Beat gesture generation rules for human-robot interaction

Bremner, P.; Pipe, A. G.; Fraser, M.; Subramanian, S.; Melhuish, C.

doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2009.5326136

Hear here: Sonification as a design strategy for robot teleoperation using virtual reality (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Simmons, J., Bown, A., Bremner, P., McIntosh, V., & Mitchell, T. J. (2023). Hear here: Sonification as a design strategy for robot teleoperation using virtual reality.

This paper introduces a novel methodology for the sonification of data, and shares the results of a usability study, putting the method- ology into practice within an industrial use case. Working with partners at Sellafield nuclear facility, we explo... Read More about Hear here: Sonification as a design strategy for robot teleoperation using virtual reality.

Usability of an immersive control system for a humanoid robot surrogate (2022)
Conference Proceeding
MacKey, B., Bremner, P., & Giuliani, M. (2022). Usability of an immersive control system for a humanoid robot surrogate. In 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (678-685). https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900587

Social isolation is an issue that effects many people, especially those from ethic minorities, LGBTQIA+ communities, the elderly, those in long-term healthcare, and those living with life-limiting illnesses. It has become increasingly evident during... Read More about Usability of an immersive control system for a humanoid robot surrogate.

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.

Assessing and addressing ethical risk from anthropomorphism and deception in socially assistive robots (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Winkle, K., Caleb-Solly, P., Leonards, U., Turton, A., & Bremner, P. (2021). Assessing and addressing ethical risk from anthropomorphism and deception in socially assistive robots. https://doi.org/10.1145/3434073.3444666

In this paper we apply the recent concept of robot Ethical Risk Assessment to an exemplar Socially Assistive Robot (SAR); specifically considering ethical risks posed by anthropomorphism in this context. We draw on two complimentary studies to demons... Read More about Assessing and addressing ethical risk from anthropomorphism and deception in socially assistive robots.

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.

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.

In-situ learning from a domain expert for real world socially assistive robot deployment (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Winkle, K., Lemaignan, S., Caleb-Solly, P., Bremner, P., Turton, A., & Leonards, U. (2020). In-situ learning from a domain expert for real world socially assistive robot deployment. . https://doi.org/10.15607/RSS.2020.XVI.059

The effectiveness of Socially Assistive Robots (SAR) relies on their ability to motivate particular user behaviours, e.g. engagement with a task, requiring complex social interactions tailored to the needs and motivations of the user. Professionals f... Read More about In-situ learning from a domain expert for real world socially assistive robot deployment.

Effective persuasion strategies for socially assistive robots (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Winkle, K., Lemaignan, S., Caleb-Solly, P., Turton, A., Leonards, U., & Bremner, P. (2019). Effective persuasion strategies for socially assistive robots. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference (277-285). https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2019.8673313

In this paper we present the results of an experimental study investigating the application of human persuasive strategies to a social robot. We demonstrate that robot displays of goodwill and similarity to the participant significantly increased rob... Read More about Effective persuasion strategies for socially assistive robots.

Humanoid robot avatars: An 'in the wild' usability study (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Bremner, P., Koschate, M., & Levine, M. (2016). Humanoid robot avatars: An 'in the wild' usability study. In 2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (624-629). https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745183

In this paper, we report a breaching study to explore the use of a tele-operated humanoid avatar from both the perspective of the robot operator and the perspective of interlocutors. Humanoid robot avatars provide capabilities that video conferencing... Read More about Humanoid robot avatars: An 'in the wild' usability study.

Speech and Gesture Emphasis Effects for Robotic and Human Communicators: A Direct Comparison (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Bremner, P., & Leonards, U. (2015). Speech and Gesture Emphasis Effects for Robotic and Human Communicators: A Direct Comparison. In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - HRI '15 (255-262). https://doi.org/10.1145/2696454.2696496

© 2015 ACM. Emphasis, by means of either pitch accents or beat gestures (rhythmic co-verbal gestures with no semantic meaning), has been shown to serve two main purposes in human communication: syntactic disambiguation and salience. To use beat gestu... Read More about Speech and Gesture Emphasis Effects for Robotic and Human Communicators: A Direct Comparison.

Cooperative tabletop working for humans and humanoid robots: Group interaction with an avatar (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Hossen Mamode, H. Z., Bremner, P., Pipe, A. G., & Carse, B. (2013). Cooperative tabletop working for humans and humanoid robots: Group interaction with an avatar. In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (184-190). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630574

This paper represents the first steps in investigating issues emerging from a scenario where a robot interacts with a group of people around an interactive tabletop. In particular, the impact that a humanoid robot, acting as an avatar for a remote me... Read More about Cooperative tabletop working for humans and humanoid robots: Group interaction with an avatar.

Multi-objective optimisation of cell-array circuit evolution (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Bremner, P., Samie, M., Pipe, A. G., & Tyrrell, A. (2011). Multi-objective optimisation of cell-array circuit evolution. In 2011 IEEE Congress of Evolutionary Computation (CEC) (440-446). https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2011.5949651

In this paper we have investigated the efficacy of applying multi-objective optimisation to Cartesian genetic programming (CGP) when used for evolution of cell-array configurations. A cell-array is a proposed type of custom FPGA, where digital circui... Read More about Multi-objective optimisation of cell-array circuit evolution.

Conversational gestures in human-robot interaction (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Bremner, P., Pipe, A., Melhuish, C., Fraser, M., & Subramanian, S. (2009). Conversational gestures in human-robot interaction. In 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (1645-1649). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346903

The human sciences have demonstrated that gesture is a critical element of human communication. While existing graphical solutions are appropriate for virtual agents, solving arm trajectories for physically embodied robots requires that we consider t... Read More about Conversational gestures in human-robot interaction.

Beat gesture generation rules for human-robot interaction (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Bremner, P., Pipe, A. G., Fraser, M., Subramanian, S., & Melhuish, C. (2009). Beat gesture generation rules for human-robot interaction. In Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (1029-1034). https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2009.5326136

In order for anthropomorphic robots to communicate with people in a human-like way they need to produce gestures along with speech. Beat gestures are a key category of gestures, accompanying emphasis and timing of talk. The standard approach for auto... Read More about Beat gesture generation rules for human-robot interaction.

All Outputs (14)