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Dialogues with Social Robots

Author : Kristiina Jokinen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811025851
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Dialogues with Social Robots by : Kristiina Jokinen

Download or read book Dialogues with Social Robots written by Kristiina Jokinen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores novel aspects of social robotics, spoken dialogue systems, human-robot interaction, spoken language understanding, multimodal communication, and system evaluation. It offers a variety of perspectives on and solutions to the most important questions about advanced techniques for social robots and chat systems. Chapters by leading researchers address key research and development topics in the field of spoken dialogue systems, focusing in particular on three special themes: dialogue state tracking, evaluation of human-robot dialogue in social robotics, and socio-cognitive language processing. The book offers a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in both academia and industry whose work involves advanced interaction technology and who are seeking an up-to-date overview of the key topics. It also provides supplementary educational material for courses on state-of-the-art dialogue system technologies, social robotics, and related research fields.

Robust Processing of Spoken Situated Dialogue

Author : Pierre Lison
Publisher : Diplomica Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3836691132
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (366 download)

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Book Synopsis Robust Processing of Spoken Situated Dialogue by : Pierre Lison

Download or read book Robust Processing of Spoken Situated Dialogue written by Pierre Lison and published by Diplomica Verlag. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest for service robots endowed with communicative abilities. Such robots could take care of routine tasks, in homes, offices, schools or hospitals, help disabled or mentally impaired persons, serve as social companions for the elderly, or simply entertain us. They would assist us in our daily life activities. These robots are, by definition, meant to be deployed in social environments, and their capacity to interact naturally with humans is thus a crucial factor. The development of such "talking robots" led to the emergence of a new research field, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), which draws from a wide range of scientific disciplines such as artificial intelligence, robotics, linguistics and cognitive science. This work focuses on the issue of robust speech understanding - that is, how to process spoken dialogue automatically to extract the intended meaning. The book presents a new approach which combines linguistic resources with statistical techniques and context-sensitive interpretation to achieve both deep and robust spoken dialogue comprehension. The first part of the book provides a general introduction to the field of human-robot interaction and details the major linguistic properties of spoken dialogue, as well as some grammatical formalisms used to analyse them. The second part describes the approach itself, devoting one chapter to context-sensitive speech recognition for HRI, and one chapter to the robust parsing of spoken inputs via grammar relaxation and statistical parse selection. All the algorithms presented are fully implemented, and integrated as part of a distributed cognitive architecture for autonomous robots. A complete evaluation of our approach using Wizard-of-Oz experiments is also provided in this book. The results demonstrate very significant improvements in accuracy and robustness compared to the baseline.

Robots that Talk and Listen

Author : Judith Markowitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614519153
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Book Synopsis Robots that Talk and Listen by : Judith Markowitz

Download or read book Robots that Talk and Listen written by Judith Markowitz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robots That Talk and Listen provides a forward-looking examination of speech and language in robots from technical, functional, and social perspectives. Contributors address cultural foundations as well as the linguistic skills and technologies that robots need to function effectively in real-world settings. Among the most difficult and complex is the ability to understand and use language. Speech-enabled automata are already serving as interactive toys, teacher’s aides, and research assistants. These robots will soon be joined by personal companions, industrial co-workers, and military support automata. The social impact of these and other robots extends well beyond the specific tasks they perform. Contributors tackle the most knotty of those issues, notably acceptance of advanced, speech-enabled robots and developing ethical and moral controls for robots. Topics in this book include: • Language and Beyond: The True Meaning of “Speech Enabled” • Robots in Myth and Media • Enabling Robots to Converse • Language Learning by Automata • Handling Noisy Settings • Empirical Studies of Robots in Real-World Environments • Acceptance of Intelligent Robots • Managing Robots that Can Lie and Deceive • Envisioning a World Shared with Intelligent Robots

Social Robot with End-to-End Methods to Select Responses and Gestures in the Context of Hospital Receptionist

Author : Eui Jun Hwang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)

