Language-capable robots may inadvertently weaken human moral norms

RB Jackson, T Williams - 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Previous research in moral psychology and human-robot interaction has shown that
technology shapes human morality, and research in human-robot interaction has shown that …

Mixed reality deictic gesture for multi-modal robot communication

T Williams, M Bussing, S Cabrol… - 2019 14th ACM/IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In previous work, researchers have repeatedly demonstrated that robots' use of deictic
gestures enables effective and natural human-robot interaction. However, new technologies …

Miscommunication detection and recovery in situated human–robot dialogue

M Marge, AI Rudnicky - ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Even without speech recognition errors, robots may face difficulties interpreting natural-
language instructions. We present a method for robustly handling miscommunication …

Enabling morally sensitive robotic clarification requests

RB Jackson, T Williams - ACM Transactions on Human-Robot …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The design of current natural language-oriented robot architectures enables certain
architectural components to circumvent moral reasoning capabilities. One example of this is …

A survey of semantic reasoning frameworks for robotic systems

W Liu, A Daruna, M Patel, K Ramachandruni… - Robotics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Robots are increasingly transitioning from specialized, single-task machines to general-
purpose systems that operate in diverse and dynamic environments. To address the …

Forget about it: Entity-level working memory models for referring expression generation in robot cognitive architectures

R Sousa Silva, M Lieng, T Williams - … of the annual meeting of the …, 2023 - escholarship.org
Working Memory (WM) plays a key role in natural language understanding and generation.
To enable a human-like breadth and flexibility of language understanding and generation …

[图书][B] Exploring mixed reality robot communication under different types of mental workload

N Tran - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Research has shown that the use of physical deictic gestures such as pointing and
presenting by robots enables more effective and natural human-robot interaction. However …

Decision-theoretic question generation for situated reference resolution: An empirical study and computational model

F Gervits, G Briggs, A Roque, GA Kadomatsu… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Dialogue agents that interact with humans in situated environments need to manage
referential ambiguity across multiple modalities and ask for help as needed. However, it is …

Task-Oriented Robot Cognitive Manipulation Planning Using Affordance Segmentation and Logic Reasoning

Z Wang, G Tian - IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The purpose of task-oriented robot cognitive manipulation planning is to enable robots to
select appropriate actions to manipulate appropriate parts of an object according to different …

Efficient, situated and ontology based referring expression generation for human-robot collaboration

G Buisan, G Sarthou, A Bit-Monnot… - 2020 29th IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), ensuring nonambiguous communication between the
robot and the human is a key point for carrying out fluently a collaborative task. With this …