Search Results for author: Nathaniel Dennler

Found 5 papers, 1 papers with code

Singing the Body Electric: The Impact of Robot Embodiment on User Expectations

no code implementations13 Jan 2024 Nathaniel Dennler, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Maja Matarić

As a result, understanding conceptualizations formed from physical design is necessary to understand how users intend to interact with the robot.

Evaluating and Personalizing User-Perceived Quality of Text-to-Speech Voices for Delivering Mindfulness Meditation with Different Physical Embodiments

no code implementations7 Jan 2024 Zhonghao Shi, Han Chen, Anna-Maria Velentza, SiQi Liu, Nathaniel Dennler, Allison O'Connell, Maja Matarić

Building on findings from Phase 1, in Phase 2, an in-person within-subject study (N=94), we used a novel framework we developed for personalizing TTS voices based on user preferences, and evaluated user-perceived quality compared to best-rated non-personalized voices from Phase 1.

pyribs: A Bare-Bones Python Library for Quality Diversity Optimization

1 code implementation1 Mar 2023 Bryon Tjanaka, Matthew C. Fontaine, David H. Lee, Yulun Zhang, Nivedit Reddy Balam, Nathaniel Dennler, Sujay S. Garlanka, Nikitas Dimitri Klapsis, Stefanos Nikolaidis

Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity of quality diversity (QD) optimization, a branch of optimization that seeks to find a collection of diverse, high-performing solutions to a given problem.

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