It is well established that a robot's visual appearance plays a significant role in how it is
perceived. Considerable time and resources are usually dedicated to help ensure that the …

Robots that carry out tasks and interact in complex environments will inevitably commit
errors. Error detection is thus an important ability for robots to master, to work in an efficient …

In this paper, we analyze multimodal behavioral responses to robot failures across different
tasks. Two multimodal datasets are examined in which humans interact with guided-task …

Humans and robots will increasingly collaborate in domestic environments which will cause
users to encounter more failures in interactions. Robots should be able to infer …

Robots are moving from working in isolation to working with humans as a part of human-
robot teams. In such situations, they are expected to work with multiple humans and need to …

Social robots have a recognizable physical appearance, a distinct voice, and interact with
users in specific contexts. Previous research has suggested a 'matching hypothesis', which …

Conversational interfaces that interact with humans need to continuously establish, maintain
and repair common ground in task-oriented dialogues. Uncertainty, repairs and …

This paper presents an overview of robot failure detection work from HRI and adjacent fields
using failures as an opportunity to examine robot explanation behaviours. As humanoid …

Agent learning from human interaction often relies on explicit signals, but implicit social
cues, such as prosody in speech, could provide valuable information for more effective …

As robots become increasingly prevalent in human environments, there will inevitably be
times when the robot needs to interrupt a human to initiate an interaction. Our work …