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Book Synopsis Social Robot with End-to-End Methods to Select Responses and Gestures in the Context of Hospital Receptionist by : Eui Jun Hwang

Download or read book Social Robot with End-to-End Methods to Select Responses and Gestures in the Context of Hospital Receptionist written by Eui Jun Hwang and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us in the near future will be working together with robots. In the context of Human Robot Interaction (HRI), the dialogue system has a vital role in interacting with users. The reason behind this is because of robots' capability of effectively gathering required information but also providing easy access to a variety of services useful to people. Depending on the objectives, the dialogue systems can be classified into two categories; task-oriented and chat-oriented. Task-oriented dialogue system aids users to achieve a specific goal, and chat-oriented dialogue system is designed for entertainment by having a casual chat with users. A robot with a task-oriented dialogue system is highly effective in terms of reducing time and effort when replaced with a human operator. This thesis focuses on task-oriented dialogue systems for HRI. To the best of our knowledge, dialogue systems in HRI have been developed based on conventional pipeline approach. It consists of separately developed components; natural language understanding, dialogue state tracking, dialogue policy, and natural language generation. Moreover, the robot's behaviour relies on purely rule-based methods that developers manually define such a gesture and facial expression on the corresponding dialogue states. However, the conventional approach faces several challenges yet. The most prominent challenges include the approach being expensive, time-consuming, high training cost on the separated modules and error propagation from one module to another. To overcome this limitation, researchers have strived to develop the end-to-end dialogue system recently. It is based on an idea that Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) can be directly trained on text transcripts of dialogues to represent distributed dialogue representations. In this thesis, we address the limitations of the conventional approach in HRI and propose the end-to-end approach. We employed Hybrid Code Network (HCN), which is a practical RNN based dialogue system. We also proposed an RNN based gesture selector to select the best-fitted gesture according to the response generated by the dialogue system. Therefore, the proposed system is enabled to learn how to make a response from dialogue corpus, and it demonstrates a proper gesture without manually being defined by the developer. We perform the system evaluation in a real user evaluation setting and make comparisons to the conventional method. Empirical result shows that our proposed system has benefits in terms of dialogue efficiency, which indicate how efficient users were in performing the given tasks with the help of the robot. Moreover, we achieved the same performance regarding the robot's gesture with the proposed method compared to manually defining gestures.

Social Robots: Technological, Societal and Ethical Aspects of Human-Robot Interaction

Author : Oliver Korn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030171078
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis Social Robots: Technological, Societal and Ethical Aspects of Human-Robot Interaction by : Oliver Korn

Download or read book Social Robots: Technological, Societal and Ethical Aspects of Human-Robot Interaction written by Oliver Korn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social robots not only work with humans in collaborative workspaces – we meet them in shopping malls and even more personal settings like health and care. Does this imply they should become more human, able to interpret and adequately respond to human emotions? Do we want them to help elderly people? Do we want them to support us when we are old ourselves? Do we want them to just clean and keep things orderly – or would we accept them helping us to go to the toilet, or even feed us if we suffer from Parkinson’s disease? The answers to these questions differ from person to person. They depend on cultural background, personal experiences – but probably most of all on the robot in question. This book covers the phenomenon of social robots from the historic roots to today’s best practices and future perspectives. To achieve this, we used a hands-on, interdisciplinary approach, incorporating findings from computer scientists, engineers, designers, psychologists, doctors, nurses, historians and many more. The book also covers a vast spectrum of applications, from collaborative industrial work over education to sales. Especially for developments with a high societal impact like robots in health and care settings, the authors discuss not only technology, design and usage but also ethical aspects. Thus this book creates both a compendium and a guideline, helping to navigate the design space for future developments in social robotics.

Social Robotics

Author : Shuzhi Sam Ge
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030052044
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Social Robotics by : Shuzhi Sam Ge

Download or read book Social Robotics written by Shuzhi Sam Ge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2018, held in Qingdao, China, in November 2018.The 60 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The theme of the 2018 conference is: Social Robotics and AI. In addition to the technical sessions, ICSR 2018 included 2 workshops:Smart Sensing Systems: Towards Safe Navigation and Social Human-Robot Interaction of Service Robots.

