This research investigates travelers' trust in intelligent autonomous technologies based on
two studies involving self-driving transportation and robot bartenders. Targeting travelers …

Companion-technology is an emerging field of cross-disciplinary research. It aims at
developing technical systems that appear as “Companions” to their users. They serve as co …

Abstract Machine learning (ML) techniques have become pervasive across a range of
different applications, and are now widely used in areas as disparate as recidivism …

Over the last two decades, several deployments of robots for in-house assistance of older
adults have been trialled. However, these solutions are mostly prototypes and remain …

Service robots for personal use in the home and the workplace require end-user
development solutions for swiftly scripting robot tasks as the need arises. Many existing …

Epistemic planning is the enrichment of automated planning with epistemic notions such as
knowledge and belief. In general, single-agent epistemic planning considers the following …

Generating complex multi-turn goal-oriented dialogue agents is a difficult problem that has
seen a considerable focus from many leaders in the tech industry, including IBM, Google …

Epistemic planning can be used for decision making in multi-agent situations with distributed
knowledge and capabilities. Recently, Dynamic Epistemic Logic (DEL) has been shown to …

A robot agent designed to engage in real-world human–robot joint action must be able to
understand the social states of the human users it interacts with in order to behave …

In various social, work-related, or educational contexts, an increasing demand for intelligent
assistance systems can be observed. In this paper, we present a domain-independent …