TY - CONF T1 - A Human-Robot Mutual Learning System with Affect-Grounded Language Acquisition and Differential Outcomes Training T2 - Social Robotics. 15th International Conference, ICSR 2023, Proceedings Part II Y1 - 2024 A1 - Markelius, A. A1 - Sjöberg, S. A1 - Lemhaouri, Z. A1 - Cohen, L. A1 - Lowe, R. A1 - Cañamero, L. ED - Abdulaziz Al Ali ED - Nader Meskin ED - Wanyue Jiang ED - Shuzhi Sam Ge ED - John-John Cabibihan ED - Silvia Rossi ED - Hongsheng He JF - Social Robotics. 15th International Conference, ICSR 2023, Proceedings Part II PB - Springer CY - Doha, Qatar, December 3–7, 2023 VL - LNAI 14454 SN - 978-981-99-8717-7 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8718-4 ER - TY - CONF T1 - Expression of Grounded Affect: How Much Emotion Can Arousal Convey? T2 - Proc. 21st Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Conference (TAROS2020) Y1 - 2020 A1 - Hickton, Luke A1 - Lewis, Matthew A1 - Lola Cañamero ED - Abdelkhilick Mohammad ED - Xin Dong ED - Matteo Russo AB - In this paper we consider how non-humanoid robots can communicate their affective state via bodily forms of communication (kinesics), and the extent to which this influences how humans respond to them. We propose a simple model of grounded affect and kinesic expression before presenting the qualitative findings of an exploratory study (N=9), during which participants were interviewed after watching expressive and non-expressive hexapod robots perform different ‘scenes’. A summary of these interviews is presented and a number of emerging themes are identified and discussed. Whilst our findings suggest that the expressive robot did not evoke significantly greater empathy or altruistic intent in humans than the control robot, the expressive robot stimulated greater desire for interaction and was also more likely to be attributed with emotion. JF - Proc. 21st Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Conference (TAROS2020) T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science PB - Springer CY - Nottingham, UK VL - 12228 UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-63486-5_26 N1 - Download (the complete proceedings are available from the link on this page) ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A Socially Adaptable Framework for Human-Robot Interaction JF - Frontiers in Robotics and AI Y1 - 2020 A1 - Ana Tanevska A1 - Francesco Rea A1 - Giulio Sandini A1 - Lola Cañamero A1 - Alessandra Sciutti AB - In our everyday lives we regularly engage in complex, personalized, and adaptive interactions with our peers. To recreate the same kind of rich, human-like interactions, a social robot should be aware of our needs and affective states and continuously adapt its behavior to them. Our proposed solution is to have the robot learn how to select the behaviors that would maximize the pleasantness of the interaction for its peers. To make the robot autonomous in its decision making, this process could be guided by an internal motivation system. We wish to investigate how an adaptive robotic framework of this kind would function and personalize to different users. We also wish to explore whether the adaptability and personalization would bring any additional richness to the human-robot interaction (HRI), or whether it would instead bring uncertainty and unpredictability that would not be accepted by the robot's human peers. To this end, we designed a socially adaptive framework for the humanoid robot iCub. As a result, the robot perceives and reuses the affective and interactive signals from the person as input for the adaptation based on internal social motivation. We strive to investigate the value of the generated adaptation in our framework in the context of HRI. In particular, we compare how users will experience interaction with an adaptive versus a non-adaptive social robot. To address these questions, we propose a comparative interaction study with iCub whereby users act as the robot's caretaker, and iCub's social adaptation is guided by an internal comfort level that varies with the stimuli that iCub receives from its caretaker. We investigate and compare how iCub's internal dynamics would be perceived by people, both in a condition when iCub does not personalize its behavior to the person, and in a condition where it is instead adaptive. Finally, we establish the potential benefits that an adaptive framework could bring to the context of repeated interactions with a humanoid robot. VL - 7 UR - https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frobt.2020.00121 N1 - Download (Open Access) ER - TY - CONF T1 - A Cognitive Architecture for Socially Adaptable Robots T2 - Proc. 2019 Joint IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob) Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ana Tanevska A1 - Francesco Rea A1 - Giulio Sandini A1 - Lola Cañamero A1 - Alessandra Sciutti JF - Proc. 2019 Joint IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob) PB - IEEE CY - Oslo, Norway UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8850688 N1 - Download ER - TY - CONF T1 - Eager to Learn vs. Quick to Complain? How a socially adaptive robot architecture performs with different robot personalities T2 - Proc. