An overview of the distributed integrated cognition affect and reflection diarc architecture

M Scheutz, T Williams, E Krause, B Oosterveld… - Cognitive …, 2019 - Springer
DIARC has been under development for over 15 years. Different from other cognitive
architectures like SOAR or ACT-R, DIARC is an intrinsically component-based distributed …

Language-capable robots may inadvertently weaken human moral norms

RB Jackson, T Williams - 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Previous research in moral psychology and human-robot interaction has shown that
technology shapes human morality, and research in human-robot interaction has shown that …

Transparency through explanations and justifications in human-robot task-based communications

M Scheutz, R Thielstrom, M Abrams - International Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Transparent task-based communication between human instructors and robot instructees
requires robots to be able to determine whether a human instruction can and should be …

Cultural differences in indirect speech act use and politeness in human-robot interaction

S Seok, E Hwang, J Choi, Y Lim - 2022 17th ACM/IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
How do native English speakers and native Korean speakers politely make a request to a
robot? Previous human-robot interaction studies on English have demonstrated that humans …

Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality enabling of robot deixis

T Williams, N Tran, J Rands, NT Dantam - … , VAMR 2018, Held as Part of …, 2018 - Springer
When humans interact with each other, they often make use of deictic gestures such as
pointing to help pick out targets of interest to their conversation. In the field of Human-Robot …

" Thank You for Sharing that Interesting Fact!" Effects of Capability and Context on Indirect Speech Act Use in Task-Based Human-Robot Dialogue

T Williams, D Thames, J Novakoff… - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Naturally interacting robots must be able to understand natural human speech. As such,
recent work has sought to allow robots to infer the intentions behind commonly used non …

Language Artificial Intelligences' Communicative Performance Quantified Through the Gricean Conversation Theory

Y Nam, H Chung, U Hong - Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
This study pragmatically investigates an artificial intelligence (AI) speaker (AIS)'s verbal
communicative performance based on real AI–human conversation data. Specifically, this …

Differences in interaction patterns and perception for teleoperated and autonomous humanoid robots

M Bennett, T Williams, D Thames… - 2017 IEEE/RSJ …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the linguistic capabilities of interactive robots advance, it becomes increasingly important
to understand how humans will instruct robots through natural language. What is more, with …

Enabling morally sensitive robotic clarification requests

RB Jackson, T Williams - ACM Transactions on Human-Robot …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The design of current natural language-oriented robot architectures enables certain
architectural components to circumvent moral reasoning capabilities. One example of this is …

Understanding the spirit of a norm: Challenges for norm‐learning agents

T Arnold, M Scheutz - AI Magazine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Social and moral norms are a fabric for holding human societies together and hel** them
to function. As such they will also become a means of evaluating the performance of future …