no code implementations • 13 Jan 2021 • Giulia Perugia, Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, Madelene Alanenpää, Ginevra Castellano
These are key findings for the HRI community as they entail that gaze behavior can be used as an implicit measure of people's perception of robots in a social chat and of their engagement and task performance in a joint task.
Robotics Human-Computer Interaction
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2020 • Sebastian Wallkotter, Silvia Tulli, Ginevra Castellano, Ana Paiva, Mohamed Chetouani
One reason for this high variance in terminology is the unique array of social cues that embodied agents can access in contrast to that accessed by non-embodied agents.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2019 • Xi Chen, Yuan Gao, Ali Ghadirzadeh, Marten Bjorkman, Ginevra Castellano, Patric Jensfelt
In this work, we introduce an exploration approach based on maximizing the entropy of the visited states while learning a goal-conditioned policy.
no code implementations • 12 Aug 2019 • Yuan Gao, Elena Sibirtseva, Ginevra Castellano, Danica Kragic
In socially assistive robotics, an important research area is the development of adaptation techniques and their effect on human-robot interaction.
1 code implementation • 16 Oct 2018 • Yuan Gao, Fangkai Yang, Martin Frisk, Daniel Hernandez, Christopher Peters, Ginevra Castellano
Deep reinforcement learning has recently been widely applied in robotics to study tasks such as locomotion and grasping, but its application to social human-robot interaction (HRI) remains a challenge.