Situated Spoken Dialogue with Robots Using Active Learning

Sugiura, Komei; Iwahashi, Naoto; Kawai, Hisashi; Nakamura, Satoshi

doi:10.1163/016918611x595044

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“…Green and Eklundh, 2003;Matsui et al, 1999). Sugiura et al have begun investigating when and how to confirm a robot's pending action(s) (Sugiura et al, 2010(Sugiura et al, , 2011. Vanderheiden and Vanderheiden's product accessibility guideline which suggests to "use selection techniques where the person need only make a single, simple, non-time-dependent movement to select" is applicable to the users from our target population commanding telepresence robots (Vanderheiden and Vanderheiden, 1992).…”

Section: Designing Telepresence Robot Navigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards designing telepresence robot navigation for people with disabilities

Tsui

McCann

McHugh

et al. 2014

International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics

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Purpose – The authors believe that people with cognitive and motor impairments may benefit from using of telepresence robots to engage in social activities. To date, these systems have not been designed for use by people with disabilities as the robot operators. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted two formative evaluations using a participatory action design process. First, the authors conducted a focus group (n=5) to investigate how members of the target audience would want to direct a telepresence robot in a remote environment using speech. The authors then conducted a follow-on experiment in which participants (n=12) used a telepresence robot or directed a human in a scavenger hunt task. Findings – The authors collected a corpus of 312 utterances (first hand as opposed to speculative) relating to spatial navigation. Overall, the analysis of the corpus supported several speculations put forth during the focus group. Further, it showed few statistically significant differences between speech used in the human and robot agent conditions; thus, the authors believe that, for the task of directing a telepresence robot's movements in a remote environment, people will speak to the robot in a manner similar to speaking to another person. Practical implications – Based upon the two formative evaluations, the authors present four guidelines for designing speech-based interfaces for telepresence robots. Originality/value – Robot systems designed for general use do not typically consider people with disabilities. The work is a first step towards having our target population take the active role of the telepresence robot operator.

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Section: Designing Telepresence Robot Navigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards designing telepresence robot navigation for people with disabilities

Tsui

McCann

McHugh

et al. 2014

International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics

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“…In practice, most service robots research and development groups are focused on particular specialities, like navigation [1][2][3][4][5], manipulation [6][7][8][9][10], vision [11][12][13][14][15], robot planning and coordination [16][17][18][19][20][21][22], audio [23][24][25], control and signal processing [26,27], operating systems [28,29], speech and language processing [30,31], machine learning [32][33][34][35][36][37], human-robot interaction [38][39][40][41] and artificial intelligence [42], among others, that constitute the service robot's supporting or enabling technologies. A detailed review and systematic comparison of the different approaches in the specialities mentioned -and possibly others -is a huge task to be undertaken that is beyond the scope of this paper.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Concept and Functional Structure of a Service Robot

Pineda

Rodríguez

Fuentes

et al. 2015

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

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In this paper, we present a concept of service robot and a framework for its functional specification and implementation. The present discussion is grounded in Newell's system levels hierarchy which suggests organizing robotics research in three different layers, corresponding to Marr's computational, algorithmic and implementation levels, as follows: (1) the service robot proper, which is the subject of the present paper, (2) perception and action algorithms, and (3) the systems programming level. The concept of a service robot is articulated in practice through the introduction of a conceptual model for particular service robots; this consists of the specification of a set of basic robotic behaviours and a number of mechanisms for assembling such behaviours during the execution of complex tasks. The model involves an explicit representation of the task structure, allowing for deliberative reasoning and task management. The model also permits distinguishing between a robot's competence and performance, along the lines of Chomsky's corresponding distinction. We illustrate how this model can be realized in practice with two composition modes that we call static and dynamic; these are illustrated with the Restaurant Test and the General Purpose Service Robot Test of the RoboCup@Home competition, respectively. The present framework and methodology has been implemented in the robot Golem-II+, which is also described. The paper is concluded with an overall reflection upon the present concept of a service robot and its associated functional specifications, and the potential impact of such a conceptual model in the study, development and application of service robots in general.

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“…Such applications include multi-participant conversation systems (Bohus and Horvitz, 2009) and human robot interaction systems (Tellex et al, 2011;Sugiura et al, 2011). The general problem of understanding and interacting with human users in such environments is referred to as situated interaction.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%