Friendship, Robots, and Social Media

Author : Alexis M. Elder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351659952
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Friendship, Robots, and Social Media written by Alexis M. Elder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various emerging technologies, from social robotics to social media, appeal to our desire for social interactions, while avoiding some of the risks and costs of face-to-face human interaction. But can they offer us real friendship? In this book, Alexis Elder outlines a theory of friendship drawing on Aristotle and contemporary work on social ontology, and then uses it to evaluate the real value of social robotics and emerging social technologies. In the first part of the book Elder develops a robust and rigorous ontology of friendship: what it is, how it functions, what harms it, and how it relates to familiar ethical and philosophical questions about character, value, and well-being. In Part II she applies this ontology to emerging trends in social robotics and human-robot interaction, including robotic companions for lonely seniors, therapeutic robots used to teach social skills to children on the autism spectrum, and companionate robots currently being developed for consumer markets. Elder articulates the moral hazards presented by these robots, while at the same time acknowledging their real and measurable benefits. In the final section she shifts her focus to connections between real people, especially those enabled by social media. Arguing against critics who have charged that these new communication technologies are weakening our social connections, Elder explores ways in which text messaging, video chats, Facebook, and Snapchat are enabling us to develop, sustain, and enrich our friendship in new and meaningful ways.

Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones

Author : Joseph Mariani
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461482801
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Book Synopsis Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones by : Joseph Mariani

Download or read book Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones written by Joseph Mariani and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings presents the state-of-the-art in spoken dialog systems with applications in robotics, knowledge access and communication. It addresses specifically: 1. Dialog for interacting with smartphones; 2. Dialog for Open Domain knowledge access; 3. Dialog for robot interaction; 4. Mediated dialog (including crosslingual dialog involving Speech Translation); and,5. Dialog quality evaluation. These articles were presented at the IWSDS 2012 workshop.

Conversational AI

Author : Michael McTear
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031021762
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Conversational AI written by Michael McTear and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Conversational AI. While the idea of interacting with a computer using voice or text goes back a long way, it is only in recent years that this idea has become a reality with the emergence of digital personal assistants, smart speakers, and chatbots. Advances in AI, particularly in deep learning, along with the availability of massive computing power and vast amounts of data, have led to a new generation of dialogue systems and conversational interfaces. Current research in Conversational AI focuses mainly on the application of machine learning and statistical data-driven approaches to the development of dialogue systems. However, it is important to be aware of previous achievements in dialogue technology and to consider to what extent they might be relevant to current research and development. Three main approaches to the development of dialogue systems are reviewed: rule-based systems that are handcrafted using best practice guidelines; statistical data-driven systems based on machine learning; and neural dialogue systems based on end-to-end learning. Evaluating the performance and usability of dialogue systems has become an important topic in its own right, and a variety of evaluation metrics and frameworks are described. Finally, a number of challenges for future research are considered, including: multimodality in dialogue systems, visual dialogue; data efficient dialogue model learning; using knowledge graphs; discourse and dialogue phenomena; hybrid approaches to dialogue systems development; dialogue with social robots and in the Internet of Things; and social and ethical issues.

Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade

Author : Luis Fernando D'Haro
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811583951
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Book Synopsis Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade by : Luis Fernando D'Haro

Download or read book Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade written by Luis Fernando D'Haro and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-24 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles and presents a synopsis on current global research efforts to push forward the state of the art in dialogue technologies, including advances to the classical problems of dialogue management, language generation, question answering, human–robot interaction, chatbots design and evaluation, as well as topics related to the human nature of the conversational phenomena such as humour, social context, specific applications for e-health, understanding, and awareness

HCI International 2022 - Late Breaking Papers. Multimodality in Advanced Interaction Environments

