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SuA1: 9:00-10:15

Horace Mann 138

Natural Language Interaction (Regular Session)

Chair: Yoshinori Kuno

Saitama Univ. 

09:00-09:12

SuA1.1

Analysis of Multi-Party Human Interaction towards a Robot Mediator

Hisato Fukuda

Yoshinori Kobayashi

Yoshinori Kuno

Akiko Yamazaki

Keiko Ikeda

Keiichi Yamazaki

Saitama Univ.

Saitama Univ.

Saitama Univ.

Tokyo Univ. of Tech.

Kansai Univ.

Saitama Univ.

09:12-09:24

SuA1.2

ERICA: The ERATO Intelligent Conversational Android

Dylan F. Glas

Takashi Minato

Carlos Toshinori Ishi

Tatsuya Kawahara

Hiroshi Ishiguro

ATR

ATR

ATR

Kyoto Univ.

Osaka Univ.

09:24-09:36

SuA1.3

Leveraging Phantom Signals for Improved Voice-Based Human-Robot Interaction

Randy Gomez

Yurii Vasylkiv

 Keisuke Nakamura

Takeshi Mizumoto

 Kazuhiro Nakadai

Honda Research

Inst. Ivano-Frankivsk Nat'l Tech. Univ. of Oil and Gas

Honda Research Inst.

Honda Research Inst.

Honda Research Inst.

09:36-09:48

SuA1.4

Maintaining Awareness of the Focus of Attention of a Conversation: A Robot-Centric Reinforcement Learning Approach

Marynel Vázquez

Aaron Steinfeld

Scott E. Hudson

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

09:48-10:00

SuA1.5

Spatial References and Perspective in Natural Language Instructions for Collaborative Manipulation

Rosario Scalise

Shen Li

Henny Admoni

Siddhartha Srinivasa

Stephanie Rosenthal

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

10:00-10:12

SuA1.6

Using Natural Language Feedback in a Neuro-Inspired Integrated Multimodal Robotic Architecture

Johannes Twiefel

Xavier Hinaut

Marcelo Borghetti Soares

Erik Strahl

Stefan Wermter

Univ. of Hamburg

INRIA

Univ. of Hamburg

Univ. of Hamburg

Univ. of Hamburg

 

SuA2: 9:00-10:15

Horace Mann 150

Recognizing Human Motion, Actions, and Activities (Regular Session)

Chair: Mihoko Niitsuma

Chuo Univ.

09:00-09:12

SuA2.1

Anticipating human activities from Object Interaction Cues

Joan Aranda

 Manuel Vinagre Ruiz

Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya

Inst. for Bioengineering of Catalonia

09:12-09:24

SuA2.2

Building a Human Behavior Map from Local Observations

Zhan Wang

 Patric Jensfelt

 John Folkesson

KTH Royal Inst. of Technology

KTH Royal Inst. of Technology

KTH Royal Inst. of Technology

09:24-9:36

SuA2.3

Human Motion Assessment in Real Time Using Recurrent Self-Organization

German Ignacio Parisi

Sven Magg

Stefan Wermter

Univ. of Hamburg

Univ. of Hamburg

Univ. of Hamburg

09:36-09:48

SuA2.4

(Changed to TuIVS.39)

Low-Cost Scene Modeling Using a Density Function Improves Segmentation Performance

Vivek Sharma

Şule Yildirim Yayilgan

 Luc Van Gool

ESAT-PSI/VISICS, KU Leuven

Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology

ETH Zurich

09:48-10:00

SuA2.5

Towards a Model for Automatic Action Recognition for Social Robot Companions

Ingo Keller

Markus Schmuck,

Katrin Solveig Lohan

Heriot-Watt Univ.

Heriot-Watt Univ.

Heriot-Watt Univ.

10:00-10:12

SuA2.6

Unified Robot Learning of Action Labels and Motion Trajectories from 3D Human Skeletal Data

Chi Zhang

Hao Zhang

Rui Guo

Lynne Parker

Univ. of Tennessee

Colorado School of Mines

Univ. of Tennessee

Univ. of Tennessee

 

SuA3: 9:00-10:15

Milbank Chapel (Zankel 125)

Haptic Interaction, Control, and Feedback

(Regular Session)

Chair: Chung Hyuk Park

 George Washington Univ.

