Artificial Intelligence for

Human-Robot Interaction 2016

AAAI Fall Symposium Series

November 17-19, Arlington, VA, USA

Thu, 17th

Fri, 18th

Sat, 19th

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Introductions and Opening Remarks

Ross Mead and Dan Grollman

Keynote: Reid Simmons (National Science Foundation)

(35-min. talk + 10-min. Q&A)

Breakout Session and Discussion

Break

Full Talks (13-min. talk + 1 question):

Dimensionality Reduced Reinforcement Learning for Assistive Robots

William Curran, Tim Brys, David Aha, Matthew Taylor, and William D. Smart

SLIRS: Sign Language Interpreting System for Human-Robot Interaction

Nazgul Tazhigaliyeva, Yerniyaz Nurgabylov, German I. Parisi and

Anara Sandygulova

Resolution of Referential Ambiguity Using Dempster-Shafer Theoretic Pragmatics

Tom Williams and Matthias Scheutz

An HRI Approach to Feature Selection

Kalesha Bullard, Sonia Chernova, and Andrea Thomaz

Author Panel

(30-min. extended Q&A)

Lunch

Invited Speakers (30-min. talk + 30-min. Q&A):

Clara Diana, University of Pennsylvania

Wendy Ju, Stanford University

Breakout Session and Discussion

Break

Lightning Talks (2-min. talk):

Reasoning with Grounded Self-Symbols for Human-Robot Interaction

Justin Brody, Samuel Barham, Yue Dai, Christopher Maxey, Donald Perlis, David Sekora, Jared Shamwell

The Pragmatic Social Robot: Toward Socially-Sensitive Utterance Generation in Human-Robot Interactions

Gordon Briggs, Matthias Scheutz

Me and You Together: A study on collaboration in manipulation tasks

Miguel Faria, Rui Silva, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva

Human-Planned Robotic Grasp Ranges: Capture and Validation

Brendan John, Jackson Carter, Javier Ruiz, Sai Krishna Allani, Saurabh Dixit, Cindy M. Grimm, Ravi Balasubramanian

Automated Surveillance from a Mobile Robot

Wallace Lawson, Keith Sullivan, Esube Bekele, Laura M. Hiatt, Robert Goring, J. Gregory Trafton

Towards Behavior-Aware Model Learning from Human-Generated Trajectories

Robert Loftin, James MacGlashan, Bei Peng, Matthew E. Taylor, Michael L. Littman, David L. Roberts

Using General-Purpose Planning for Action Selection in Human-Robot Interaction

Ronald P. A. Petrick, Mary Ellen Foster

From Demonstrations to Skills for High-level Programming of Industrial Robots

Maj Stenmark, Elin A. Topp

Trust and Cooperation in Human-Robot Decision Making

Jane Wu, Erin Paeng, Kari Linder, Piercarlo Valdesolo, James C. Boerkoel Jr.

Applying Adaptive Control in Modeling Human Motion Behaviors in Reinforcement Robotic Learning from Demonstrations

Huan Tan, Yang Zhao, Balajee Kannan

A novel software combining Task and Motion Planning for Human-Robot Interaction

Jules Waldhart, Mamoun Gharbi, Rachid Alami

Towards Natural Dialogue with Robots: Bot Language

Matthew Marge, Claire Bonial, Kimberly A. Pollard, Cassidy Henry, Ron Artstein, Brendan Byrne, Susan G. Hill, Clare Voss, and David Traum

Poster Session

Break

Reception

9:00 - 10:00

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11:00 - 11:15

 

11:15 - 11:30

 

11:30 - 11:45

 

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16:30 - 16:45

 

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18:00 - 19:00

Invited Speakers (30-min. talk + 30-min. Q&A):

Alan Schultz, Naval Research Laboratory

Bill Smart, Oregon State University

Breakout Session and Discussion

Break

Full Talks (13-min. talk + 1 question):

Robot Perception of Human Groups in the Real World: State of the Art

Angelique Taylor and Laurel D. Riek

Safety in AI-HRI: Challenges Complementing User Experience Quality

Richard G. Freedman and Shlomo Zilberstein

Psychological Science in HRI: Striving for a more Integrated Field of Research

PatrĂ­cia Alves-Oliveira, Dennis Kuester, Arvid Kappas, and Ana Paiva

Appraisal of Statistical Practices in HRI vis-a-vis the T-Test for Likert Items/Scales

Matthew Gombolay and Ankit Shah

Author Panel

(30-min. extended Q&A)

Lunch

Invited Speakers (30-min. talk + 30-min. Q&A):

Charles Isbell, Georgia Institute of Technology

Michael Littman, Brown University

Breakout Session and Discussion

Break

Full Talks (13-min. talk + 1 question):

From Bot to Bot: Using a Chat Bot to Synthesize Robot Motion

Michael Fischer, Samir Menon, and Oussama Khatib

Socially-Aware Navigation: Action Discrimination to Select Appropriate Behavior

Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Meera Sebastian, and David Feil-Seifer

Explainable Agency in Human-Robot Interaction

Pat Langley

Early Turn-Taking Prediction in the Operating Room

Tian Zhou and Juan P. Wachs

Author Panel

(30-min. extended Q&A)

Break

Plenary Session

 

09:00 - 09:05

 

09:05 - 09:10

 

09:10 - 09:15

 

09:15 - 09:45

09:45 - 10:30

10:30 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:45

11:45 - 12:15

12:15 - 12:30

Tool Talks (5-min. talk + demo):

A Novel Software Combining Task and Motion Planning for Human-Robot Interaction

From Bot to Bot: Using a Chat Bot to Synthesize Robot Motion

Industry Insights

Ross Mead and Dan Grollman

Tool Evangelism

Robot Hack Session

Break

Robot Hack Session

Breakout Session and Discussion

Wrap-up and Closing Remarks

Ross Mead and Dan Grollman

Previous symposia:

AI-HRI 2014 | AI-HRI 2015

IMPORTANT DATES

Jun. 14th

Jul. 15th

Aug. 4th
 

Aug. 24th

Sep. 6th

Oct. 21st

Nov. 17th

Nov. 19th

submission site open

submission deadline

EXTENDED DEADLINE (23:59PM PDT)

notification of acceptance

camera-ready deadline

registration deadline

symposium begins

symposium ends