Toddler Temperament Estimation from Robot Interaction Data
Through explainable machine learning (XAI), we analyze behavioral data from child-robot interactions to estimate toddlers’ temperament and personality. By clarifying in which …
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Tele-Communication Support Robots
We study how the embodiment and dialogue design of robots can support communication between geographically separated people. From remote childcare robots that scaffold infant …
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Shared Autonomy for Brain-Machine-Interface Teleoperation of Robots
Intent signals from brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) are inherently low-bandwidth and noisy, making fine-grained robot control difficult. We build shared autonomy frameworks in …
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Explanation Generation for Autonomous Robot Decision-Making
We build frameworks that let autonomous robots explain their decision-making processes and the underlying reasoning to people in an understandable way. Through distributed …
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Development and Application of Soft Tactile Sensors
We develop soft tactile sensors that enable rich bodily contact between robots and humans/environments. From multi-axis force sensors that combine magnetorheological elastomers …
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Active Inference Through Energy Minimization in Multimodal Affective Human-Robot Interaction
Based on the framework of active inference, we propose an energy-minimization approach to multimodal affective human-robot interaction. The proposed mechanism enables a robot to …
