#socialrobotics — Public Fediverse posts

Today at ICSR25 - 17th International Conference on Social Robotics, I presented the paper "RAGGAE for HERBS: Testing the Explanatory Performance of Ontology-powered LLMs for Human Explanation of Robotic Behaviors" by Agnese Augello, Edoardo Datteri, Antonio Lieto, Maria Rausa and Nicola Zagni

#ICSR2025

Title: RAGGAE for HERBS: Testing the Explanatory Performance of Ontology-powered LLMs for Human Explanation of Robotic Behaviors
Abstract:
In this work we present and test a RAG-based model called RAGGAE (i.e. RAG for the General Analysis of Explanans) tested in the context of Human Explanation of Robotic BehaviorS (HERBS).
The RAGGAE model makes use of an ontology of explanations, enriching the knowledge of state of the art general purpose Large Language Models like Google Gemini 2.0 Flash, DeepSeek R1 and GPT-4o. The results show that the combination of a general LLM with a symbolic, and philosophically grounded, ontology can be a useful instrument to improve the investigation, identification and the analysis of the types of explanations that humans use to verbalize - and make sense of - the behavior of robotic agents.

Paper: https://www.ciitlab.org/RAGGAE4HERBS_ICSR2025.pdf

System Live: https://www.ciitlab.org/agent.html

Index Terms: #artificialintelligence #HumanRobotInteraction #explanation #largelanguaagemodels #rag #socialrobotics #robots #humanexplanation #cognitivesystems #LLM

@academicchatter @cognition

And we continue #HAI2023 with the Interdisciplinary approaches in Human-AI interaction where I am going to present our extended abstract titled "From Corrective to Empowering Technologies: Integrating Critical Perspectives in Social Robotics for Autism".
You can look at the full abstract over there :
https://jrenoux.github.io/uploads/papers/interhai-2023-cei-jrx.pdf
#HAI#HRI #SocialRobotics

Very happy to see that our recent paper on how/if robot gaze affects human gaze behavior is gaining attention! Already 50 downloads and over 1800 views!

Link to paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2023.1127626/full

#HRI #SocialRobotics #robotics #ai

#shownotes for @gamesatwork_biz #podcast e423 are done, and publication set for tomorrow on https://www.gamesatwork.biz and all your favorite podcast feeds! Topics this week include #livmf23, #3DPrinting, #AR, #AI, #VR, #baseball, #HCI, #SocialRobotics and more! Be sure to subscribe!

Now that I know my companion robot can toot, I think I'll create an account for BMO to use on its own and improve the UX a bit. 😅
#AI #SocialRobotics #Robot
https://diode.zone/w/uoQLuhnWLnbUftXmbPSgMK

The International Journal of #SocialRobotics has published "A Communicative Perspective on Human–Robot Collaboration in Industry: Mapping Communicative Modes on Collaborative Scenarios", an article by Brigitte Krenn and Stephanie Gross.

Read more: https://www.ofai.at/news/2023-04-17sr

At the meeting of the French #robotics research group #GdRRobotique, I liked @Amp77’s presentation about #socialrobotics:
- #theoryofmind is a requirement
- social interaction model is based on Emergent dialogue […] (Antle et al., 2014) : https://doi.org/10.1145/2593968.2593971
- The FAtiMA toolkit is used for social decision-making : https://fatima-toolkit.eu/
- #AI Planning is used for social decision-making
- We wish mixing #machinelearning and expert models #ai, but for now we often use #woz

So it happens we just published a paper... What is it about?

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12369-022-00942-6

#PaperPublished #ReinforcementLearning #Robotics #Navigation #SocialRobotics

Hello HCI World!
Here is my #introduction.

I'm a #researcher in #CommunicationPlanning and #CollaborativeAI. I'm interested in all things #SocialRobotics, #HAI (Human-AI Interaction), #HMC (Human-Machine Communication), and #HumanMachineTeam.

I am one of the main organizers of the CHAI Workshop (https://chai-workshop.github.io/), which is trying to bridge the gap between #AI, #HCI, #HRI, and #CogSci communities.

I teach #AIEthics and #SoftwareEngineering.

#Introduction Looking forward to talk, learn and share here about all things #creativity. I research and teach about the #psychology and #digitization of creative thinking at Tilburg University and research situated #art and #design practice at St. Joost School of Art & Design. Further interests related to creativity include #psychology #neuroscience #HCI #socialrobotics

https://doi.org/10.1145/3511047.3537686
It is nice to see a complete system in the research community.
I hope it inspires the industry and the society : we know how to make useful machines more interactive.

Can you think about a machine that would be greatly improved with social interaction?
#hri #ai #robotics #socialrobotics

Some #ethics design principles for #socialrobotics: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tony-Prescott/publication/362014183_Designing_Socially_Assistive_Robots_A_Relational_Approach/links/62d112419b8b7d1f6f7124fa/Designing-Socially-Assistive-Robots-A-Relational-Approach.pdf
1. Promote contextual integrity
2. Develop honest anthropomorphism
3. Clearly signal the robot capacities
4. Be especially careful when designing for vulnerable users and/or for
“thick” relationships
#ai #robotics