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2019) Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ana Tanevska A1 - Francesco Rea A1 - Giulio Sandini A1 - Lola Cañamero A1 - Alessandra Sciutti AB - A social robot that is aware of our needs and continuously adapts its behaviour to them has the potential of creating a complex, personalized, human-like interaction of the kind we are used to have with our peers in our everyday lives. We are interested in exploring how would an adaptive architecture function and personalize to different users when given different initial values of its variables, i.e. when implementing the same adaptive framework with different robot personalities. Would an architecture that learns very quickly outperform a slower but steadier learning profile? To further explore this, we propose a cognitive architecture for the humanoid robot iCub supporting adaptability and we attempt to validate its functionality and test different robot profiles. JF - Proc. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2019) PB - IEEE CY - Bari, Italy UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8913903 N1 - Download ER - TY - CONF T1 - Let’s Be Friends: Perception of a Social Robotic Companion for children with T1DM T2 - Proc. New Friends 2015 Y1 - 2015 A1 - Kruijff-Korbayová, Ivana A1 - Oleari, Elettra A1 - Pozzi, Clara A1 - Sacchitelli, Francesca A1 - Bagherzadhalimi, Anahita A1 - Bellini, Sara A1 - Kiefer, Bernd A1 - Racioppa, Stefania A1 - Coninx, Alexandre A1 - Paul E. Baxter A1 - Bierman, Bert A1 - Henkemans, Olivier Blanson A1 - Mark A. Neerincx A1 - Rosemarijn Looije A1 - Yiannis Demiris A1 - Espinoza, Raquel Ros A1 - Mosconi, Marco A1 - Cosi, Piero A1 - Remi Humbert A1 - Lola Cañamero A1 - Hichem Sahli A1 - Joachim de Greeff A1 - James Kennedy A1 - Robin Read A1 - Lewis, Matthew A1 - Antoine Hiolle A1 - Giulio Paci A1 - Sommavilla, Giacomo A1 - Tesser, Fabio A1 - Athanasopoulos, Georgios A1 - Patsis, Georgios A1 - Verhelst, Werner A1 - Alberto Sanna A1 - Tony Belpaeme AB - We describe the social characteristics of a robot developed to support children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) in the process of education and care. We evaluated the perception of the robot at a summer camp where diabetic children aged 10-14 experienced the robot in group interactions. Children in the intervention condition additionally interacted with it also individually, in one-to-one sessions featuring several game-like activities. These children perceived the robot significantly more as a friend than those in the control group. They also readily engaged with it in dialogues about their habits related to healthy lifestyle as well as personal experiences concerning diabetes. This indicates that the one-on-one interactions added a special quality to the relationship of the children with the robot. JF - Proc. New Friends 2015 CY - Almere, The Netherlands UR - https://mheerink.home.xs4all.nl/pdf/ProceedingsNF2015-3.pdf N1 - Download full proceedings (PDF) ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Multimodal Child-Robot Interaction: Building Social Bonds JF - Journal of Human-Robot Interaction Y1 - 2012 A1 - Tony Belpaeme A1 - Paul E. Baxter A1 - Robin Read A1 - Rachel Wood A1 - Cuayáhuitl, Heriberto A1 - Kiefer, Bernd A1 - Racioppa, Stefania A1 - Kruijff-Korbayová, Ivana A1 - Athanasopoulos, Georgios A1 - Valentin Enescu A1 - Rosemarijn Looije A1 - Mark A. Neerincx A1 - Yiannis Demiris A1 - Raquel Ros-Espinoza A1 - Aryel Beck A1 - Lola Cañamero A1 - Lewis, Matthew A1 - Baroni, Ilaria A1 - Nalin, Marco A1 - Cosi, Piero A1 - Giulio Paci A1 - Tesser, Fabio A1 - Sommavilla, Giacomo A1 - Remi Humbert AB - For robots to interact effectively with human users they must be capable of coordinated, timely behavior in response to social context. The Adaptive Strategies for Sustainable Long-Term Social Interaction (ALIZ-E) project focuses on the design of long-term, adaptive social interaction between robots and child users in real-world settings. In this paper, we report on the iterative approach taken to scientific and technical developments toward this goal: advancing individual technical competencies and integrating them to form an autonomous robotic system for evaluation “in the wild.” The first evaluation iterations have shown the potential of this methodology in terms of adaptation of the robot to the interactant and the resulting influences on engagement. This sets the foundation for an ongoing research program that seeks to develop technologies for social robot companions. VL - 1 UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3109688.3109691 IS - 2 N1 - Download (Open Access) ER - TY - CONF T1 - Emotion in Decisions of Life and Death – Its Role in Brain-Body-Environment Interactions for Predator and Prey T2 - Artificial Life XII: Proc. of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems Y1 - 2010 A1 - O'Bryne, Claire A1 - Lola Cañamero ED - Harold Fellermann ED - Mark Dörr ED - Martin M Hanczy ED - Lone Ladegaard Laursen ED - Sarah Maurer ED - Daniel Merkle ED - Pierre-Alain Monnard ED - Kasper Støy ED - Steen Rasmussen AB - Taking inspiration from the biological world, in our work we are attempting to create and examine artificial predator-prey relationships using two LEGO robots. We do so to explore the possible adaptive value of emotion-like states for action selection in this context. However, we also aim to study and consider these concepts together at different levels of abstraction. For example, in terms of individual agents’ brain-body-environment interactions, as well as the (emergent) predator-prey relationships resulting from these. Here, we discuss some of the background concepts and motivations driving the design of our implementation and experiments. First, we explain why we think the predator-prey relationship is so interesting. Narrowing our focus to emotion-based architectures, this is followed by a review of existing literature, comparing different types and highlighting the novel aspects of our own. We conclude with our proposed contributions to the literature and thus, ultimately, the design and creation of artificial life. JF - Artificial Life XII: Proc. of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems PB - MIT Press CY - Odense, Denmark UR - https://mitpress-request.