous robots. We conducted a... Read More about Head and shoulders: Automatic error detection in human-robot interaction.

Automatically Classifying User Engagement for Dynamic Multi-party Human–Robot Interaction (2017)
Journal Article
Foster, M. E., Gaschler, A., & Giuliani, M. (2017). Automatically Classifying User Engagement for Dynamic Multi-party Human–Robot Interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics, 9(5), 659-674. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-017-0414-y

© 2017, The Author(s). A robot agent designed to engage in real-world human–robot joint action must be able to understand the social states of the human users it interacts with in order to behave appropriately. In particular, in a dynamic public spac... Read More about Automatically Classifying User Engagement for Dynamic Multi-party Human–Robot Interaction.

To err is robot: How humans assess and act toward an erroneous social robot (2017)
Journal Article
Mirnig, N., Stollnberger, G., Miksch, M., Stadler, S., Giuliani, M., & Tscheligi, M. (2017). To err is robot: How humans assess and act toward an erroneous social robot. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 4(MAY), 21. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2017.00021

© 2017 Mirnig, Stollnberger, Miksch, Stadler, Giuliani and Tscheligi. We conducted a user study for which we purposefully programmed faulty behavior into a robot's routine. It was our aim to explore if participants rate the faulty robot different fro... Read More about To err is robot: How humans assess and act toward an erroneous social robot.