The 2nd Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob 2014)
Multimodal, multi-party, real-world human-robot interaction
Held as part of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2014)
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
16 November 2014
Workshop overview
The development of robots capable of interacting with humans has made tremendous progress in the last decade, leading to an expectation that in the near future, robots will be increasingly deployed in public spaces, for example as receptionists, shop assistants, waiters, or bartenders. In these scenarios, robots must necessarily deal with situations that require interactions that are short and dynamic, potentially with multiple persons at once.
To support this form of interaction, robots typically require specific skills, including robust video and audio processing, fast reasoning and decision making mechanisms, and natural and safe output path planning algorithms. This physically embodied, dynamic, real-world context is the most challenging possible domain for multimodal interaction: for example, the state of the physical environment may change at any time; the input sensors must deal with noisy and uncertain input; while the robot platform must combine interactive social behaviour with physical task-based action.
This workshop brings together researchers from a range of relevant disciplines to explore the challenges and solutions for multimodal human-robot interaction from different perspectives. This workshop is the third in a series of meetings organised around this theme.
Invited speakers
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland
Ryo Ishii, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kanagawa, Japan
Papers and slides
The official proceedings for this workshop are available from the ACM Digital Library. A workshop report is also available. (Note that the ACM has abbreviated this workshop MMRWHRI'14.)
Long paper: Towards Closed Feedback Loops in HRI: Integrating InproTK and PaMini [paper]
Birte Carlmeyer, David Schlangen, and Britta WredeLong paper: Attention Detection in Elderly People-Robot Spoken Interaction [paper]
Mohamed A. Sehili, Fan Yang, and Laurence DevillersLong paper: Advances in Wikipedia-based Interaction with Robots [paper]
Graham Wilcock and Kristiina JokinenLate-breaking abstract: Towards Proactive Robot Behavior Based on Incremental Language Analysis [paper]
Suna Bensch and Thomas HellströmLate-breaking abstract: Affective Feedback for a Virtual Robot in a Real-World Treasure Hunt [paper]
Mary Ellen Foster, Mei Yii Lim, Amol Deshmukh, Srini Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, and Ruth AylettLate-breaking abstract: Applying Topic Recognition to Spoken Language in Human-Robot Interaction Dialogues [paper]
Manuel Giuliani, Thomas Marschall, and Manfred TscheligiLate-breaking abstract: Selection of an Object Requested by Speech Based on Generic Object Recognition [paper]
Hitoshi Nishimura, Yuko Ozasa, Yasuo Ariki, and Mikio NakanoLate-breaking abstract: Applying Semantic Web Services to Multi-Robot Coordination [paper]
Yuhei Ogawa, Yuichiro Mori, and Takahira YamaguchiLate-breaking abstract: Clarification Dialogues for Perception-based Errors in Situated Human-Computer Dialogues [paper]
Niels Schuette, John Kelleher, and Brian Mac NameeLate-breaking abstract: Self-calibration of Attendance Device to Adapt to Different Users and Environments [paper]
Andrés Trujillo-León and Fernando Vidal-Verdú
Programme committee
Mary Ellen Foster, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Andre Gaschler, fortiss GmbH, Germany
Manuel Giuliani, University of Salzburg, Austria
Robin Hill, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Simon Keizer, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Sebastian Loth, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Kira Mourão, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Ron Petrick, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Markos Sigalas, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece
Zhuoran Wang, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Organisers
Mary Ellen Foster, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Manuel Giuliani, University of Salzburg, Austria
Ron Petrick, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
This workshop was organised in the context of the JAMES project (Grant no. 270435, 2011-2014), funded by the European Commission through the 7th Framework Programme.