Robot teleoperation is crucial for many hazardous situations such as handling radioactive materials, undersea exploration and firefighting. Visual feedback is essential to increase the operator's situation awareness and thus accurately teleoperate a ...

We report on a user study that sought to understand how users program robot tasks by direct demonstration and what problems they encounter when using a state-of-the-art robot programming interface to create and edit robot programs. We discuss how our ...

A key area in human-robot interaction research is the use of a robot to collect participant research data. However, traditional website-based data collection methods do not intergrate with the robot providing the interaction. This leaves a clear ...

Devices with multiple modes increase user stress, workload, and error rate. Robots that operate at multiple levels of autonomy offer a wide range of functions, but may increase error. In this work, we develop and test multimodal interfaces to ...

This thesis summary presents research focused on incorporating high-level abstract behavioral requirements, called 'conceptual constraints', into the modeling processes of robot Learning from Demonstration (LfD) techniques. This idea is realized via an ...

Both affect and embodiment have enormous importance for the field of HRI, which is increasingly interested in how the manifestation of the forms of robot embodiment influences the emotional state of the user. Designing and evaluating the affectivity of ...

This second annual, full-day workshop aims to explore the metrology necessary for repeatably and independently assessing the performance of robotic systems in real-world human-robot interaction (HRI) scenarios. This workshop continues the motion toward ...