Are you still with me? continuous engagement assessment from a robot's point of view

F Del Duchetto, P Baxter, M Hanheide - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Continuously measuring the engagement of users with a robot in a Human-Robot Interaction
(HRI) setting paves the way toward in-situ reinforcement learning, improve metrics of …

Sustainable cloud services for verbal interaction with embodied agents

L Grassi, CT Recchiuto, A Sgorbissa - Intelligent Service Robotics, 2023 - Springer
This article presents the design and the implementation of a cloud system for knowledge-
based autonomous interaction devised for Social Robots and other conversational agents …

Lindsey the Tour Guide Robot: Adaptive Long-Term Autonomy in Social Environments

F Del Duchetto - 2023 - repository.lincoln.ac.uk
This project proposes a framework for online adaptation of robot behaviours deployed
autonomously in social settings with the goal of increasing the overall users' engagement …

Abstract visual programming of social robots for novice users

O Brown, L Roberts-Elliott, F Del Duchetto… - Companion of the 2020 …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
To facilitate interaction of robots with people in public spaces it would be beneficial for them
to use social behaviours: ie low-level behaviours that suggest the robot is a social agent …

Automatic Assessment and Learning of Robot Social Abilities

P Baxter, F Del Duchetto, M Hanheide - 2020 - repository.lincoln.ac.uk
One of the key challenges of current state-of-the-art robotic deployments in public spaces,
where the robot is supposed to interact with humans, is the generation of behaviors that are …

Automatic Assessment and Learning of Robot Social Abilities

F Del Duchetto, P Baxter, M Hanheide - Companion of the 2020 ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
One of the key challenges of current state-of-the-art robotic deployments in public spaces,
where the robot is supposed to interact with humans, is the generation of behaviors that are …