Essays about: "conversational robots"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words conversational robots.

  1. 1. Safe Reinforcement Learning for Social Human-Robot Interaction : Shielding for Appropriate Backchanneling Behavior

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Mohamed Akif; [2023]
    Keywords : Human-Robot Interaction; Backchanneling; Social Robots; Safe Reinforcement Learning; Shielding; Recurrent Neural Network; Gated Recurrent Unit; Människa-Robot Interaktion; Uppbackning; Sociala Robotar; Säker Förstärkningsinlärning; Avskärmning; Återkommande Neurala Nätverk; Gated Återkommande Enhet;

    Abstract : Achieving appropriate and natural backchanneling behavior in social robots remains a challenge in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). This thesis addresses this issue by utilizing methods from Safe Reinforcement Learning in particular shielding to improve social robot backchanneling behavior. READ MORE

  3. 2. Book-talks with Furhat : How can Interaction with Conversational Robots be Used to Motivate Swedish Middle Schoolers to Read?

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Marcus Jessen; [2022]
    Keywords : reading motivation; conversational robots; self-determination theory; novelty effect; Furhat; education;

    Abstract : In recent years, Swedish school children have experienced a decline in reading motivation. This is no less true for middle school students both in and outside of school. This thesis aims to find ways in which robot book-talks can be used in a school setting to motivate middle schoolers to read. READ MORE

  4. 3. Towards Automatic Generation of Personality-Adapted Speech and Emotions for a Conversational Companion Robot

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Alessio Galatolo; [2022]
    Keywords : Personality; Emotions; Human-Robot Interaction; Machine Learning; Large Language Models; Text-style transfer; GPT-3; STRAP; Personlighet; Känslor; Människa-robotinteraktion; Maskininlärning; Stora Språkmodeller; Överföring av text; GPT-3; STRAP;

    Abstract : Previous works in Human-Robot Interaction have demonstrated the positive potential benefit of designing highly anthropomorphic robots. This includes physical appearance but also whether they can express emotions, behave in a congruent manner, etc. READ MORE

  5. 4. AI as Gatekeepers to the Job Market : A Critical Reading of; Performance, Bias, and Coded Gaze in Recruitment Chatbots

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Karin Victorin; [2021]
    Keywords : data feminism; digital discrimination; AI recruitment; chatbots; facial recognition; AFEA; hiring tools; feminist technoscience studies; intersectionality; coded gaze; hiring bots; social robots; performance; AI technology ethics; theatre and AI; Augusto Boal; posthumanism; Donna Haraway; Karen Barad;

    Abstract : The topic of this thesis is AI recruitment chatbots, digital discrimination, and data feminism (D´Ignazio and F.Klein 2020), where I aim to critically analyze issues of bias in these types of human-machine interaction technologies. READ MORE

  6. 5. Understanding Robots : The Effects of Conversational Strategies on the Understandability of Robot-Robot Interactions from a Human Standpoint

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : Hung Chiao Chen; Saskia Weck; [2020]
    Keywords : human-robot interaction; understandability; conversational strategy; Grice’s maxims of informativeness; människa-robot kommunikation; förståelse; konversationsstrategi; Grices princip för informativitet;

    Abstract : As the technology develops and robots are integrating into more and more facets of our lives, the futureof human-robot interaction may take form in all kinds of arrangements and configurations. In this study, we examined the understandability of di erent conversational strategies in robot-robot communication from a human-bystander standpoint. READ MORE