As robots interact with a broader range of end-users, end-user robot programming has
helped democratize robot programming by empowering end-users who may not have …

Critical voices within and beyond the scientific community have pointed to a grave matter of
concern regarding who is included in research and who is not. Subsequent investigations …

Going beyond dyadic (one-to-one) interaction has been increasingly explored in HRI. Yet
we lack a comprehensive view on non-dyadic interaction research in HRI. To map out 15 …

Just as end-user programming has helped make computer programming accessible for a
variety of users and settings, end-user robot programming has helped empower end-users …

This paper presents an approach to describe abilities of manufacturing resources by a
formal description of capabilities using Semantic Web technologies. A hierarchical ontology …

Reinforcement learning has shown great potential for learning sequential decision-making
tasks. Yet, it is difficult to anticipate all possible real-world scenarios during training, causing …

This paper presents a novel approach to interaction between human workers and industrial
collaborative robots. The proposed approach addresses problems introduced by existing …

Robots are expected to be key enablers in assisting older adults with aging in place by
providing cognitive, social, and physical assistance. Because older adults vary greatly in …

Learning from demonstration (LfD) has enabled robots to rapidly gain new skills and
capabilities by leveraging examples provided by novice human operators. While effective …

The great diversity of end-user tasks ranging from manufacturing environments to personal
homes makes pre-programming robots for general purpose applications extremely …