Publications
Publications
Publications
Publication date:
April 2023
Type:
Conference paper
CHI 2023
Project
A study on the impact of
social robots on children’s
social relationships.
Funded by DigiWorld,
Jagiellonian University,
Kraków, Poland.
Are robots vegan? Unexpected behaviours in child-robot interactions
and their design implications
Alicja Wróbel
Karolina Źróbek
Bipin Indurkhya
Marie-Monique Schaper
Paulina Zguda
Artur Gunia
Abstract
A robot’s unexpected behaviors, such as a social faux pas or system errors, affect how a child perceives or interacts with the robot. In this study, we conducted two child-robot interaction workshops on active reading in a museum of modern art, and observed the behavior and attitudes of 18 children from two age groups (6-7 yrs and 10-12 yrs). The video and audio data from this event was analyzed to observe how children in a group respond to the robot’s unexpected behaviors. We extracted six different types of robot’s surprising behaviors: robot’s personality, movement malfunctions, inconsistent behavior, mispronunciation, delays and freezing. We analyzed how children in the younger and the older age groups respond to each of these behaviours, and what are the similarities and differences between the two groups. Based on this analysis, we suggest guidelines for designing age-appropriate learning interactions with social robots.
Publication date:
13 January 2020
Type:
Conference paper
ROMAN 2019
An Approach to Task Representation Based on Object Features
and Affordances
Paulina Zguda
Anna Kołota
Bipin Indurkhya
Abstract
In child-robot interaction, the element of trust towards the robot is critical. This is particularly important the first time the child meets the robot, as the trust gained during this interaction can play a decisive role in future interactions. We present an in-the-wild study where Polish kindergartners interacted with a Pepper robot. The videos of this study were analyzed for the issues of trust, anthropomorphization, and reaction to malfunction, with the assumption that the last two factors influence the children's trust towards Pepper. Our results reveal children's interest in the robot performing tasks specific for humans, highlight the importance of the conversation scenario and the need for an extended library of answers provided by the robot about its abilities or origin and show how children tend to provoke the robot.
Publication date:
12 August 2019
Type:
Conference paper
ICRA 2019
Adapting everyday manipulation skills to varied scenarios
Paweł Gajewski
Paulo Ferreira
Georg Bartels
Bartłomiej Śnieżynski
Abstract
We address the problem of executing tool-using manipulation skills in scenarios where the objects to be used may vary. We assume that point clouds of the tool and target object can be obtained, but no interpretation or further knowledge about these objects is provided. The system must interpret the point clouds and decide how to use the tool to complete a manipulation task with a target object; this means it must adjust motion trajectories appropriately to complete the task. We tackle three everyday manipulations: scraping material from a tool into a container, cutting, and scooping from a container. Our solution encodes these manipulation skills in a generic way, with parameters that can be filled in at run-time via queries to a robot perception module; the perception module abstracts the functional parts of the tool and extracts key parameters that are needed for the task. The approach is evaluated in simulation and with selected examples on a PR2 robot.
Publication date:
August 2019
Type:
Article
Is morality the last frontier for machines?
Bipin Indurkhya
Abstract
This paper examines some ethical and cognitive aspects of machines making moraldecisions in difficult situations. We compare the situations when humans have to maketough moral choices with those in which machines make such decisions. We argue that insituations where machines make tough moral choices, it is important to produce justificationfor those decisions that are psychologically compelling and acceptable by people.
Publication date:
24 October 2017
Type:
Conference paper
ICSR 2017
Dance with me! Child-robot interaction in the wild
Gentiane Venture
Bipin Indurkhya
Abstract
This paper presents the results of a singular experiment that has been conducted in a kindergarten in Japan. Four groups of ten children aged 3- to 5-year old interacted freely with the robot Pepper for about 20 min. In the first part of the experiment, the robot introduced itself to the children explaining a few basics. The children were then invited to touch the robot, to dance with it and finally to play with it freely while it was idle. Our experiment shows that regardless of the children’s age, they engage easily with the robot while it was talking and moving, however children of different ages have a different perception of the robot when it is idle. Younger children consider it more as a toy while older children are more likely to attribute a meaning to its idleness.
Publication date:
April 2023
Type:
Conference paper
CHI 2023
Project
A study on the impact of
social robots on children’s
social relationships.