Author : Masaaki Kurosu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031176189
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book HCI International 2022 - Late Breaking Papers. Multimodality in Advanced Interaction Environments written by Masaaki Kurosu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume LNCS 13519 is part of the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2022, which was held virtually during June 26 to July 1, 2022. A total of 5583 individuals from academia, research institutes, industry, and governmental agencies from 88 countries submitted contributions, and 1276 papers and 275 posters were included in the proceedings that were published just before the start of the conference. Additionally, 296 papers and 181 posters are included in the volumes of the proceedings published after the conference, as “Late Breaking Work” (papers and posters). The contributions thoroughly cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas.

Understanding the Brain Function and Emotions

Author : José Manuel Ferrández Vicente
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030195910
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Brain Function and Emotions written by José Manuel Ferrández Vicente and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volume set LNCS 11486 and 11487 constitutes the proceedings of the International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2019, held in Almería, Spain,, in June 2019. The total of 103 contributions was carefully reviewed and selected from 190 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in two volumes, one on understanding the brain function and emotions, addressing topics such as new tools for analyzing neural data, or detection emotional states, or interfacing with physical systems. The second volume deals with bioinspired systems and biomedical applications to machine learning and contains papers related bioinspired programming strategies and all the contributions oriented to the computational solutions to engineering problems in different applications domains, as biomedical systems, or big data solutions.

Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction

Author : Erik Marchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981159323X
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Book Synopsis Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction by : Erik Marchi

Download or read book Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction written by Erik Marchi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles and presents a synopsis on current global research efforts to push forward the state of the art in dialogue technologies, including advances to language and context understanding, and dialogue management, as well as human–robot interaction, conversational agents, question answering and lifelong learning for dialogue systems.

9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology

Author : Luis Fernando D'Haro
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811394431
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Book Synopsis 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology by : Luis Fernando D'Haro

Download or read book 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology written by Luis Fernando D'Haro and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the outcomes of the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), “Towards creating more human-like conversational agent technologies”. It compiles and provides a synopsis of current global research to push forward the state of the art in dialogue technologies, including advances in the context of the classical problems of language understanding, dialogue management and language generation, as well as cognitive topics related to the human nature of conversational phenomena, such as humor, empathy and social context understanding and awareness.

Social Robotics

Author : Miguel A. Salichs
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030358887
Total Pages : 755 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Social Robotics written by Miguel A. Salichs and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2019, held in Madrid, Spain, in November 2019.The 69 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The theme of the 2018 conference is: Friendly Robotics.The papers focus on the following topics: perceptions and expectations of social robots; cognition and social values for social robots; verbal interaction with social robots; social cues and design of social robots; emotional and expressive interaction with social robots; collaborative SR and SR at the workplace; game approaches and applications to HRI; applications in health domain; robots at home and at public spaces; robots in education; technical innovations in social robotics; and privacy and safety of the social robots.

Artificial Intelligence in HCI

Author : Helmut Degen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031358945
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Artificial Intelligence in HCI written by Helmut Degen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-08 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This double volume book set constitutes the refereed proceedings of 4th International Conference, AI-HCI 2023, held as part of the 25th International Conference, HCI International 2023, which was held virtually in Copenhagen, Denmark in July 2023. The total of 1578 papers and 396 posters included in the HCII 2023 proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 7472 submissions. The first volume focuses on topics related to Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, explainability, transparency and trustworthiness, ethics and fairness, as well as AI-supported user experience design. The second volume focuses on topics related to AI for language, text, and speech-related tasks, human-AI collaboration, AI for decision-support and perception analysis, and innovations in AI-enabled systems.

Social Robotics

Author : Guido Herrmann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319026755
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Social Robotics written by Guido Herrmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2013, held in Bristol, UK, in October 2013. The 55 revised full papers and 13 abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions and are presented together with one invited paper. The papers cover topics such as human-robot interaction, child development and care for the elderly, as well as technical issues underlying social robotics: visual attention and processing, motor control and learning.