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Article
Motion-based communication for robotic swarms in exploration missions
Many people are fascinated by biological swarms, but understanding the behavior and inherent task objectives of a bird flock or ant colony requires training. Whereas several swarm intelligence works focus on m...
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Article
Towards Engagement Models that Consider Individual Factors in HRI: On the Relation of Extroversion and Negative Attitude Towards Robots to Gaze and Speech During a Human–Robot Assembly Task
Estimating the engagement is critical for human–robot interaction. Engagement measures typically rely on the dynamics of the social signals exchanged by the partners, especially speech and gaze. However, the d...
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Interacting with Non-anthropomorphic Robotic Artworks and Interpreting Their Behaviour
Art installations involving robotic artifacts provide an opportunity to examine human relationships with robots designed solely for the purpose of sustaining evocative behaviours. In an attempt to determine th...
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Article
ACACIA-ES: an agent-based modeling and simulation tool for investigating social behaviors in resource-limited two-dimensional environments
In this paper, we describe a framework for studying social agents’ individual decision making, that takes account of the environment and social dynamics. We describe a study in which we explored the efficiency...
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Chapter
Towards Behavioral Objects: A Twofold Approach for a System of Notation to Design and Implement Behaviors in Non-anthropomorphic Robotic Artifacts
Among robots, non-anthropomorphic robotic artifacts are in an interesting position: the fact that they do not resemble living beings, yet impart a sense of agency through the way they move, motivates to consid...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
How Much Is “About”? Fuzzy Interpretation of Approximate Numerical Expressions
Approximate Numerical Expressions (ANEs) are linguistic expressions involving numbers and referring to imprecise ranges of values, such as “about 100”. This paper proposes to interpret ANEs as fuzzy numbers. A mo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Predicting Extraversion from Non-verbal Features During a Face-to-Face Human-Robot Interaction
In this paper we present a system for automatic prediction of extraversion during the first thin slices of human-robot interaction (HRI). This work is based on the hypothesis that personality traits and attitu...
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Chapter
(Mis)behavioral Objects
While the movement toward granting ever more power to users is very real, can we understand it not from the viewpoint of humans, but that of the objects? How can we design the empowerment of both users and obj...
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ACACIA: an agent-based program for simulating behavior to reach long-term goals
We present ACACIA, an agent-based program implemented in Java StarLogo 2.0 that simulates a two-dimensional microworld populated by agents, obstacles and goals. Our program simulates how agents can reach long-...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Understanding Actions: Contextual Dimensions and Heuristics
The aim of this paper is to analyze how people build an internal representation of actions done by others by matching observable data (objects, events, spatial and temporal context) with knowledge and by makin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Perceiving Action from Static Images: The Role of Spatial Context
In this paper we discuss the role of spatial context in interpreting and understanding actions from the perception of static images. Our proposal is that people use spatial context, which is to say the relatio...
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Reasoning based on categorisation for interpreting and acting: a first approach
Taking a detour to reach a goal is intelligent behavior based on making inferences. The main purpose of the present research is to show how such apparently complex behavior can emerge from basic mechanisms suc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Contextual Categorization: A Mechanism Linking Perception and Knowledge in Modeling and Simulating Perceived Events as Actions
The specific objective of this paper is to introduce the computer model ACACIA (Action by Contextually Automated Categorizing Interactive Agents) capable of simulating the way in which context is taken into ac...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Role of Context in Interpreting Perceived Events as Actions
In this paper we discuss the role of context in interpreting and understanding perceived events as actions carried out by other people. The context is defined both as temporal (relations between events) and as...
