Communicating Robot Learning across Human-Robot Interaction
Description
Today’s robots are increasingly able to learn. From robot arms that learn from experience to autonomous cars that learn from demonstration, these systems fundamentally change their behaviors over time. While this learning improves the robot’s performance, it also presents a black box to nearby humans: what has the robot learned correctly, what is the robot still confused about, and how will the robot behave in the future? For seamless human-robot interaction we must communicate the robot’s learning to human partners.
This workshop explores communication by bringing together diverse experts from three perspectives. From a robot learning perspective, we must understand how to create algorithms that are inherently explainable and intuitive to human collaborators. From a communication interfaces perspective, we must develop haptics, augmented reality, nonverbal, and soft robotics mechanisms that convey information from the robot to the human. Finally, from a human modeling perspective, we must understand how humans perceive and interpret this feedback to construct mental models of learning robots. The main objectives of this workshop are i) to understand how each of these communities is separately trying to communicate robot learning, and then ii) to discuss how these separate advances should be combined in the future.
Invited Speakers
Call for Contributions
We invite submissions on late-breaking research at the intersection of human-robot interaction, communication, and robot learning. Examples of relevant topics include:
Collaborative HRI that relies on clear communication from the robot to the human
Algorithms for generating concise, clear communication
Novel communication interfaces, or user studies on the choice of communication interface
Modeling how communicating robot learning affects the human's mental model of the robot
Submissions should be in the form of 1 page extended abstracts. Contributions can be novel on-going work, recently published work, or collaborative and/or large scale projects.
Accepted submissions will be invited to give a spotlight talk and present a poster. These submissions will not be published, shared, or archived.
Travel Grants: We will award 10 travel grants of up to $500. Travel grants will be awarded to selected students with accepted submissions. To be considered, please fill out the relevant section of the submission form.
Submission form: https://forms.gle/Y8GHPMWkATaV4wWY7
Important Dates
We will accept submissions for Presentations & Travel Grants on a rolling basis starting: February 1
Final submission deadline for Presentations & Travel Grants: May 15 (23:59:59 PST)
Notification of Acceptance: Rolling
Workshop: May 29th
Schedule
8:30am Welcome
8:45am Angelo Cangelosi
9:15am Gentiane Venture
9:45am Harold Soh
10:15am Coffee Break
11:00am Aude Billard
11:30am Debate (Tom Erez & speakers)
12:30pm Lunch
1:45pm Marcia O'Malley
2:15pm Yiannis Demiris
2:45pm Spotlight Talks
3:15pm Poster Session
4:00pm Heather Culbertson
4:30pm Henny Admoni
5:00pm Dorsa Sadigh
5:30pm Wrap-up
Organizers
Contact
If you have any questions about this workshop, please contact:
Dylan Losey <losey@vt.edu>