Funded by DigiWorld,
Jagiellonian University,
Kraków, Poland.
Are robots vegan? Unexpected behaviours in child-robot interactions
and their design implications
Alicja Wróbel
Karolina Źróbek
Bipin Indurkhya
Marie-Monique Schaper
Paulina Zguda
Artur Gunia
Abstract
A robot’s unexpected behaviors, such as a social faux pas or system errors, affect how a child perceives or interacts with the robot. In this study, we conducted two child-robot interaction workshops on active reading in a museum of modern art, and observed the behavior and attitudes of 18 children from two age groups (6-7 yrs and 10-12 yrs). The video and audio data from this event was analyzed to observe how children in a group respond to the robot’s unexpected behaviors. We extracted six different types of robot’s surprising behaviors: robot’s personality, movement malfunctions, inconsistent behavior, mispronunciation, delays and freezing. We analyzed how children in the younger and the older age groups respond to each of these behaviours, and what are the similarities and differences between the two groups. Based on this analysis, we suggest guidelines for designing age-appropriate learning interactions with social robots.
Publication date:
13 January 2020
Type:
Conference paper
ROMAN 2019
An Approach to Task Representation Based on Object Features
and Affordances
Paulina Zguda
Anna Kołota
Mateusz Jarosz
Filip Sondej
Takamune Izui
Maria Dziok
Anna Belowska
Wojciech Jędras
Gentiane Venture
Bartłomiej Śnieżynski
Bipin Indurkhya
Abstract
In child-robot interaction, the element of trust towards the robot is critical. This is particularly important the first time the child meets the robot, as the trust gained during this interaction can play a decisive role in future interactions. We present an in-the-wild study where Polish kindergartners interacted with a Pepper robot. The videos of this study were analyzed for the issues of trust, anthropomorphization, and reaction to malfunction, with the assumption that the last two factors influence the children's trust towards Pepper. Our results reveal children's interest in the robot performing tasks specific for humans, highlight the importance of the conversation scenario and the need for an extended library of answers provided by the robot about its abilities or origin and show how children tend to provoke the robot.
Publication date:
12 August 2019
Type:
Conference paper
ICRA 2019
Adapting everyday manipulation skills to varied scenarios
Paweł Gajewski
Paulo Ferreira
Georg Bartels
Chaozheng Wang
Frank Guerin
Bipin Indurkhya
Michael Beetz
Bartłomiej Śnieżynski
Abstract
We address the problem of executing tool-using manipulation skills in scenarios where the objects to be used may vary. We assume that point clouds of the tool and target object can be obtained, but no interpretation or further knowledge about these objects is provided. The system must interpret the point clouds and decide how to use the tool to complete a manipulation task with a target object; this means it must adjust motion trajectories appropriately to complete the task. We tackle three everyday manipulations: scraping material from a tool into a container, cutting, and scooping from a container. Our solution encodes these manipulation skills in a generic way, with parameters that can be filled in at run-time via queries to a robot perception module; the perception module abstracts the functional parts of the tool and extracts key parameters that are needed for the task. The approach is evaluated in simulation and with selected examples on a PR2 robot.
Publication date:
August 2019
Type:
Article
Is morality the last frontier for machines?
Bipin Indurkhya
Abstract
This paper examines some ethical and cognitive aspects of machines making moraldecisions in difficult situations. We compare the situations when humans have to maketough moral choices with those in which machines make such decisions. We argue that insituations where machines make tough moral choices, it is important to produce justificationfor those decisions that are psychologically compelling and acceptable by people.
Publication date:
24 October 2017
Type:
Conference paper
ICSR 2017
Dance with me! Child-robot interaction in the wild
Gentiane Venture
Bipin Indurkhya
Abstract
This paper presents the results of a singular experiment that has been conducted in a kindergarten in Japan. Four groups of ten children aged 3- to 5-year old interacted freely with the robot Pepper for about 20 min. In the first part of the experiment, the robot introduced itself to the children explaining a few basics. The children were then invited to touch the robot, to dance with it and finally to play with it freely while it was idle. Our experiment shows that regardless of the children’s age, they engage easily with the robot while it was talking and moving, however children of different ages have a different perception of the robot when it is idle. Younger children consider it more as a toy while older children are more likely to attribute a meaning to its idleness.
Publication date:
April 2023
Type:
Conference paper
CHI 2023
Project
A study on the impact of
social robots on children’s
social relationships.
