It is natural and efficient to use human natural language (NL) directly to instruct robot task
executions without prior user knowledge of instruction patterns. Currently, NL-instructed …

Intention mining is a promising research area of data mining that aims to determine end-
users' intentions from their past activities stored in the logs, which note users' interaction with …

To provide timely and appropriate assistance, robots must have the capability of proactively
understanding a user's personal needs, the so-called human intention inference. In human …

Introduction of the assistive robot concept has created numerous ways to restore vital
degrees of independence for the elderly and disabled people on their Activities of Daily …

Intelligent robotic assistance requires a robot to accurately understand human behavior.
Many researchers have explored human-object interactions to decode behavior-related …

During the past 15 years, an increasing amount of works have investigated proactive robotic
behavior in relation to Human–Robot Interaction (HRI). The works engage with a variety of …

To provide the elderly with appropriate and timely caregiving in activities of daily life (ADL), it
is desired for robots to have the capability of intention awareness (IA). Different from existing …

Motivation As quality assurance is of strong concern in advanced surgeries, intelligent
surgical systems are expected to have knowledge such as the knowledge of the surgical …

Robotics is a cross-disciplinary branch of science and technology, and lays foundation on
mechanics, control, computer science, artificial intelligence, and so on. With the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use contexts of personal computing
devices in multiple steps and conducts an in-depth analysis for the use context of …