Unfortunately, this workshop will be canceled due to the outbreak of COVID-19. March 12, 2020.
HRI 2020 (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction) workshop
The focus of robotics research is shifting from industrial robots to robots working in daily situations and one of the most important issues is to develop autonomous social robots capable to interact with and live together with humans, i.e., symbiotic robots with humans. For such a robot, an intuitive and natural way to interact with humans seems a crucial function. Recent advances of electric devices represented by smart speakers become able to operate via voice commands, however, the human-level dialogue has not been realized. That is, understanding of dialogue in everyday life poses different kinds of difficulties to the understanding of a written text using natural language processing methods.
In order to overcome this and to realize rich communication, an ability to understand the intention and/or demand of the user even when the words are not sufficient. When a person communicates with another, non-verbal communication plays an important role as well as verbal communication. Thus, the development of multimodal communication channels such as paralanguage is crucial to develop symbiotic robots. From this perspective, many researchers have been devoted to their efforts to develop communication technologies for robots.
The aim of this workshop is to introduce research activities in “Symbiotic Human-Robot Interaction,” and to widely discuss applications and necessary technologies of humanoids and androids, very human-like robots. For example, “What can we study with the very human-like robots?” and “What are the fundamental issues?”
“Opening and introduction of Android science”
“Human robot interaction in a daily environment”
“Spoken Dialogue System for Human-Robot Interaction”
"Talk with an android via video chat"
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