Search Results for author: Zhonghao Shi

Found 5 papers, 0 papers with code

How Can Large Language Models Enable Better Socially Assistive Human-Robot Interaction: A Brief Survey

no code implementations1 Apr 2024 Zhonghao Shi, Ellen Landrum, Amy O' Connell, Mina Kian, Leticia Pinto-Alva, Kaleen Shrestha, Xiaoyuan Zhu, Maja J Matarić

Socially assistive robots (SARs) have shown great success in providing personalized cognitive-affective support for user populations with special needs such as older adults, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and individuals with mental health challenges.

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.

Build Your Own Robot Friend: An Open-Source Learning Module for Accessible and Engaging AI Education

no code implementations6 Jan 2024 Zhonghao Shi, Allison O'Connell, Zongjian Li, SiQi Liu, Jennifer Ayissi, Guy Hoffman, Mohammad Soleymani, Maja J. Matarić

We hope that this work will contribute toward accessible and engaging AI education in human-AI interaction for college and high school students.

Ethics

MaSS: Multi-attribute Selective Suppression

no code implementations18 Oct 2022 Chun-Fu Chen, Shaohan Hu, Zhonghao Shi, Prateek Gulati, Bill Moriarty, Marco Pistoia, Vincenzo Piuri, Pierangela Samarati

The recent rapid advances in machine learning technologies largely depend on the vast richness of data available today, in terms of both the quantity and the rich content contained within.

Attribute

Modeling Engagement in Long-Term, In-Home Socially Assistive Robot Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

no code implementations6 Feb 2020 Shomik Jain, Balasubramanian Thiagarajan, Zhonghao Shi, Caitlyn Clabaugh, Maja J. Matarić

This work applies supervised machine learning algorithms to model user engagement in the context of long-term, in-home SAR interventions for children with ASD.

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