How do people teach robots tasks? Here, we focus on main methods and models enabling
humans to teach embodied social agents such as social robots, using natural interaction …

Social interaction will be key to enabling robots and machines in general to learn new tasks
from ordinary people (not experts in robotics or machine learning). Everyday people who …

In Socially Guided Machine Learning we explore the ways in which machine learning can
more fully take advantage of natural human interaction. In this work we are studying the role …

As robots have become lower-cost, more ubiquitous, and more capable, the importance of
enabling untrained users to interact with them has increased. Such robots have the potential …

Social learning in robotics has largely focused on imitation learning. Here we take a broader
view and are interested in the multifaceted ways that a social partner can influence the …

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) explores techniques for learning a task policy from
examples provided by a human teacher. The field of LfD has grown into an extensive body …

We are interested in developing Learning from Demonstration (LfD) systems that are tailored
to be used by everyday people. We highlight and tackle the issues of skill learning, task …

Traditionally the behaviour of social robots has been programmed. However, increasingly
there has been a focus on letting robots learn their behaviour to some extent from example …

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is a widely-used technique for programming robot
behavior. Despite its flexibility and applicability to a wide range of tasks, LfD is most typically …

Social learning in robotics has largely focused on imitation learning. Here we take a broader
view and are interested in the multifaceted ways that a social partner can influence the …