The 1st Tutorial on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction
(PubRob 2011)
Joint action for social robotics: how to build a
robot that works together with several humans
Held as part of the
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2011)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
23 November 2011
Tutorial overview
Joint action, the coordination of individual actions by two or more
participants working on a common goal, is the basis of many everyday social
interactions between humans. However, even though humans engage in such
activities, seemingly with ease, how well are the mechanisms underlying such
behaviours understood? Can we build a robot that is able to work together
with humans?
The aim of this tutorial is to give an introduction to several key
technologies that are needed to build a human-robot joint action system. In
particular, we explore the topic of joint action from the viewpoint of
different research fields -including robotics, computer science, electrical
engineering, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics - all of which
we believe contribute to our understanding of joint action. This tutorial
will give a technical introduction to the software, tools, and methods that
we are using to construct a robot capable of working with humans, in the
context of JAMES, a European project exploring human-robot joint action and
social interaction.
The talks in this tutorial will cover a variety of topics at the heart of
joint action, including the collection and analysis of empirical data from
human-human joint action studies, the requirement analysis and
implementation of a robot capable of joint action with a human, algorithms
for visual processing of human head pose and gestures, grammar-based speech
processing and output generation, and knowledge-level planning with
incomplete information.
Talks and slides
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Introduction |
Tutorial introduction and overview
[slides]
Manuel Giuliani,
fortiss GmbH, Germany
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Tutorial talk |
Requirements for robot hardware and
architecture
[slides]
Manuel Giuliani,
fortiss GmbH, Germany
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Tutorial talk |
A software architecture for robot control and its
application to social robotics
[slides]
Andre Gaschler,
fortiss GmbH, Germany
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Tutorial talk |
Empirical data acquisition and analysis
[slides]
Kerstin Huth,
Universität Bielefeld, Germany
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Tutorial talk |
Visual processing for action recognition
[slides]
Maria Pateraki,
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece
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Tutorial talk |
Joint action for social robotics: natural
language communication
[slides]
Amy Isard,
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Tutorial talk |
Knowledge-level planning with incomplete
information
[slides]
Ron Petrick,
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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This tutorial was organised in the context of the
JAMES project
(Grant no. 270435, 2011-2014), funded by the
European Commission
through the
7th Framework Programme.