scholarly journals Responsible Human-Robot Interaction with Anthropomorphic Service Robots: State of the Art of an Interdisciplinary Research Challenge

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Maria Stock-Homburg ◽  
Jérôme Kirchhoff ◽  
Judith S. Heinisch ◽  
Andreas Ebert ◽  
Philip Busch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Research Challenge

scholarly journals Question-aware memory network for multi-hop question answering in human–robot interaction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinmeng Li ◽  
Mamoun Alazab ◽  
Qian Li ◽  
Keping Yu ◽  
Quanjun Yin
Keyword(s):  
Question Answering ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Knowledge Graph ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Natural Language Question ◽  
Memory Network ◽  
The Given ◽  
Fine Tune ◽  
Language Question

AbstractKnowledge graph question answering is an important technology in intelligent human–robot interaction, which aims at automatically giving answer to human natural language question with the given knowledge graph. For the multi-relation question with higher variety and complexity, the tokens of the question have different priority for the triples selection in the reasoning steps. Most existing models take the question as a whole and ignore the priority information in it. To solve this problem, we propose question-aware memory network for multi-hop question answering, named QA2MN, to update the attention on question timely in the reasoning process. In addition, we incorporate graph context information into knowledge graph embedding model to increase the ability to represent entities and relations. We use it to initialize the QA2MN model and fine-tune it in the training process. We evaluate QA2MN on PathQuestion and WorldCup2014, two representative datasets for complex multi-hop question answering. The result demonstrates that QA2MN achieves state-of-the-art Hits@1 accuracy on the two datasets, which validates the effectiveness of our model.

scholarly journals User-centred design of humanoid robots’ communication

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-73
Author(s):  
Sofia Thunberg ◽  
Tom Ziemke
Keyword(s):  
Mental Models ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Humanoid Robot ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Humanoid Robots ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Design Ideas

AbstractInteraction between humans and robots will benefit if people have at least a rough mental model of what a robot knows about the world and what it plans to do. But how do we design human-robot interactions to facilitate this? Previous research has shown that one can change people’s mental models of robots by manipulating the robots’ physical appearance. However, this has mostly not been done in a user-centred way, i.e. without a focus on what users need and want. Starting from theories of how humans form and adapt mental models of others, we investigated how the participatory design method, PICTIVE, can be used to generate design ideas about how a humanoid robot could communicate. Five participants went through three phases based on eight scenarios from the state-of-the-art tasks in the RoboCup@Home social robotics competition. The results indicate that participatory design can be a suitable method to generate design concepts for robots’ communication in human-robot interaction.

Vision-based Human-Robot Interaction Components for URC Intelligent Service Robots

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keun-chang Kwak ◽  
Do-hyung Kim ◽  
Byoung-youl Song ◽  
Dae-ha Lee ◽  
Soo-young Chi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Robot Interaction

scholarly journals Robot Partner Development Platform for Human-Robot Interaction Based on a User-Centered Design Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (22) ◽  
pp. 7992
Author(s):  
Jinseok Woo ◽  
Yasuhiro Ohyama ◽  
Naoyuki Kubota
Keyword(s):  
System Integration ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Smart Device ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Development Platform

This paper presents a robot partner development platform based on smart devices. Humans communicate with others based on the basic motivations of human cooperation and have communicative motives based on social attributes. Understanding and applying these communicative motives become important in the development of socially-embedded robot partners. Therefore, it is becoming more important to develop robots that can be applied according to needs while taking these human communication elements into consideration. The role of a robot partner is more important in not only on the industrial sector but also in households. However, it seems that it will take time to disseminate robots. In the field of service robots, the development of robots according to various needs is important and the system integration of hardware and software becomes crucial. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a robot partner development platform for human-robot interaction. Firstly, we propose a modularized architecture of robot partners using a smart device to realize a flexible update based on the re-usability of hardware and software modules. In addition, we show examples of implementing a robot system using the proposed architecture. Next, we focus on the development of various robots using the modular robot partner system. Finally, we discuss the effectiveness of the proposed robot partner system through social implementation and experiments.

scholarly journals A Review on Design of Upper Limb Exoskeletons

Robotics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ahsan Gull ◽  
Shaoping Bai ◽  
Thomas Bak
Keyword(s):  
Upper Limb ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Technology Research ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
New Era ◽  
General Classification ◽  
Exoskeleton Robotics

Exoskeleton robotics has ushered in a new era of modern neuromuscular rehabilitation engineering and assistive technology research. The technology promises to improve the upper-limb functionalities required for performing activities of daily living. The exoskeleton technology is evolving quickly but still needs interdisciplinary research to solve technical challenges, e.g., kinematic compatibility and development of effective human–robot interaction. In this paper, the recent development in upper-limb exoskeletons is reviewed. The key challenges involved in the development of assistive exoskeletons are highlighted by comparing available solutions. This paper provides a general classification, comparisons, and overview of the mechatronic designs of upper-limb exoskeletons. In addition, a brief overview of the control modalities for upper-limb exoskeletons is also presented in this paper. A discussion on the future directions of research is included.

scholarly journals Implications from Responsible Human-Robot Interaction with Anthropomorphic Service Robots for Design Science

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merlind Knof ◽  
Judith S. Heinisch ◽  
Jérôme Kirchhoff ◽  
Niyati Rawal ◽  
Klaus David ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Science ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Robot Interaction
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