A survey of behavioral models for social robots

O Nocentini, L Fiorini, G Acerbi, A Sorrentino… - Robotics, 2019 - mdpi.com
The cooperation between humans and robots is becoming increasingly important in our
society. Consequently, there is a growing interest in the development of models that can …

A Concise Overview of Safety Aspects in Human-Robot Interaction

M Hamad, S Nertinger, RJ Kirschner… - … Workshop on Human …, 2023 - Springer
As of today, robots exhibit impressive agility but also pose potential hazards to humans
using/collaborating with them. Consequently, safety is considered the most paramount factor …

[PDF][PDF] Development of a metric to evaluate the ergonomic principles of assistive systems, based on the DIN 92419

FXM de Azevedo, R Heimgärtner, K Nebe - Ergonomics, 2023 - researchgate.net
The DIN 92419 defines six principles for assistive systems' ergonomic design. There is,
however, a lack of measurement tools to evaluate assistive systems considering these …

αPOMDP: POMDP-based user-adaptive decision-making for social robots

GS Martins, H Al Tair, L Santos, J Dias - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work we present α POMDP: a User-Adaptive Decision-Making technique for social
robots. This technique is based on the classical POMDP formulation which we extend with …

On designing expressive robot behavior: The effect of affective cues on interaction

A Aly, A Tapus - SN Computer Science, 2020 - Springer
Creating a convincing affective robot behavior is a challenging task. In this paper, we are
trying to coordinate between different modalities of communication: speech, facial …

[PDF][PDF] A context-aware adaptability model for service robots

GS Martins, P Ferreira, L Santos… - IJCAI-2016 Workshop on …, 2016 - academia.edu
This article presents a context-aware, adaptable service selection model for a social robot,
giving it the ability to estimate the user's expectation, assess the degree of satisfaction and …

Development of a metric to evaluate the ergonomic principles of assistive systems, based on the DIN 92419

F Xavier Macedo de Azevedo, R Heimgärtner… - Ergonomics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The DIN 92419 defines six principles for assistive systems' ergonomic design. There is,
however, a lack of measurement tools to evaluate assistive systems considering these …

Bum: Bayesian user model for distributed learning of user characteristics from heterogeneous information

GS Martins, L Santos, J Dias - IEEE transactions on cognitive …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a Bayesian user model able to learn and estimate user characteristics
in a distributed manner using heterogeneous information. A unified user representation is …

[PDF][PDF] Human posture recognition and gesture imitation with a humanoid robot

A Aly - arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.01779, 2020 - arxiv.org
Amir ALY Page 1 Master Thesis Report Human Posture Recognition and Gesture Imitation with
a Humanoid Robot By Amir ALY (Master Student- Université Pierre et Marie Curie- UPMC) …

A minimalistic approach to user group adaptation of robot behaviors using movement and speech analysis

MR Frederiksen, K Stoy - 2021 30th IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speech characteristics have shown potential as a tool to identify personality factors in
humans but usually demands longer interactions or elaborate sensor requirements. This …