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Aschenbrenner, D. (author), van Tol, D.H. (author), Rusak, Z. (author), Werker, C. (author)This paper proposes to use Virtual Reality scenarios to explore the reaction of stakeholders within an innovation process in the context of the introduction of robots working in close collaboration with users. The goal is to design the system upfront in such a way, that it is not perceived as a threat to the worker or his/her job. Within the...conference paper 2020
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Aschenbrenner, D. (author), Rieder, J.S.I. (author), van Tol, D.H. (author), van Dam, J.J.F. (author), Rusak, Z. (author), Blech, Jan Olaf (author), Azangoo, Mohammad (author), Panu, Salo (author), Kruusamäe, Karl (author)How to visualize recorded production data in Virtual Reality? How to use state of the art Augmented Reality displays that can show robot data? This paper introduces an opensource ICT framework approach for combining Unity-based Mixed Reality applications with robotic production equipment using ROS Industrial. This publication gives details on...conference paper 2020
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Oertel, Catharine (author), Castellano, Ginevra (author), Chetouani, Mohamed (author), Nasir, Jauwairia (author), Obaid, Mohammad (author), Pelachaud, Catherine (author), Peters, Christopher (author)Engagement is a concept of the utmost importance in human-computer interaction, not only for informing the design and implementation of interfaces, but also for enabling more sophisticated interfaces capable of adapting to users. While the notion of engagement is actively being studied in a diverse set of domains, the term has been used to...review 2020
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Saad, E. (author), Broekens, D.J. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author)The design space of human-robot interaction is large and multi-dimensional. A sound design requires a systematic theory-driven exploration, specification and refinement of design variables. There is a need for a practical method and tool to iteratively specify the content of the dialogue (e.g., speech acts) with the accompanying expressive...conference paper 2020
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Manschitz, Simon (author), Gienger, Michael (author), Kober, J. (author), Peters, Jan (author)Learning skills from kinesthetic demonstrations is a promising way of minimizing the gap between human manipulation abilities and those of robots. We propose an approach to learn sequential force interaction skills from such demonstrations. The demonstrations are decomposed into a set of movement primitives by inferring the underlying...journal article 2020
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Wolter, R.C. (author), Hindriks, K.V. (author), Samur, Dalya (author), Jonker, C.M. (author)The commercial availability of robots and voice-operated smart devices such as Alexa or Google Home have some companies wondering whether they can replace some current human interactions by using these devices. One such area of interaction is at the reception desk. While both platforms can offer the necessary interaction features to take on...conference paper 2020
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Nostadt, Nicolas (author), Abbink, D.A. (author), Christ, Oliver (author), Beckerle, Philipp (author)Subjective experience of human control over remote, artificial, or virtual limbs has traditionally been investigated from two separate angles: presence research originates from teleoperation, aiming to capture to what extent the user feels like actually being in the remote or virtual environment. Embodiment captures to what extent a virtual...review 2020
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Franzese, G. (author), Celemin, Carlos (author), Kober, J. (author)In Learning from Demonstrations, ambiguities can lead to bad generalization of the learned policy. This paper proposes a framework called Learning Interactively to Resolve Ambiguity (LIRA), that recognizes ambiguous situations, in which more than one action have similar probabilities, avoids a random action selection, and uses the human...journal article 2020
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Donadoni, Laura (author)The use of social robots increased in the past few years. Current technology, however, lacks in deploying a single robot for different applications without the help of a human being. Current solutions are time-consuming, labour intensive and hard to generalize. Being aware of its surroundings, in terms of environment and context, the robot can...master thesis 2019
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Saad, E. (author), Broekens, D.J. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Hindriks, K.V. (author)This paper presents the design and evaluation of human-like welcoming behaviors for a humanoid robot to draw the attention of passersby by following a three-step model: (1) selecting a target (person) to engage, (2) executing behaviors to draw the target's attention, and (3) monitoring the attentive response. A computer vision algorithm was...conference paper 2019
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de Graaf, Marnix (author)Social Robotics is an emerging field in Computer Science. Most social robots currently commercially available to buy do not have fast hardware components. As a result, the built-in software has low accuracy and performance with (amongst others) speech and facial recognition and dialogs during social interaction with users. Cloud computation...master thesis 2019
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Lupetti, M.L. (author), Bendor, R. (author), Giaccardi, Elisa (author)This paper suggests robot citizenship as a design perspective for attending to the sociality of human robot interactions (HRI) in the near future. First, we review current positions regarding robot citizenship, which we summarise as: human analogy, nonhuman analogy and socio-relationality. Based on this review, we then suggest an understanding...conference paper 2019
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Lamon, Edoardo (author), De Franco, Alessandro (author), Peternel, L. (author), Ajoudani, Arash (author)The deployment of industrial robotic cells based on lean manufacturing principles enables the development of fast-reconfigurable assembly lines in which human and robotic agents collaborate to achieve a shared task. To ensure the effective coordination of the shared effort, each task must be decomposed into a sequence of atomic actions that can...journal article 2019
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Mecacci, G. (author), Santoni De Sio, F. (author)In this paper, in line with the general framework of value-sensitive design, we aim to operationalize the general concept of “Meaningful Human Control” (MHC) in order to pave the way for its translation into more specific design requirements. In particular, we focus on the operationalization of the first of the two conditions (Santoni de Sio...journal article 2019
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Petrič, Tadej (author), Peternel, L. (author), Morimoto, Jun (author), Babič, Jan (author)This paper introduces a novel control framework for an arm exoskeleton that takes into account force of the human arm. In contrast to the conventional exoskeleton controllers where the assistance is provided without considering the human arm biomechanical force manipulability properties, we propose a control approach based on the arm muscular...journal article 2019
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Hofland, Jelle (author)Automation in a domestic environment is not flawless and human interference will be necessary, for implementing robots in this environment. <br/>When remotely controlling semi-autonomous robots, proposed concepts can be divided into two main concepts: To trade control back and forth between the human and the operator and to share control...master thesis 2018
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Amadei, Edoardo (author)The elicitation of user engagement is one of the current challenges of human-robot interaction, alongside with the identification of appropriate metrics to evaluate users' experience. Several studies focused on strategies aimed at maintaining engagement throughout an interaction, but limited research has been done on how to initiate it by...master thesis 2018
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Hoogerwerf, Eert (author)Human-robot collaboration can be improved if the motions of the robot are more legible and predictable. This can be achieved by making the motions more human-like. It is assumed that humans move optimal with respect to a certain objective or cost function. To find this function an inverse optimal control approach is developed. It uses a bilevel...master thesis 2018
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Romi Kharisnawan, Romi (author)An important challenge in developing a social robot is making the interaction between human and robot to be more pleasant and convenient. It could be obtained by making the robot to develop, i.e. change its behavior over the course of time. Here we study two aspects of development: behavioral adaptation and behavioral complexity to which we...master thesis 2018
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van Oosterhout, J. (author)The success of future fusion power plants as a sustainable energy source greatly depends on their uptime. This uptime relies on the plant's maintenance, which must be performed via tele-manipulation. Tele-manipulated maintenance is challenging, as exemplified by strictly selected and highly trained operators who still require more time to work...doctoral thesis 2018