The final version of the printed program is now available.
Keynote Speakers
- Rodney Brooks: Taking human robot interaction out of the lab into the daily world
- Hiroshi Ishii: The Art of Tangible Bits
Tuesday, March 6
| Time | Title | Authors | |
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| 7:30 | Registration open | ||
| 8:45 | HRI 2012 Welcome | Holly Yanco, Aaron Steinfeld | |
| 9:00 | Keynote Speaker | Rodney Brooks | |
| 10:15 | Break | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Papers: Robot Manipulation and Programming | Chair: Greg Trafton | |
| 10:30 | Strategies for Human-in-the-Loop Robotic Grasping |
Adam Leeper, Willow Garage; Stanford University Kaijen Hsiao, Willow Garage Matei Ciocarlie, Willow Garage Leila Takayama, Willow Garage David Gossow, Willow Garage; Technical University of Munich |
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| 10:50 | Teaching Robots How to Share: Grip Forces and Load Forces in Handovers |
Wesley Chan, University of British Columbia Chris Parker, University of British Columbia H.F. Machiel Van der Loos, University of British Columbia Elizabeth Croft, University of British Columbia |
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| 11:10 | Designing Robot Learners that Ask Good Questions |
Maya Cakmak, Georgia Institute of Technology Andrea L. Thomaz, Georgia Institute of Technology |
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| 11:30 | Robot Behavior Toolkit: Generating Effective Social Behaviors for Robots |
Chien-Ming Huang, University of Wisconsin–Madison Bilge Mutlu, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
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| 11:50 | Sketch: Multi-Role Human-Robot Interaction for Collaborative Robots | Stephanie Rosenthal, Carnegie Mellon University | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | ||
| 13:30-15:00 | Papers: Attitudes and Responses to Social Robots | Chair: Leila Takayama | |
| 13:30 | Do People Hold a Humanoid Robot Morally Accountable for the Harm It Causes? |
Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Department of Psychology, University of Washington Takayuki Kanda, Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, ATR Hiroshi Ishiguro, Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, ATR; Department of Systems Innovation, Osaka University Brian T. Gill, Department of Mathematics, Seattle Pacific University Jolina H. Ruckert, Department of Psychology, University of Washington Solace Shen, Department of Psychology, University of Washington Heather E. Gary, Department of Psychology, University of Washington Aimee L. Reichert, Department of Psychology, University of Washington Nathan G. Freier, Office Labs, Microsoft Rachel L. Severson, Department of Psychology, Western Washington University |
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| 13:50 | Social Facilitation with Social Robots? |
Nina Riether, Bielefeld University, Germany Frank Hegel, Bielefeld University, Germany Britta Wrede, Bielefeld University, Germany Gernot Horstmann, Bielefeld University, Germany |
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| 14:10 | New Measurement of Psychological Safety for Humanoid |
Hiroko Kamide, Osaka University Yasushi Mae, Osaka University Koji Kawabe, Honda R&D Co., Ltd. Satoshi Shigemi, Honda R&D Co., Ltd. Masato Hirose, Honda R&D Co., Ltd. Tatsuo Arai, Osaka University |
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| 14:30 | Consistency in Physical and On-screen Action Improves Perceptions of Telepresence Robots |
David Sirkin, Stanford University Wendy Ju, Stanford University |
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| 14:50 | Sketch: Gestonurse: A Robotic Surgical Assistant |
Juan Wachs, Purdue University Mithun Jacob, Purdue University Yu-Ting Li, Purdue University |
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| 15:00 | Break | ||
| 15:30-17:20 | Papers: Robot Wizards: Robot Operation and Interfaces | Chair: Michita Imai | |
| 15:30 | Real World Haptic Exploration for Telepresence of the Visually Impaired |
Chung Hyuk Park, Georgia Institute of Technology Ayanna M. Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology |
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| 15:50 | Effects of Changing Reliability on Trust of Robot Systems |
Munjal Desai, University of Massachusetts–Lowell Mikhail Medvedev, University of Massachusetts–Lowell Marynel Vázquez, Carnegie Mellon University Sean McSheehy, University of Massachusetts–Lowell Sofia Gadea-Omelchenko, University of Pittsburgh Christian Bruggeman, Carnegie Mellon University Aaron Steinfeld, Carnegie Mellon University Holly Yanco, University of Massachusetts–Lowell |
