Image captioning is a technique used to generate descriptive captions for images. Typically,
it involves employing a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) as the encoder to extract visual …

The physical design of a robot suggests expectations of that robot's functionality for human
users and collaborators. When those expectations align with the true capabilities of the …

The creation of information transparency solutions to enable humans to understand robot
perception is a challenging requirement for autonomous and artificially intelligent robots to …

Ensuring the safety and efficiency of human workers in environments shared with
autonomous robots is of paramount importance. In this work we examine the behavior and …

Real-world deployment of new technology and capabilities can be daunting. The recent
DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge, for instance, aimed at the advancement of robotic …

This paper describes an interface that enables experts to communicate with a virtual robot in
a simulated environment via natural language, and to visualize the robot's knowledge …

Perceptions of gender are a significant aspect of human-human interaction, and gender has
wide-reaching social implications for robots deployed in contexts where they are expected to …

The increasing affordability of robot hardware is accelerating the integration of robots into
everyday activities. However, training a robot to automate a task typically requires physical …

This paper presents the first study evaluating methods in remote teleoperation of multi-robot
furniture for realistic applications. In a within-subjects user study (N= 12), we tested two robot …

Data physicalization enables people to represent and interact with data physically rather
than digitally. Physical representations afford visual analysis in comparable ways to …