Using affect as a communication modality to improve human-robot communication in robot-assisted search and rescue scenarios

SA Akgun, M Ghafurian, M Crowley… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emotions can provide a natural communication modality to complement the existing multi-
modal capabilities of social robots, such as text and speech, in many domains. We …

Multimodal Prediction of User's Performance in High-Stress Dialogue Interactions

S Nasihati Gilani, K Pollard, D Traum - Companion Publication of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
High-Stress interactions include cases in which decisions must be made, communicated,
and agreed upon in a short amount of time to avoid dire consequences. Such interactions …

Using emotions to complement multi-modal human-robot interaction in urban search and rescue scenarios

SA Akgun, M Ghafurian, M Crowley… - Proceedings of the 2020 …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
An experiment is presented to investigate whether there is consensus in mapping emotions
to messages/situations in urban search and rescue scenarios, where efficiency and …

[PDF][PDF] Physical robot swarm testbed at ARL: Specifications and experimental design possibilities

J Humann, KA Pollard, SG Hill, OA Ayorinde, AN Foots… - 2019 - apps.dtic.mil
14. ABSTRACT The Arena for Indoor Research on Swarm-Human Interaction Performance
(AIRSHIP) testbed is a human–swarm interaction testbed located at ARL-West in Los …

Human swarm interaction using plays, audibles, and a virtual spokesperson

P Chaffey, R Artstein, K Georgila… - … Learning for Multi …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This study explores two hypotheses about human-agent teaming: 1. Real-time coordination
among a large set of autonomous robots can be achieved using predefined" plays" which …

[PDF][PDF] Identity Models for Role-Play Dialogue Characters

P Chaffey, D Traum - … of the 25th Workshop on the …, 2021 - semdial2021.ling.uni-potsdam.de
An ongoing challenge in dialogue systems is maintaining consistent personalities and
attributes throughout a conversation. To this end, our ongoing work aims to address this …

[PDF][PDF] Common Strategy Patterns of Persuasion in a Mission Critical and Time Sensitive Task

C To, S Nasihati Gilani, D Traum - 2023 - par.nsf.gov
We investigate different styles of approach to persuasion in high-stakes, time-critical
interactions. In human dialogue, there are generally multiple motivations underlying choices …

[PDF][PDF] Using reinforcement learning to manage communications between humans and artificial agents in an evacuation scenario

S Vaidyanath, K Georgila, D Traum - The Thirty-Third International …, 2020 - cdn.aaai.org
In search and rescue missions, robots can potentially help save survivors faster than human
emergency responders alone would. In our experimental virtual reality simulation …

[PDF][PDF] Human Point-to-point Reaching and Swarm-teaming Performance in Mixed Reality

C Zhao - 2021 - etd.ohiolink.edu
2.14 Each participant's linear fit from movement time data and effective index of difficulty IDe
across all 20 trials................. 44 2.15 Histogram of R2 values from all throughput linear …