We address the issue of human-robot cohabitation in smart environments. In particular, the presence of humans in a robot’s work space has a profound influence on how the latter should plan its actions. We propose the use of Human-Aware Planning, an approach in which the robot exploits the capabilities of a sensor-rich environment to obtain information about the (current and future) activities o...

Comparing intelligent robots interacting with humans is a difficult task. First of all, robotic helps in everyday life can be involved in different tasks. Additionally, the grade of autonomy of the robot and the type of interaction between human and robot may differ to a great extent. It also is an intricate task to design common metrics to assess human-robot interaction. Thus normal benchmarks...

An understanding of how both psychological and environmental factors mutually constrain skilled behavior is required to effectively support human activity. As a step toward meeting this need, a process model of skilled human interaction with a dynamic and uncertain environment is presented. The model was able to mimic human behavior in a laboratory task requiring oneand two-person crews to dire...

Smart environments offer interconnected sensors, devices, and appliances that can be considered for interaction to substantially extend the potentially available modality mix. This promises a more natural and situation aware human computer interaction. Technical challenges and differences in interaction principles for distinct modalities restrict multimodal systems to specialized systems that s...

The development of safety critical Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is highly dependent on human interaction and cognitive assessment. Despite this dependency, the human in the loop is seldom an integrated part of CPS development or tool chain. In this paper we propose a hybrid co-simulation environment, where hardware, software and models can be interconnected, making it possible to connect a huma...

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