Expectations, Intentions, and Actions in Human-Robot Interaction

Understanding Activities and Intentions for Human-Robot Interaction

As robots move from the factory and into the daily lives of men, women, and children around the world, it is becoming increasingly clear that the skills they will require are vastly different from the majority of skills with which they were programmed in the 20th century. In fact, it would appear that many of these skills will center on the challenge of interacting with humans, rather than with...

Reciprocal Ascription of Intentions Realized in Robot-human Interaction

Instructions, Intentions and Expectations

Based on an ongoing attempt to integrate Natural Language instructions with human figure animation, we demonstrate that agents' understanding and use of instructions can complement what they can derive from the environment in which they act. We focus on two attitudes that contribute to agents' behavior their intentions and their expectations and shown how Natural Language instructions contribut...

Robot Signaling its Intentions in Human-Robot Teaming

Facilitating a shared team understanding is an important task in human-robot teaming. In order to achieve efficient collaboration between the human and robot, it requires not only the robot to understand what the human is doing, but also the robot’s behavior to be understood by the human. To address the latter problem, we propose an approach to signaling robot’s intentions by generating natural...

Forecasting: Expectations, Intentions, and Confidence

All three articles in my dissertation gather information from individuals, analyze it, and aggregate that information into forecasts of upcoming events. The motivation is to make forecasts more efficient (accurate and timely), more versatile (provide the most useful information for each stakeholder), and more economically efficient (equally or more efficient and versatile for less time and/or m...