Funded by DigiWorld,
Jagiellonian University,
Kraków, Poland.
Are robots vegan? Unexpected behaviours in child-robot interactions
and their design implications
Alicja Wróbel
Karolina Źróbek
Bipin Indurkhya
Marie-Monique Schaper
Paulina Zguda
Artur Gunia
Abstract
A robot’s unexpected behaviors, such as a social faux pas or system errors, affect how a child perceives or interacts with the robot. In this study, we conducted two child-robot interaction workshops on active reading in a museum of modern art, and observed the behavior and attitudes of 18 children from two age groups (6-7 yrs and 10-12 yrs). The video and audio data from this event was analyzed to observe how children in a group respond to the robot’s unexpected behaviors. We extracted six different types of robot’s surprising behaviors: robot’s personality, movement malfunctions, inconsistent behavior, mispronunciation, delays and freezing. We analyzed how children in the younger and the older age groups respond to each of these behaviours, and what are the similarities and differences between the two groups. Based on this analysis, we suggest guidelines for designing age-appropriate learning interactions with social robots.
Publication date:
13 January 2020
Type:
Conference paper
ROMAN 2019
An Approach to Task Representation Based on Object Features
and Affordances
Paulina Zguda
Anna Kołota
Mateusz Jarosz
Filip Sondej
Takamune Izui
Maria Dziok
Anna Belowska
Wojciech Jędras
Gentiane Venture
Bartłomiej Śnieżynski
Bipin Indurkhya
Abstract
In child-robot interaction, the element of trust towards the robot is critical. This is particularly important the first time the child meets the robot, as the trust gained during this interaction can play a decisive role in future interactions. We present an in-the-wild study where Polish kindergartners interacted with a Pepper robot. The videos of this study were analyzed for the issues of trust, anthropomorphization, and reaction to malfunction, with the assumption that the last two factors influence the children's trust towards Pepper. Our results reveal children's interest in the robot performing tasks specific for humans, highlight the importance of the conversation scenario and the need for an extended library of answers provided by the robot about its abilities or origin and show how children tend to provoke the robot.
Publication date:
12 August 2019
Type:
Conference paper
ICRA 2019
Adapting everyday manipulation skills to varied scenarios
Paweł Gajewski
Paulo Ferreira
Georg Bartels
Chaozheng Wang
Frank Guerin
Bipin Indurkhya
Michael Beetz
Bartłomiej Śnieżynski
Abstract
We address the problem of executing tool-using manipulation skills in scenarios where the objects to be used may vary. We assume that point clouds of the tool and target object can be obtained, but no interpretation or further knowledge about these objects is provided. The system must interpret the point clouds and decide how to use the tool to complete a manipulation task with a target object; this means it must adjust motion trajectories appropriately to complete the task. We tackle three everyday manipulations: scraping material from a tool into a container, cutting, and scooping from a container. Our solution encodes these manipulation skills in a generic way, with parameters that can be filled in at run-time via queries to a robot perception module; the perception module abstracts the functional parts of the tool and extracts key parameters that are needed for the task. The approach is evaluated in simulation and with selected examples on a PR2 robot.
Publication date:
August 2019
Type:
Article
Is morality the last frontier for machines?
Bipin Indurkhya
Abstract
This paper examines some ethical and cognitive aspects of machines making moraldecisions in difficult situations. We compare the situations when humans have to maketough moral choices with those in which machines make such decisions. We argue that insituations where machines make tough moral choices, it is important to produce justificationfor those decisions that are psychologically compelling and acceptable by people.
Publication date:
24 October 2017
Type:
Conference paper
ICSR 2017
Dance with me! Child-robot interaction in the wild
Gentiane Venture
Bipin Indurkhya
Abstract
This paper presents the results of a singular experiment that has been conducted in a kindergarten in Japan. Four groups of ten children aged 3- to 5-year old interacted freely with the robot Pepper for about 20 min. In the first part of the experiment, the robot introduced itself to the children explaining a few basics. The children were then invited to touch the robot, to dance with it and finally to play with it freely while it was idle. Our experiment shows that regardless of the children’s age, they engage easily with the robot while it was talking and moving, however children of different ages have a different perception of the robot when it is idle. Younger children consider it more as a toy while older children are more likely to attribute a meaning to its idleness.
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