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/alife/0262290758chap141.pdf N1 - Download (Open Access) ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Emotion Modelling and Facial Affect Recognition in Human-Computer and Human-Robot Interaction T2 - Affective Computing, Emotion Modelling, Synthesis and Recognition Y1 - 2009 A1 - Lori Malatesta A1 - John C Murray A1 - Amaryllis Raouzaiou A1 - Antoine Hiolle A1 - Lola Cañamero A1 - Kostas Karpouzis ED - Mario I. Chacon-M. JF - Affective Computing, Emotion Modelling, Synthesis and Recognition PB - InTechOpen Publishers SN - 978-3-902613-42-4 UR - http://www.intechopen.com/books/state_of_the_art_in_face_recognition/emotion_modelling_and_facial_affect_recognition_in_human-computer_and_human-robot_interaction ER - TY - CONF T1 - The Influence of Social Interaction on the Perception of Emotional Expression: A Case Study with a Robot Head T2 - Advances in Robotics: Proc. FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009 Y1 - 2009 A1 - John C Murray A1 - Lola Cañamero A1 - Kim A. Bard A1 - Ross, Marina Davila A1 - Thorsteinsson, Kate ED - Kim, Jong-Hwan ED - Ge, Shuzhi Sam ED - Vadakkepat, Prahlad ED - Jesse, Norbert ED - Al Manum, Abdullah ED - Puthusserypady K, Sadasivan ED - Rückert, Ulrich ED - Sitte, Joaquin ED - Witkowski, Ulf ED - Nakatsu, Ryohei ED - Braunl, Thomas ED - Baltes, Jacky ED - Anderson, John ED - Wong, Ching-Chang ED - Verner, Igor ED - Ahlgren, David AB - In this paper we focus primarily on the influence that socio-emotional interaction has on the perception of emotional expression by a robot. We also investigate and discuss the importance of emotion expression in socially interactive situations involving human robot interaction (HRI), and show the importance of utilising emotion expression when dealing with interactive robots, that are to learn and develop in socially situated environments. We discuss early expressional development and the function of emotion in communication in humans and how this can improve HRI communications. Finally we provide experimental results showing how emotion-rich interaction via emotion expression can affect the HRI process by providing additional information. JF - Advances in Robotics: Proc. FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009 T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg CY - Incheon, Korea VL - 5744 SN - 978-3-642-03983-6 UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-03983-6_10 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - e-Tools: The use of Assistive Technologies to enhance disabled and senior citizens’ autonomy T2 - e-Health: Application of Computing Science in Medicine and Health Care Y1 - 2003 A1 - Cortés, Ulises A1 - Annicchiarico, Roberta A1 - Vázquez-Salceda, Javier A1 - Urdiales, Cristina A1 - Lola Cañamero A1 - Maite López A1 - Miquel Sànchez-Marrè A1 - Carlo Caltagirone ED - I Rudomín ED - J Vázquez-Salceda ED - J L Díaz de León Santiago AB - In this paper we present our preliminary ideas about the integration of several technologies to build specific e-tools for the disabled and for the new generation of senior citizens. ‘e-Tools’ stands for Embedded Tools, as we aim to embed intelligent assistive devices in homes and other facilities, creating ambient intelligence environments to give support to patients and caregivers. In particular, we aim to explore the benefits of the concept of situated intelligence to build intelligent artefacts that will enhance the autonomy of the target group during their daily life. We present here a multi-level architecture and our preliminary research on navigation schemes for a robotic wheelchair. JF - e-Health: Application of Computing Science in Medicine and Health Care PB - Instituto Politécnico National Press ER - TY - CONF T1 - Comparing a Voting-Based Policy with Winner-Takes-All to Perform Action Selection in Motivational Agents T2 - Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2002; Proc. 8th Ibero-American Conference on AI Y1 - 2002 A1 - Avila-García, Orlando A1 - Lola Cañamero ED - Garijo, Francisco J ED - Riquelme, José C ED - Toro, Miguel AB - Embodied autonomous agents are systems that inhabit dynamic, unpredictable environments in which they try to satisfy a set of time-dependent goals or motivations in order to survive. One of the problems that this implies is action selection, the task of resolving conflicts between competing behavioral alternatives. We present an experimental comparison of two action selection mechanisms (ASM), implementing "winner-takes-all" (WTA) and "voting-based" (VB) policies respectively, modeled using a motivational behavior-based approach. This research shows the adequacy of these two ASM with respect to different sources of environmental complexity and the tendency of each of them to show different behavioral phenomena. JF - Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2002; Proc. 8th Ibero-American Conference on AI T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science PB - Springer CY - Seville, Spain VL - 2527 SN - 978-3-540-00131-7 ER -