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An adaptive modular recurrent cerebellum-inspired controller (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Animals and robots face the common challenge of interacting with an unstructured environment. While animals excel and thrive in such environments, modern robotics struggles to effectively execute simple tasks. To help improve performance in the face... Read More about An adaptive modular recurrent cerebellum-inspired controller.

Feather-inspired sensor for stabilizing unmanned aerial vehicles in turbulent conditions (2017)
Book Chapter

Stabilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in turbulent conditions is a challenging problem. Typical methods of stabilization do not use feedforward information about the airflow disturbances but only UAV attitude feedback signals, e.g. from an iner... Read More about Feather-inspired sensor for stabilizing unmanned aerial vehicles in turbulent conditions.

An architecture for ethical robots inspired by the simulation theory of cognition (2017)
Journal Article

The expanding ability of robots to take unsupervised decisions renders it imperative that mechanisms are in place to guarantee the safety of their behaviour. Moreover, intelligent autonomous robots should be more than safe; arguably they should also... Read More about An architecture for ethical robots inspired by the simulation theory of cognition.

Unsupervised machine learning for developing personalised behaviour models using activity data (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The goal of this study is to address two major issues that undermine the large scale deployment of smart home sensing solutions in people’s homes. These include the costs associated with havin... Read More about Unsupervised machine learning for developing personalised behaviour models using activity data.

Standardizing Ethical Design for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems (2017)
Journal Article

© 1970-2012 IEEE. AI is here now, available to anyone with access to digital technology and the Internet. But its consequences for our social order aren't well understood. How can we guide the way technology impacts society?

Personality perception of robot avatar teleoperators in solo and dyadic tasks (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Bremner, Celiktutan and Gunes. Humanoid robot avatars are a potential new telecommunication tool, whereby a user is remotely represented by a robot that replicates their arm, head, and possible face movements. They have been shown to have a nu... Read More about Personality perception of robot avatar teleoperators in solo and dyadic tasks.

To err is robot: How humans assess and act toward an erroneous social robot (2017)
Journal Article

© 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.

A quantitative analysis of dressing dynamics for robotic dressing assistance (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Chance, Jevtić, Caleb-Solly and Dogramadzi. Assistive robots have a great potential to address issues related to an aging population and an increased demand for caregiving. Successful deployment of robots working in close proximity with people... Read More about A quantitative analysis of dressing dynamics for robotic dressing assistance.

Principles of robotics: regulating robots in the real world (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper proposes a set of five ethical principles, together with seven high-level messages, as a basis for responsible robotics. The Principles of Robotics... Read More about Principles of robotics: regulating robots in the real world.

Safe human–robot interaction in medical robotics: A case study on robotic fracture surgery system (2017)
Journal Article

This paper presents a safety analysis of a Robotic Fracture Surgery System using the Systems-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA). It focuses particularly on hazards caused by the human in the loop. The robotic system and operating staff are modeled inc... Read More about Safe human–robot interaction in medical robotics: A case study on robotic fracture surgery system.

Supervised Autonomy for Online Learning in Human-Robot Interaction (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 When a robot is learning it needs to explore its environment and how its environment responds on its actions. When the environment is large and there are a large number of possible actions the robot can take, this exploration phase can take pr... Read More about Supervised Autonomy for Online Learning in Human-Robot Interaction.

Industrial human-robot interaction: Creating personas for augmented reality supported robot control and teaching (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Tablet-based augmented reality in the factory: Influence of knowledge in computer programming on robot teaching tasks (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Elements of humor: How humans perceive verbal and non-verbal aspects of humorous robot behavior (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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 Contribution

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.

Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Evaluations and Recommendations (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2017 ACM. An increasing number of human-robot interaction (HRI) studies are now taking place in applied settings with children. These interactions often hinge on verbal interaction to effectively achieve their goals. Great advances have been made i... Read More about Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Evaluations and Recommendations.

Self-adaptive context aware audio localization (2017)
Book Chapter

An audio sensor system is presented that uses multiple cere-
bellar models to determine the acoustic environment in which a robot is operating, allowing the robot to select appropriate models to calibrate its audio-motor map for the detected environ... Read More about Self-adaptive context aware audio localization.

When robots tell each other stories: The emergence of artificial fiction (2017)
Book Chapter

This essay outlines a proposal for an embodied computational model of storytelling, using robots. If it could be built, the model would open the possibility for experimental demonstration and investigation of how simple narrative might emerge from in... Read More about When robots tell each other stories: The emergence of artificial fiction.

Rational imitation for robots: the cost difference model (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Infants imitate behaviour flexibly. Depending on the circumstances, they copy both actions and their effects or only reproduce the demonstrator’s intended goals. In view of this selective imitation, infants have been cal... Read More about Rational imitation for robots: the cost difference model.

Autonomous energy harvesting and prevention of cell reversal in MFC stacks (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2016. This study presents a novel method for avoiding cell reversal whilst optimising energy harvesting from stacked Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) by dynamically reconfiguring the electrical connections between them. The sequential chan... Read More about Autonomous energy harvesting and prevention of cell reversal in MFC stacks.