09:00-09:12

SuA3.1

A Low-Cost Sensor Glove with Vibrotactile Feedback and Multiple Finger Joint and Hand Motion Sensing for Human-Robot Interaction

Paul Weber

Elmar Rueckert

Roberto Calandra

Jan Peters

Philipp Beckerle

TU Darmstadt

TU Darmstadt

TU Darmstadt

TU Darmstadt

TU Darmstadt

09:12-09:24

SuA3.2

Equipping the Baxter Robot with Human-Inspired Hand-Clapping Skills

Naomi Fitter

Katherine Kuchenbecker

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Univ. of Pennsylvania

09:24-9:36

SuA3.3

Haptic Wrist Guidance Using Vibrations for Human-Robot Teams

Marco Aggravi

Gionata Salvietti

Domenico Prattichizzo

Univ. of Siena

Univ. of Siena

Univ. of Siena

09:36-09:48

SuA3.4

Modeling the Interaction Force During a Haptically-Coupled Cooperative Manipulation

Ehsan Noohi

Milos Zefran

Univ. of Illinois at Chicago

Univ. of Illinois at Chicago

09:48-10:00

SuA3.5

Towards a Novel Generation of Haptic and Robotic Interfaces: Integrating Affective Physiology in Human-Robot Interaction

Matteo Bianchi

Gaetano Valenza

Alberto Greco

Mimma Nardelli

Edoardo Battaglia

Antonio Bicchi

Enzo Pasquale Scilingo

UIstituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Univ. of Pisa

Univ. of Pisa

Univ. of Pisa

Univ. of Pisa

UIstituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Univ. of Pisa

10:00-10:12

SuA3.6

Wrist and Grasp Myocontrol: Online Validation in a Goal-Reaching Task

Markus Nowak

Beatrice Aretz

Claudio Castellini

DLR

DLR

DLR

 

SuB1: 10:45-11:45

Horace Mann 138

Art and Aesthetic Interaction (Regular Session)

Chair: Wendy Ju

Stanford Univ.

10:45-10:57

SuB1.1

How Violinists Alter Sound Volume and Tempo When Expressing Bright and Dark Timbres

Koji Shibuya

Natsumi Hasegawa

Ryukoku Univ.

Ryukoku Univ.

10:57-11:09

SuB1.2

Integration Framework for Speech Processing with Live Visualization Interfaces

David Brodeur

Francois Grondin

Yazid Attabi

Pierre Dumouchel

Francois Michaud

Univ. de Sherbrooke

Univ. de Sherbrooke

Ctr. de Recherche Informatique de Montréal

École de Technologie Supérieure

Univ. de Sherbrooke

11:09-11:21

SuB1.3

Interacting with Curious Agents: User Experience with Interactive Sculptural Systems

Matthew Tsz Kiu Chan

Robert B. Gorbet

Philip Beesley

Dana Kulic

Univ. of Waterloo

Univ. of Waterloo

Philip Beesley Architect

Univ. of Waterloo

11:21-11:33

SuB1.4

Painting Creation Method by Impression Feedback to a Painting Generator from an Impression Estimator

Tetsuro Sato

Kotaro Hayashi

Ikuo Mizuuchi

Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Tech.

Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Tech.

Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Tech.

11:33-11:45

SuB1.5

Robot Humor: How Self-Irony and Schadenfreude Influence People’s Rating of Robot Likability

Nicole Mirnig

Susanne Stadler

Gerald Stollnberger

Manuel Giuliani

Manfred Tscheligi

Univ. of Salzburg

Univ. of Salzburg

Univ. of Salzburg

Univ. of Salzburg

Univ. of Salzburg

 

SuB2: 10:45-11:45

Horace Mann 150

Programming Robots (Regular Session)

Chair: Guy Hoffman

 Cornell Univ.

10:45-10:57

SuB2.1

ActBot: Sharing High-Level Robot AI Scripts

Clement Creusot

IBM Research Tokyo

10:57-11:09

SuB2.2

Augmented Reality for Industrial Robot Programmers: Workload Analysis for Task-based, Augmented Reality-supported Robot Control

Susanne Stadler

Kevin Kain

Manuel Giuliani

Nicole Mirnig

Gerald Stollnberger

Manfred Tscheligi

Univ. of Salzburg

Univ. of Salzburg

Univ. of Salzburg

Univ. of Salzburg

Univ. of Salzburg

Univ. of Salzburg

11:09-11:21

SuB2.3

Design and Evaluation of an End-User Friendly Tool for Robot Programming

Nina Buchina

Sherin Kamel

Emilia I. Barakova

Eindhoven Univ. of Technology

Eindhoven Univ. of Technology

Eindhoven Univ. of Technology

11:21-11:33

SuB2.4

Robot Programming by Non-Experts: Intuitiveness and Robustness of One-Shot Robot Programming

Eric M. Orendt

Myriel Fichtner

Dominik Henrich

Univ. of Bayreuth

Univ. of Bayreuth

Univ. of Bayreuth

11:33-11:45

SuB2.5

Simplified Industrial Robot Programming: Effects of Errors on Multimodal Interaction in WoZ Experiment