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| 16:10 | Teamwork in Controlling Multiple Robots |
Fei Gao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Missy Cummings, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Luca Bertuccelli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| 16:30 | Towards Human Control of Robot Swarms |
Andreas Kolling, University of Pittsburgh Steven Nunnally, University of Pittsburgh Mike Lewis, University of Pittsburgh |
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| 16:50 | Designing Interfaces for Multi-User, Multi-Robot Systems |
Adam Rule, University of Washington Jodi Forlizzi, Carnegie Mellon University |
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| 17:10 | Late Breaking Report Highlights | Astrid Weiss and Frank Broz | |
| 17:20 | End Paper Sessions | ||
| 18:00 | Poster Session and Reception | ||
| 21:00 | End of Day 1 | ||
Wednesday, March 7
| Time | Title | Authors |
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| 7:30 | Registration open | |
| 9:00 | Keynote Speaker: The Art of Tangible Bits | Hiroshi Ishii |
| 10:15 | Break | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Papers: Conversation and Proxemics | Chair: Kerstin Fischer |
| 10:30 | Generation of nodding, head tilting and eye gazing for human-robot dialogue interaction |
Chaoran Liu Carlos Ishi Hiroshi Ishiguro Norihiro Hagita |
| 10:50 | Designing Persuasive Robots: How Robots Might Persuade People Using Vocal and Nonverbal Cues |
Vijay Chidambaram, University of Wisconsin–Madison Yueh-Hsuan Chiang, University of Wisconsin–Madison Bilge Mutlu, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 11:10 | How Do People Walk Side-by-Side? – Using a Computational Model of Human Behavior for a Social Robot |
Luis Yoichi Morales Saiki, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories Satoru Satake, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories Rajibul Huq, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories Dylan Glas, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories Takayuki Kanda, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories Norihiro Hagita, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories |
| 11:30 | A Techno-sociological Solution for Designing a Museum Guide Robot: Regarding Choosing an Appropriate Visitor |
Akiko Yamazaki, Tokyo University of Technology Keiichi Yamazaki, Saitama University Takaya Ohayama, Saitama University Yoshinori Kobayashi, Saitama University Yoshinori Kuno, Saitama University |
| 11:50 | Sketch: Just Dewey it: Prototyping and in situ evaluation of a socially assistive robot for the office | Selma Sabanovic, Indiana University Bloomington, School of Informatics and Computing |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Panel: Robot Telepresence | Chairs: Stephen von Rump and Kate Tsui |
| 14:40 | Break | |
| 15:00-16:35 | Papers: Living and working with service robots | Chair: Astrid Weiss |
| 15:00 | Personalization in HRI: A longitudinal field experiment |
Min Kyung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University Jodi Forlizzi, Carnegie Mellon University Sara Kiesler, Carnegie Mellon University Paul Rybski, Carnegie Mellon University John Antanitis, Carnegie Mellon University Sarun Savetsila, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 15:20 | Exploring the role of robots in home organization |
Caroline Pantofaru, Willow Garage, Inc. Leila Takayama, Willow Garage, Inc. Tully Foote, Willow Garage, Inc. Bianca Soto, Willow Garage, Inc. |
| 15:40 | The Domesticated Robot: Design Guidelines for Assisting Older Adults to Age in Place |
Jenay Beer, School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology Cory-Ann Smarr, School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology Tiffany Chen, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Akanksha Prakash, School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology Tracy Mitzner, School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology Charles Kemp, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Wendy Rogers, School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 16:00 | Older Adults Engage in Privacy Enhancing Behaviors in a Home Monitored With Robots or Cameras |
