Adaptive human–robot interaction in sensorimotor task instruction: From human to robot dance tutors

Adaptive human-robot interaction in sensorimotor task instruction: From human to robot dance tutors

We explore the potential for humanoid robots to interact with children in a dance activity. In this context, the robot plays the role of an instructor to guide the child through several dance moves to learn a dance phrase. We participated in 30 dance sessions in schools to study human-human interaction between children and a human dance teacher, and to identify the applied methodologies. Based ...

Robot learning of lexical semantics from sensorimotor interaction and the unrestricted speech of human tutors

This paper describes a HRI case study which demonstrates how a humanoid robot can use simple heuristics to acquire and use vocabulary in the context of being shown a series of shapes presented to it by a human and how the interaction style of the human changes as the robot learns and expresses its learning through speech. The case study is based on findings on how adults use childdirected speec...

Developing Adaptive Social Robot Tutors for Children

There has been a large body of research demonstrating that students that receive one-on-one tutoring perform, on average, significantly better than students learning via conventional classroom instruction when tested on the same material (Bloom 1984; VanLehn 2011). During tutoring, the teacher has the ability to tailor the instruction and support to the individual learner, creating a personaliz...

Experience-based learning of task representations from human-robot interaction

Task Patterns for Human-Robot Interaction

In this paper a new approach to task analysis, Task Pattern Analysis, is presented within the context of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Task Pattern Analysis is based on the observation that in many work tasks there are recurring patterns of activity, which only differ in the concepts that are affected. Furthermore, the tasks appear in different ways depending on the situational context. By app...