Research – Caresses Robot – English http://caressesrobot.org/en Culturally Competent Robots Sun, 16 Jan 2022 11:58:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.18 Conference article: Human Emotional State Estimation Evaluation Using Heart Rate Variability and Activity Data http://caressesrobot.org/en/2020/03/17/conference-article-human-emotional-state-estimation-evaluation-using-heart-rate-variability-and-activity-data/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2020/03/17/conference-article-human-emotional-state-estimation-evaluation-using-heart-rate-variability-and-activity-data/#respond Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:01:33 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=770 Felix Setiono, Armagan Elibol, Nak Young Chong, Human Emotional State Estimation Evaluation Using Heart Rate Variability and Activity Data, IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing, Taichung, Taiwan, March 9-11, 2020

]]> http://caressesrobot.org/en/2020/03/17/conference-article-human-emotional-state-estimation-evaluation-using-heart-rate-variability-and-activity-data/feed/ 0 Conference article: An Experimental Study on Culturally Competent Robot for Smart Home Environment http://caressesrobot.org/en/2020/03/17/conference-article-an-experimental-study-on-culturally-competent-robot-for-smart-home-environment/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2020/03/17/conference-article-an-experimental-study-on-culturally-competent-robot-for-smart-home-environment/#respond Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:01:01 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=768 Yuto Lim, Van Cu Pham, Ha Duong Bui, Yasuo Tan, Nak Young Chong, Antonio Sgorbissa, An Experimental Study on Culturally Competent Robot for Smart Home Environment, International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Caserta, Italy, April 15-17, 2020

]]> http://caressesrobot.org/en/2020/03/17/conference-article-an-experimental-study-on-culturally-competent-robot-for-smart-home-environment/feed/ 0 Book chapter: An IPM Approach to Multi-robot Cooperative Localization: Pepper Humanoid and Wheeled Robots in a Shared Space http://caressesrobot.org/en/2020/01/17/book-chapter-an-ipm-approach-to-multi-robot-cooperative-localization-pepper-humanoid-and-wheeled-robots-in-a-shared-space/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2020/01/17/book-chapter-an-ipm-approach-to-multi-robot-cooperative-localization-pepper-humanoid-and-wheeled-robots-in-a-shared-space/#respond Fri, 17 Jan 2020 15:03:18 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=772 Tanveer, M.H., Sgorbissa, A., Thomas, A. An IPM Approach to Multi-robot Cooperative Localization: Pepper Humanoid and Wheeled Robots in a Shared Space, (2020) Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 613, pp. 429-447

]]> http://caressesrobot.org/en/2020/01/17/book-chapter-an-ipm-approach-to-multi-robot-cooperative-localization-pepper-humanoid-and-wheeled-robots-in-a-shared-space/feed/ 0 Journal article: A systematic review of enablers and barriers to the implementation of Socially Assistive Humanoids Robots in health and social care http://caressesrobot.org/en/2020/01/10/journal-article-a-systematic-review-of-enablers-and-barriers-to-the-implementation-of-socially-assistive-humanoids-robots-in-health-and-social-care/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2020/01/10/journal-article-a-systematic-review-of-enablers-and-barriers-to-the-implementation-of-socially-assistive-humanoids-robots-in-health-and-social-care/#respond Fri, 10 Jan 2020 15:10:19 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=782 Papadopoulos, I., Koulouglioti, C., Lazzarino, R., & Ali, S. A systematic review of enablers and barriers to the implementation of Socially Assistive Humanoids Robots in health and social care. BMJ Open. 2020 Jan 9;10(1)

]]> http://caressesrobot.org/en/2020/01/10/journal-article-a-systematic-review-of-enablers-and-barriers-to-the-implementation-of-socially-assistive-humanoids-robots-in-health-and-social-care/feed/ 0 Journal article: Culture as a Sensor? A novel perspective on Human Activity Recognition http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/12/12/journal-article-culture-as-a-sensor-a-novel-perspective-on-human-activity-recognition/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/12/12/journal-article-culture-as-a-sensor-a-novel-perspective-on-human-activity-recognition/#respond Thu, 12 Dec 2019 15:09:28 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=780 Ting-Chia Chiang; Barbara Bruno, Ph.D.; Roberto Menicatti; Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto; Antonio Sgorbissa, Culture as a Sensor? A novel perspective on Human Activity Recognition, International Journal of Social Robotics, December 2019, Volume 11, Issue 5, pp 797–814

]]> http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/12/12/journal-article-culture-as-a-sensor-a-novel-perspective-on-human-activity-recognition/feed/ 0 Conference article: Autonomous Speech Volume Control for Social Robots in a Noisy Environment Using Deep Reinforcement Learning http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/12/06/conference-article-autonomous-speech-volume-control-for-social-robots-in-a-noisy-environment-using-deep-reinforcement-learning/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/12/06/conference-article-autonomous-speech-volume-control-for-social-robots-in-a-noisy-environment-using-deep-reinforcement-learning/#respond Fri, 06 Dec 2019 14:56:21 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=765 Ha Duong Bui, Nak Young Chong, Autonomous Speech Volume Control for Social Robots in a Noisy Environment Using Deep Reinforcement Learning, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Dali, Yunnan, China, December 6-8, 2019