Kelly Caine, Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing Selma Sabanovic, Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing Mary Carter, Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing |
| 16:20 | Sketch: Care-Receiving Robot to Promote Children’s Learning by Teaching | Fumihide Tanaka, University of Tsukuba |
| 16:30 | Break | |
| 16:45 | Papers: Robots for Children | Chair: Hideaki Kuzuoka |
| 16:45 | Children learning with a social robot |
Takayuki Kanda, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories Michihiro Shimada, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories Satoshi Koizumi, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories |
| 17:05 | Blended Reality Characters |
David Robert, MIT Media Lab Cynthia Breazeal, MIT Media Lab |
| 17:25 | Modeling empathic behaviour in a robotic game companion for children: an ethnographic study in real-world settings |
Iolanda Leite, INESC-ID and IST, Technical University of Lisbon Ginevra Castellano, University of Birmingham André Pereira, INESC-ID and IST, Technical University of Lisbon Carlos Martinho, INESC-ID and IST, Technical University of Lisbon Ana Paiva, INESC-ID and IST, Technical University of Lisbon |
| 17:45 | End of Day 2 | |
Thursday, March 8
| Time | Title | Authors |
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| 7:30 | Registration open | |
| 8:30 | Light Breakfast | |
| 9:30-11:30 | Papers: Animating Robot Behavior | Chair: Sonia Chernova |
| 9:30 | Enhancing Interaction Through Exaggerated Motion Synthesis |
Michael Gielniak, Georgia Institute of Technology Andrea Thomaz, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 9:50 | The Illusion of Robotic Life – Principles and Practices of Animation for Robots |
Tiago Ribeiro, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa Ana Paiva, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa |
| 10:10 | Trajectories and Keyframes for Kinesthetic Teaching: A Human-Robot Interaction Perspective |
Baris Akgun, Georgia Institute of Technology Maya Cakmak, Georgia Institute of Technology Jae Wook Yoo, Texas A&M University Andrea L. Thomaz, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 10:30 | HRI 2012 Video Session | Chairs: Martin Saerbeck and Wendy Ju |
| 11:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:00-14:20 | Papers: Perception and Recognition | Chair: Kai Oliver Arras |
| 13:00 | The Cocktail Party Robot: Sound Source Separation and Localization with an Active Binaural Head |
Antoine Deleforge, INRIA Radu Horaud, INRIA |
| 13:20 | Multi-party Human-Robot Interaction with Distant-Talking Speech Recognition |
Randy Gomez, Kyoto University Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University Keisuke Nakamura, Honda Research Institute – Japan Kazuhiro Nakadai, Honda Research Institute – Japan |
| 13:40 | Do you remember that shop? – Computational model of spatial memory for shopping companion robots |
Takahiro Matsumoto, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratory Satoru Satake, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratory Takayuki Kanda, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratory Michita Imai, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratory Norihiro Hagita, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratory |
| 14:00 | Color Anomaly Detection and Suggestion for Wilderness Search and Rescue |
Bryan Morse, Brigham Young University Daniel Thornton, Brigham Young University Michael Goodrich, Brigham Young University |
| 14:20 | Break | |
| 14:50-15:50 | Papers: Talking with Robots: Linguistics and Natural Language | Chair: Bilge Mutlu |
| 14:50 | Levels of Embodiment: Linguistic Analyses of Factors Influencing HRI |
Kerstin Fischer, University of Southern Denmark Katrin Lohan, Bielefeld University Kilian Fothm, University of Hamburg |
| 15:10 | Tell me when and why to do it!: Run-time planner model updates via natural language instruction |
Rehj Cantrell, Indiana University Kartik Talamadupula, Arizona State University Paul Schermerhorn, Indiana University J. Benton, Arizona State University Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University Matthias Scheutz, Tufts University |
| 15:30 | Talking with Robots about Objects: A System-Level Evaluation in HRI |
Julia Peltason, Applied Informatics Group, Bielefeld University, Germany Nina Riether, Cognition and Robotics Lab, Bielefeld University, Germany Britta Wrede, Applied Informatics Group, Bielefeld University, Germany Ingo Lütkebohle, Applied Informatics Group, Bielefeld University, Germany |
| 15:50 | Closing and Awards | |
| 16:10 | End Conference | |