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The impact of the contingency of robot feedback on HRI
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
In this paper, we investigate the impact the contingency of robot feedback may have on the quality of verbal human-robot interaction. In order to assess not only what the effects are but also what they are caused by, we ...
Tutor Spotter : Proposing a Feature Set and Evaluating It in a Robotic System
(2012-04-01)
From learning by observation, robotic research has moved towards investigations of learning by interaction. This research is inspired by findings from developmental studies on human children and primates pointing to the ...
Better be reactive at the beginning. Implications of the first seconds of an encounter for the tutoring style in human-robot-interaction
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012)
The paper investigates the effects of a robot's on-line feedback during a tutoring situation with a human tutor. Analysis is based on a study conducted with an iCub robot that autonomously generates its feedback (gaze, ...
Contingency scaffolds language learning
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012)
In human robot interaction the question how to communicate is an important one. The answer to this question can be approached through several perspectives. One approach to study the best way how a robot should behave in ...
From babbling towards first words : The emergence of speech in a robot in real-time interaction
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)
This paper describes a system that simulates word form acquisition without meaning as a preliminary stage in language acquisition, through interaction with a human teacher. The system extracts phonemes from the teacher's ...
Robots that say 'no'
(2011-01-01)
This paper reports on foundational considerations for experiments into the acquisition of human-like use and understanding of negation in linguistic utterances via a developmental robotics approach. For this purpose different ...
Contingency allows the robot to spot the tutor and to learn from interaction
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-01-01)
Aiming at artificial system learning from a human tutor elicit tutoring behavior, which we implemented on the robotic platform iCub. For the evaluation of the system with users, we considered a contingency module that is ...
Towards using prosody to scaffold lexical meaning in robots
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)
We present a case-study analysing the prosodic contours and salient word markers of a small corpus of robot-directed speech where the human participants had been asked to talk to a socially interactive robot as if it were ...
Integration of Action and Language Knowledge: A Roadmap for Developmental Robotics
(2010)
This position paper proposes that the study of embodied cognitive agents, such as humanoid robots, can advance our understanding of the cognitive development of complex sensorimotor, linguistic, and social learning skills. ...
A Constructivist Approach to Robot Language Learning via Simulated Babbling and Holophrase Extraction
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)
It is thought that meaning may be grounded in early childhood language learning via the physical and social interaction of the infant with those around him or her, and that the capacity to use words, phrases and their ...