" What's That Robot Doing Here?": Perceptions Of Incidental Encounters With Autonomous Quadruped Robots

E Hauser, YC Chan, P Chonkar, G Hemkumar… - Proceedings of the First …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Autonomous service robots in a public setting will generate hundreds of incidental human-
robot encounters, yet researchers have only recently addressed this important topic in …

Seeing-eye quadruped navigation with force responsive locomotion control

D DeFazio, E Hirota, S Zhang - Conference on Robot …, 2023‏ - proceedings.mlr.press
Seeing-eye robots are very useful tools for guiding visually impaired people, potentially
producing a huge societal impact given the low availability and high cost of real guide dogs …

Moral transparency as a mitigator of moral bias in conversational user interfaces

J Wester, M Lee, N Van Berkel - … of the 5th International Conference on …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
From straightforward interactions to full-fledged open-ended dialogues, Conversational User
Interfaces (CUIs) are designed to support end-user goals and follow their requests. As CUIs …

Purposeful failures as a form of culturally-appropriate intelligent disobedience during human-robot social interaction

CC Bennett, B Weiss - … Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent …, 2022‏ - Springer
Human-robot interaction (HRI) can suffer from breakdowns that are often regarded as
“failures” by roboticists. Here, however, we argue that such breakdowns can be sometimes …

See Spot Guide: Accessible Interfaces for an Assistive Quadruped Robot

R Hata, N Trikasemsak, A Giudice… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
While there is no replacement for the learned expertise, devotion, and social benefits of a
guide dog, there are cases in which a robot navigation assistant could be helpful for …

Intelligent disobedience: A novel approach for preventing human induced interaction failures in robot teleoperation

K Somasundaram, A Kiselev, A Loutfi - Companion of the 2023 ACM …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Failures are natural and unavoidable events in any form of interaction, especially in human-
robot interactions (HRI). Throughout the literature, the definition and classification of failures …

[PDF][PDF] Intelligent disobedience and AI rebel agents in assistive robotics

R Mirsky, P Stone - Proceedings of the ASIMOV workshop as part of …, 2021‏ - cs.utexas.edu
With the increasing integration of service robots into assistive technologies, there is a need
to reason about the boundaries and scope of these robots' autonomy, such as when they …

Only those who can obey can disobey: The intentional implications of artificial agent disobedience

T Arnold, G Briggs, M Scheutz - International Conference on Autonomous …, 2022‏ - Springer
Recent attention has been brought to robots that “disobey” or so-called “rebel” agents that
might reject commands. However, any discussion of autonomous agents that “disobey” risks …

Stubborn: An environment for evaluating stubbornness between agents with aligned incentives

R Rachum, Y Nakar, R Mirsky - arxiv preprint arxiv:2304.12280, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
Recent research in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has shown success in
learning social behavior and cooperation. Social dilemmas between agents in mixed-sum …

Theory of Mind Reasoning in Explanation, Plan Recognition, and Assistance: Theory and Practice

M Shvo - 2023‏ - search.proquest.com
With the rapid advancements in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years, one of
the longstanding goals of the field–building AI systems that are able to interact with other …