Conversational Agents for Intelligent Buildings

no code implementations • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2020 • Weronika Sieińska, Christian Dondrup, Nancie Gunson, Oliver Lemon

We will demonstrate a deployed conversational AI system that acts as a host of a smart-building on a university campus.

A Visually-Aware Conversational Robot Receptionist

no code implementations • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2022 • Nancie Gunson, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Weronika Sieińska, Angus Addlesee, Christian Dondrup, Oliver Lemon, Jose L. Part, Yanchao Yu

Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) have the potential to play an increasingly important role in a variety of contexts including healthcare, but most existing systems have very limited interactive capabilities.

Question Answering

Proceedings of the AI-HRI Symposium at AAAI-FSS 2020

no code implementations • 26 Oct 2020 • Shelly Bagchi, Jason R. Wilson, Muneeb I. Ahmad, Christian Dondrup, Zhao Han, Justin W. Hart, Matteo Leonetti, Katrin Lohan, Ross Mead, Emmanuel Senft, Jivko Sinapov, Megan L. Zimmerman

We see a growing need for research that lives directly at the intersection of AI and HRI that is serviced by this symposium.

Robots in the Danger Zone: Exploring Public Perception through Engagement

no code implementations • 1 Apr 2020 • David A. Robb, Muneeb I. Ahmad, Carlo Tiseo, Simona Aracri, Alistair C. McConnell, Vincent Page, Christian Dondrup, Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, Hai-Nguyen Nguyen, Èric Pairet, Paola Ardón Ramírez, Tushar Semwal, Hazel M. Taylor, Lindsay J. Wilson, David Lane, Helen Hastie, Katrin Lohan

We describe the use of a light touch quiz-format survey instrument to integrate in-the-wild research participation into the engagement, allowing us to probe both the effectiveness of our engagement strategy, and public perceptions of the future roles of robots and humans working in dangerous settings, such as in the off-shore energy sector.

MuMMER: Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction in Public Spaces

no code implementations • 15 Sep 2019 • Mary Ellen Foster, Bart Craenen, Amol Deshmukh, Oliver Lemon, Emanuele Bastianelli, Christian Dondrup, Ioannis Papaioannou, Andrea Vanzo, Jean-Marc Odobez, Olivier Canévet, Yuanzhouhan Cao, Weipeng He, Angel Martínez-González, Petr Motlicek, Rémy Siegfried, Rachid Alami, Kathleen Belhassein, Guilhem Buisan, Aurélie Clodic, Amandine Mayima, Yoan Sallami, Guillaume Sarthou, Phani-Teja Singamaneni, Jules Waldhart, Alexandre Mazel, Maxime Caniot, Marketta Niemelä, Päivi Heikkilä, Hanna Lammi, Antti Tammela

In the EU-funded MuMMER project, we have developed a social robot designed to interact naturally and flexibly with users in public spaces such as a shopping mall.

Motion Planning

Petri Net Machines for Human-Agent Interaction

no code implementations • 13 Sep 2019 • Christian Dondrup, Ioannis Papaioannou, Oliver Lemon

Smart speakers and robots become ever more prevalent in our daily lives.

Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Sympathy Begins with a Smile, Intelligence Begins with a Word: Use of Multimodal Features in Spoken Human-Robot Interaction

no code implementations • WS 2017 • Jekaterina Novikova, Christian Dondrup, Ioannis Papaioannou, Oliver Lemon

We find that happiness in the user's recognised facial expression strongly correlates with likeability of a robot, while dialogue-related features (such as number of human turns or number of sentences per robot utterance) correlate with perceiving a robot as intelligent.