The MuMMER Project: Engaging Human-Robot Interaction in Real-World Public Spaces

Foster, Mary Ellen; Alami, Rachid; Gestranius, Olli; Lemon, Oliver; Niemelä, Marketta; Odobez, Jean Marc; Pandey, Amit Kumar

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_74

Cited by 62 publications

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“…1 Robots can be introduced in our society as the following studies suggest (Kanda et al 2009;Wada and Shibata 2018;Foster et al 2016;Aaltonen et al 2017;Liberati 2018). 2 Some people think that it is of particular importance for robots to have similar appearance with humans in order for them to be accepted as social members.…”

Section: Embodiment and Psychological Abilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vulnerability under the gaze of robots: relations among humans and robots

Liberati

Nagataki

2018

AI & Soc

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The problem of artificial intelligence and human being has always raised questions about possible interactions among them and possible effects yielded by the introduction of such un-human subject. Dreyfus deeply connects intelligence and body based on a phenomenological viewpoint. Thanks to his reading of Merleau-Ponty, he clearly stated that an intelligence must be embodied into a body to function. According to his suggestion, any AI designed to be human-like is doom to failure if there is no tight bound with a human-like body. Today, we are facing the pervasive introduction of robots into our everyday life, and the problem of this coexistence raises again with new vigor since they are not mere speculations, but there are already products sold to the public. We will highlight how vulnerability has to be taken into consideration in the design of robots to create entities which are able to relate to human beings taking into consideration mainly the positions of Sartre, Habermas, Levinas, and Marleau-Ponty. A first part will focus on the vulnerability of the robots. Robots are going to be among us, but a real interaction is possible only the moment they have a "same" body of ours. Therefore, only through the realization of a "fragile" body we can achieve a cohabitation between equals. Thanks to Merleau-Ponty we will show how the vulnerability of a body is one of the most important element to found any social interaction. The second part will focus on how the robots will affect the vulnerability of the human subjects. To produce vulnerable robots is not a mere neutral introduction, but it shapes how the subjects are constituted. Thanks to Levinas, we will study how the vulnerable robots will shape the subjects. Thanks to Sartre, we will show how the creation of a different gaze in the robot changes the vulnerabilities of the human subjects. Introducing vulnerable robots is a way to shape ourselves.

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Section: Embodiment and Psychological Abilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vulnerability under the gaze of robots: relations among humans and robots

Liberati

Nagataki

2018

AI & Soc

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“…This work is being carried out in context of the MultiModal Mall Entertainment Robot (MuMMER) project, a four-year, EU-funded project 1 , with the overall goal of developing a humanoid robot, Pepper, that can interact autonomously and naturally in the dynamic environments of a public shopping mall [8]. The overall concept underlying MuMMER is that for a robot to be successful in such a situation, it must be entertaining and engaging: that is, they must possess the social intelligence to both understand the needs and interactive behaviour of the users, as well as to produce appropriate behaviour in response.…”

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Modulating the non-verbal social signals of a humanoid robot

Deshmukh

Craenen

Vinciarelli

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

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In this demonstration we present a repertoire of social signals generated by the humanoid robot Pepper in the context of the EUfunded project MuMMER. The aim of this research is to provide the robot with the expressive capabilities required to interact with people in real-world public spaces such as shopping malls-and being able to control the non-verbal behaviour of such a robot is key to engaging with humans in an effective way. We propose an approach to modulating the non-verbal social signals of the robot based on systematically varying the amplitude and speed of the joint motions and gathering user evaluations of the resulting gestures. We anticipate that the humans' perception of the robot behaviour will be influenced by these modulations.

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“…All of the comparison figures show both global (in green) and local (in red) paths of the robot. Whenever possible the predicted human paths are also shown in the figures (in blue) 4 .…”

Section: Comparing Human-aware Plannersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Robots are offering guidance to passengers at airports [2], providing assistance to elderly people at care centers [3], or even engaging in entertaining experiences in public spaces [4]. Use of social robots in these domains show that situations where human and robot share and navigate in common space are becoming more and more important.…”

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Assessing the social criteria for human-robot collaborative navigation: A comparison of human-aware navigation planners

Khambhaita

Alami

2017

2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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Abstract-This paper focuses on requirements for effective human robot collaboration in interactive navigation scenarios. We designed several use-cases where humans and robot had to move in the same environment that resemble canonical path-crossing situations. These use-cases include open as well as constrained spaces. Three different state-of-the-art humanaware navigation planners were used for planning the robot paths during all selected use-cases. We compare results of simulation experiments with these human-aware planners in terms of quality of generated trajectories together with discussion on capabilities and limitations of the planners. The results show that the human-robot collaborative planner [1] performs better in everyday path-crossing configurations. This suggests that the criteria used by the human-robot collaborative planner (safety, time-to-collision, directional-costs) are possible good measures for designing acceptable human-aware navigation planners. Consequently, we analyze the effects of these social criteria and draw perspectives on future evolution of human-aware navigation planning methods.

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The MuMMER Project: Engaging Human-Robot Interaction in Real-World Public Spaces

Cited by 62 publications

References 24 publications

Vulnerability under the gaze of robots: relations among humans and robots

Vulnerability under the gaze of robots: relations among humans and robots

Modulating the non-verbal social signals of a humanoid robot

Assessing the social criteria for human-robot collaborative navigation: A comparison of human-aware navigation planners

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