Zdeněk Materna

Michal Kapinus

Michal Spanel

Vitezslav Beran

Pavel Smrz

Brno Univ. of Technology

Brno Univ. of Technology

Brno Univ. of Technology

Brno Univ. of Technology

Brno Univ. of Technology

 

SuB3: 10:45-11:45

Milbank Chapel

(Zankel 125)

Interaction Strategies (Regular Session)

Chair: Mary Ellen Foster

 Univ. of Glasgow

10:45-10:57

SuB3.1

A Values-Based Dialogue Strategy to Build Motivation for Conversation with Autonomous Conversational Robots

Uchida Takahisa

Takashi Minato

Hiroshi Ishiguro

ATR, Osaka Univ.

ATR

ATR, Osaka Univ.

10:57-11:09

SuB3.2

Dynamic Generation and Refinement of Robot Verbalization

Vittorio Perera

Sai Selveraj

Stephanie Rosenthal

Manuela Veloso

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

11:09-11:21

SuB3.3

How to Improve Human-Robot Interaction with Conversational Fillers

Noel Wigdor

Joachim de Greeff

Rosemarijn Looije

Mark Neerincx

TNO Soesterberg

Delft Univ. of Tech.

TNO

TNO

11:21-11:33

SuB3.4

Referential Practices. Effects of a Museum Guide Robot Suggesting a Deictic 'Repair' Action to Visitors Attempting to Orient to an Exhibit

Karola Pitsch

Timo Dankert

Raphaela Gehle

Sebastian Wrede

Univ. of Duisburg-Essen

Bielefeld Univ.

Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Bielefeld Univ.

Bielefeld Univ.

11:33-11:45

SuB3.5

Speech Driven Trunk Motion Generating System Based on Physical Constraint

Kurima Sakai

Takashi Minato

Carlos Toshinori Ishi

Hiroshi Ishiguro

ATR, Osaka Univ.

ATR

ATR

ATR, Osaka Univ.

 

SuC1: 14:30-15:30

Horace Mann 138

K-12 Robotics: Young Future Researchers in Human-Robot Interactive Communication

 (Invited Session)

In this session, we invite local K-12 students that are young future researchers in HRI to come present their robots and work in a poster/demonstration format. We encourage all our RO-MAN conference attendees to come and interact with the next generation HRI researchers.

 

SuC2: 14:30-15:30

Horace Mann 150

Learning from Feedback and Environments (Regular Session)

Chair:

Fulvio Mastrogiovanni


Univ. of Genoa

14:30-14:42

SuC2.1

Analysis of Illumination Robustness in Long-Term Object Learning

Ingo Keller

Katrin Solveig Lohan

Heriot-Watt Univ.

Heriot-Watt Univ.

14:42-14:54

SuC2.2

Exploring Implicit Human Responses to Robot Mistakes in a Learning from Demonstration Task

Cory Hayes

Maryam Moosaei

Laurel D. Riek

Univ. of Notre Dame

Univ. of Notre Dame

Univ. of Notre Dame

14:54-15:06

SuC2.3

Grounding Action Parameters from Demonstration

Kalesha Bullard

Baris Akgun

Sonia Chernova

Andrea Lockerd Thomaz

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Univ. of Texas at Austin

15:06-15:18

SuC2.4

Training a Robot with Evaluative Feedback and Unlabeled Guidance Signals

Anis Najar

Olivier Sigaud

Mohamed Chetouani

Inst. des Sys. Intelligents et de Robotique

Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie

Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie

15:18-15:30

SuC2.5

What’s in a Primitive? Identifying Reusable Motion Trajectories in Narrated Demonstrations

Anahita Mohseni-Kabir

Sonia Chernova

Charles Rich

Victoria Wu

Worcester Poly. Inst.

Worcester Poly. Inst.

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Worcester Poly Inst.

 

SuC3: 14:30-15:30

Milbank Chapel (Zankel 125)

Interfaces (Regular Session)

Chair: Daniel Szafir

Univ. of Colorado Boulder

14:30-14:42

SuC3.1

Look Where You're Going: Visual Interfaces for Robot Teleoperation

Jim Vaughan

Don Kimber

Kratz Sven

FX Palo Alto Lab.

FX Palo Alto Lab.

FX Palo Alto Lab.

