All Outputs (13)

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

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.

Industrial human-robot interaction: Creating personas for augmented reality supported robot control and teaching (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Stadler, S., Mirnig, N., Giuliani, M., Tscheligi, M., Materna, Z., & Kapinus, M. (2017, March). Industrial human-robot interaction: Creating personas for augmented reality supported robot control and teaching. Paper presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2017, Vienna, Austria

In strong cooperation with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), we research the simplification of industrial robot online-programming. For that, we extend existing programming interfaces with augmented reality (AR) technology. We proactively us... Read More about Industrial human-robot interaction: Creating personas for augmented reality supported robot control and teaching.

Elements of humor: How humans perceive verbal and non-verbal aspects of humorous robot behavior (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Mirnig, N., Stollnberger, G., Giuliani, M., & Tscheligi, M. (2017, March). Elements of humor: How humans perceive verbal and non-verbal aspects of humorous robot behavior. Paper presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2017, Vienna, Austria

We performed a preliminary online survey to explore if verbal and non-verbal robot humor elements influence how humans rate a robot's funniness. The video-based survey comprised four conditions, each showing a short clip of a NAO robot in a receptio... Read More about Elements of humor: How humans perceive verbal and non-verbal aspects of humorous robot behavior.

Using persona, scenario, and use case to develop a human-robot augmented reality collaborative workspace (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Materna, Z., Kapinus, M., Beran, V., Smrž, P., Giuliani, M., Mirnig, N., …Tscheligi, M. (2017, March). Using persona, scenario, and use case to develop a human-robot augmented reality collaborative workspace. Paper presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2017, Vienna, Austria

Up to date, methods from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) have not been widely adopted in the development of Human-Robot Interaction systems (HRI). In this paper, we describe a system prototype and a use case. The prototype is an augmented reality-ba... Read More about Using persona, scenario, and use case to develop a human-robot augmented reality collaborative workspace.

Tablet-based augmented reality in the factory: Influence of knowledge in computer programming on robot teaching tasks (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Kain, K. S., Stadler, S., Giuliani, M., Mirnig, N., Stollnberger, G., & Tscheligi, M. (2017, March). Tablet-based augmented reality in the factory: Influence of knowledge in computer programming on robot teaching tasks. Paper presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2017, Vienna, Austria

We investigate whether a user’s background in computer programming has an influence on user’s mental workload, when using a tablet-based augmented reality robot control interface that visualizes task-based information. For this purpose we conducted a... Read More about Tablet-based augmented reality in the factory: Influence of knowledge in computer programming on robot teaching tasks.

An RGB-D based social behavior interpretation system for a humanoid social robot (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Zaraki, A., Giuliani, M., Dehkordi, M. B., Mazzei, D., D'ursi, A., & Rossi, D. D. (2014, October). An RGB-D based social behavior interpretation system for a humanoid social robot. Paper presented at 2nd RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM 2014), Tehran, Iran

We used a new method called “Ghost-in-the-Machine” (GiM) to investigate social interactions with a robotic bartender taking orders for drinks and serving them. Using the GiM paradigm allowed us to identify how human participants recognize the intenti... Read More about An RGB-D based social behavior interpretation system for a humanoid social robot.

How can I help you? Comparing engagement classification strategies for a robot bartender (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Foster, M. E., Gaschler, A., & Giuliani, M. (2013, December). How can I help you? Comparing engagement classification strategies for a robot bartender. Paper presented at 15th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2013), Sydney, Australia

A robot agent existing in the physical world must be able to understand the social states of the human users it interacts with in order to respond appropriately. We compared two implemented methods for estimating the engagement state of customers for... Read More about How can I help you? Comparing engagement classification strategies for a robot bartender.

Two people walk into a bar: Dynamic multi-party social interaction with a robot agent (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Foster, M. E., Gaschler, A., Giuliani, M., Isard, A., Pateraki, M., & Petrick, R. P. A. (2012, October). Two people walk into a bar: Dynamic multi-party social interaction with a robot agent. Paper presented at 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2012), California, USA

We introduce a humanoid robot bartender that is capable of dealing with multiple customers in a dynamic, multi-party social setting. The robot system incorporates state-of-the-art components for computer vision, linguistic processing, state managemen... Read More about Two people walk into a bar: Dynamic multi-party social interaction with a robot agent.

Modelling state of interaction from head poses for social human-robot interaction (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Gaschler, A., Huth, K., Giuliani, M., Kessler, I., de Ruiter, J., & Knoll, A. (2012, March). Modelling state of interaction from head poses for social human-robot interaction. Paper presented at Gaze in Human-Robot Interaction Workshop held at the 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2012), Boston, MA, USA

In this publication, we analyse how humans use head pose in various states of an interaction, in both human-human and human-robot observations. Our scenario is the short-term, every-day interaction of a customer ordering a drink from a bartender. To... Read More about Modelling state of interaction from head poses for social human-robot interaction.

Comparing objective and subjective measures of usability in a human-robot dialogue system (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Foster, M. E., Giuliani, M., & Knoll, A. (2009, August). Comparing objective and subjective measures of usability in a human-robot dialogue system. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), Suntec, Singapore

We present a human-robot dialogue system that enables a robot to work together with a human user to build wooden construction toys. We then describe a study in which na¨ıve subjects interacted with this system under a range of conditions and then com... Read More about Comparing objective and subjective measures of usability in a human-robot dialogue system.

Combining goal inference and natural-language dialogue for human-robot joint action (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Foster, M. E., Giuliani, M., Müller, T., Knoll, A., Erlhagen, W., Bicho, E., …Louro, L. (2008, July). Combining goal inference and natural-language dialogue for human-robot joint action. Paper presented at International Workshop on Combinations of Intelligent Methods and Applications, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Patras, Greece

We demonstrate how combining the reasoning components from two existing systems designed for human-robot joint action produces an integrated system with greater capabilities than either of the individual systems. One of the systems supports primaril... Read More about Combining goal inference and natural-language dialogue for human-robot joint action.

Evaluating description and reference strategies in a cooperative human-robot dialogue system
Presentation / Conference
Foster, M. E., Giuliani, M., Isard, A., Matheson, C., Oberlander, J., & Knoll, A. Evaluating description and reference strategies in a cooperative human-robot dialogue system. Paper presented at Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), 11-17 July 2009

We present a human-robot dialogue system that enables a robot to work together with a human user to build wooden construction toys. We then describe a study which assessed the responses of na¨ıve users to output that varied along two dimensions: the... Read More about Evaluating description and reference strategies in a cooperative human-robot dialogue system.