Collaboration between human and robot requires effective modes of communication to
assign robot tasks and coordinate activities. As communication can utilize different …

Presents an approach for the integration of a direct multimodal human-robot interaction
using a laser pointer and speech into a experimental multi-robot control station. Control …

Speech recognition is available on ordinary personal computers and is starting to appear in
standard software applications. A known problem with speech interfaces is their integration …

In order to model complex human robot interaction researchers not only have to consider
different tasks but also to handle the complex interplay of different modules of one single …

Interacting with robots like service robots should be as natural as possible for humans. As a
consequence, such robots should be equipped with a multimodal user interface, so that …

In this paper we present our ongoing work in building technologies for natural multimodal
human-robot interaction. We present our systems for spontaneous speech recognition …

Recent research progresses in speech recognition, text-to-speech, natural language
understanding, or dialog management components are improving the way humans interact …

Co-verbal gestures are an important part of human communication, improving its efficiency
for information conveyance. A key component of such improvement is the observer's ability …

This paper identifies several issues in multimodal dialogues between a companion robot
and a human user. Specifically, these issues pertain to the synchronization of multimodal …

Among the cognitive abilities a robot companion must be endowed with, human perception
and speech understanding are both fundamental in the context of multimodal human-robot …