14:42-14:54

SuC3.2

Motion Synopsis for Robot Arm Trajectories

Daniel Rakita

Bilge Mutlu

Michael Gleicher

Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison

Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison

Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison

14:54-15:06

SuC3.3

Natural User Interface for Lighting Control: Case Study on Desktop Lighting Using Modular Robots

Mehmet Mutlu

Stephane Bonardi

Massimo Vespignani

Simon Hauser

Alexandre Bernardino

Auke Ijspeert

EPFL

EPFL

EPFL, BIOROB

EPFL, BIOROB

IST

EPFL

15:06-15:18

SuC3.4

Projecting Robot Intentions into Human Environments

Rasmus S. Andersen

Ole Madsen

Thomas B. Moeslund

Heni Ben Amor

Aalborg Univ.

Aalborg Univ.

Aalborg Univ.

Arizona State Univ.

15:18-15:30

SuC3.5

Realizing Mixed-Reality Environments with Tablets for Intuitive Human-Robot Collaboration for Object Manipulation Tasks

Jared Frank

Matthew Moorhead

Vikram Kapila

NYU

NYU

NYU

       

 

SuD1: 16:00-17:00

Horace Mann 138

K-12 Robotics: Young Future Researchers in Human-Robot Interactive Communication

 (Invited Session)

In this session, we invite local K-12 students that are young future researchers in HRI to come present their robots and work in a poster/demonstration format. We encourage all our RO-MAN conference attendees to come and interact with the next generation HRI researchers.

 

SuD2: 16:00-17:00

Horace Mann 150

SS: Assistive Technologies in Daily Living Environments (Special Session)

Chair: Kazuyoshi Wada

Co-Chair:

Mihoko Niitsuma

Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.

 

Chuo Univ.

16:00-16:12

SuD2.1

Analysis of Category Estimation for Cloud Based Chat Robot

Eri sato-Shimokawara

Yoko Shinoda

Tomoya Takatani

Haeyeon Lee

Kazuyoshi Wada

Toru Yamaguchi

Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.

Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.

Toyota Motor Co.

Toyota Motor Co.

Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.

Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.

16:12-16:24

SuD2.2

That Robot Is Not for Me: Addressing Stereotypes of Aging in Assistive Robot Design

Hee Rin Lee

Haodan Tan

Selma Sabanovic

Indiana Univ.

Indiana Univ.

Indiana Univ.

16:24-16:36

SuD2.3

Narratives and Emotions in Seniors Affected by Dementia: A Comparative Study Using a Robot and a Toy

Iolanda Iacono

Patrizia Marti

Univ. of Siena

Univ. of Siena

16:36-16:48

SuD2.4

Update of Human-Robot Relationship Based on Ethologically Inspired Human-Robot Communication History

Honoka Kanai

Mihoko Niitsuma

Chuo Univ.

Chuo Univ.

16:48-17:00

SuD2.5

Investigation of Appropriate Response Time for an Animal Type Robot

Kazuyoshi Wada

Yuhri Asano

Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.

Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.

       

 

SuD3: 16:00-17:00

Milbank Chapel

(Zankel 125)

Proxemics and Social Formation (Regular Session)

Chair: Frank Broz

Heriot-Watt Univ.

16:00-16:12

SuD3.1

A Fuzzy Data-Based Model for Human-Robot Proxemics

Tomasz Kosiński

Mohammad Obaid

Paweł Woźniak

Morten Fjeld

Jacek Kucharski

Łódź Univ. of Tech.

Koc Univ.

t2ilab

t2ilab

Łódź Univ. of Tech.

16:12-16:24

SuD3.2

Analysis of an Adaptive Strategy for Equitably Approaching and Joining Human Interactions

Vishnu K. Narayanan

Anne Spalanzani

Ren Luo

Marie Babel

INRIA

INRIA, UPMF

National Taiwan Univ.

IRISA

16:24-16:36

SuD3.3

Robots Learning How and Where to Approach People

 

Omar Adair

Islas Ramírez

Harmish Khambhaita

Raja Chatila

Mohamed Chetouani

 

Rachid Alami

Univ. Pierre Et Marie Curie

LAAS-CNRS

ISIR

Univ. Pierre Et Marie Curie

LAAS-CNRS

16:36-16:48

SuD3.4

Stop! That is Close Enough. How Body Postures Influence Human-Robot Proximity

Mohammad Obaid

Eduardo Sandoval

Jakub Zlotowski

Elena Moltchanova

Christina Anne Basedow

Christoph Bartneck

Koc Univ.

Univ. of Canterbury

Univ. of Canterbury

Univ. of Canterbury

Jacobs Univ. Bremen

Univ. of Canterbury

16:48-17:00

SuD3.5

Utilizing Bluetooth Low Energy to Recognize Proximity, Touch and Humans

Marcus  Scheunemann

Kerstin Dautenhahn

Maha Salem

Ben Robins

Univ. of Hertfordshire

Univ. of Hertfordshire

Univ. of Hertfordshire

Univ. of Hertfordshire