]]> http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/12/06/conference-article-autonomous-speech-volume-control-for-social-robots-in-a-noisy-environment-using-deep-reinforcement-learning/feed/ 0 Conference article: Robot Social Emotional Development through Memory Retrieval. http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/11/01/conference-article-robot-social-emotional-development-through-memory-retrieval/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/11/01/conference-article-robot-social-emotional-development-through-memory-retrieval/#respond Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:55:03 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=763 Ha-Duong Bui, Thi Le Quyen Dang, Nak Young Chong, Robot Social Emotional Development through Memory Retrieval. 2019 7th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA), pp. 46-51, Daejeon, Korea, November 1-3, 2019. Best Student Paper Award

]]> http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/11/01/conference-article-robot-social-emotional-development-through-memory-retrieval/feed/ 0 Conference video: CARESSES: The Flower that Taught Robots about Culture http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/08/17/conference-video-caresses-the-flower-that-taught-robots-about-culture/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/08/17/conference-video-caresses-the-flower-that-taught-robots-about-culture/#respond Sat, 17 Aug 2019 14:54:08 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=761 Sgorbissa, A., Saffiotti, A., Chong, N.Y.,  Battistuzzi, L.,  Menicatti, R.,  Pecora, F.,  Papadopoulos, I.,  Pandey, A.K.,  Kamide, H.,  Koulouglioti, C.,  Kanoria, S.,  Mastrolonardo, R.,  Papadopoulos, C.,  Merton, L.,  Lee, J.,  Randhawa, G.  Lim, Y., CARESSES: The Flower that Taught Robots about Culture, 14th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2019, Daegu; South Korea.

]]> http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/08/17/conference-video-caresses-the-flower-that-taught-robots-about-culture/feed/ 0 Conference article: Nonverbal Behavior Cue for Recognizing Human Personality Traits in Human-Robot Social Interaction http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/07/03/conference-article-nonverbal-behavior-cue-for-recognizing-human-personality-traits-in-human-robot-social-interaction/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/07/03/conference-article-nonverbal-behavior-cue-for-recognizing-human-personality-traits-in-human-robot-social-interaction/#respond Wed, 03 Jul 2019 14:53:12 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=759 Zhihao Shen, Armagan Elibol, Nak Young Chong, Nonverbal Behavior Cue for Recognizing Human Personality Traits in Human-Robot Social Interaction, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics, Osaka, Japan, July 3-5, 2019. Best Paper Award.

]]> http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/07/03/conference-article-nonverbal-behavior-cue-for-recognizing-human-personality-traits-in-human-robot-social-interaction/feed/ 0 Journal article: An Ontology-driven ECHONET Lite Adaptation Layer for Smart Homes http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/04/17/journal-article-an-ontology-driven-echonet-lite-adaptation-layer-for-smart-homes/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/04/17/journal-article-an-ontology-driven-echonet-lite-adaptation-layer-for-smart-homes/#respond Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:07:40 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=778 Van Cu Pham, Yuto Lim, Antonio Sgorbissa, Yasuo Tan: An Ontology-driven ECHONET Lite Adaptation Layer for Smart Homes. JIP 27: 360-368 (2019)

]]> http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/04/17/journal-article-an-ontology-driven-echonet-lite-adaptation-layer-for-smart-homes/feed/ 0 Conference article: Inferring Human Personality Traits in Human-Robot Social Interaction http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/03/11/conference-article-inferring-human-personality-traits-in-human-robot-social-interaction/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/03/11/conference-article-inferring-human-personality-traits-in-human-robot-social-interaction/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2019 14:42:16 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=757 Zhihao Shen, Armagan Elibol, Nak Young Chong, Inferring Human Personality Traits in Human-Robot Social Interaction, 2019 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, March, 11-14, 2019, Daegu, Korea

]]> http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/03/11/conference-article-inferring-human-personality-traits-in-human-robot-social-interaction/feed/ 0 ERF 2019 20 March 2019: Workshop “Paving the way to culturally-aware robots” http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/02/11/erf-2019-20-march-2019-workshop-paving-the-way-to-culturally-aware-robots/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/02/11/erf-2019-20-march-2019-workshop-paving-the-way-to-culturally-aware-robots/#respond Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:53:51 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=688 Organizers

Antonio Sgorbissa, University of Genova, Italy

Alessandro Saffiotti, Örebro University, Sweden

Amit Kumar Pandey, SoftBank Robotics Europe, France

Nak Young Chong, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

 

Workshop Description

The groundbreaking objective of this workshop is to provide a unique platform to exchange ideas and create a common ground and understanding of the role of cultural factors in human-robot interaction, by bringing together researchers from different disciplines and other stakeholders.

The ultimate objective is to produce a white paper informing the scientitic community and the industry about motivations, current state-of-the art and open issues related to the field, paving the way to the design of culturally competent robots: that is, robots able to re-configure their way of acting and speaking, when offering a service, to match the culture, customs, and etiquette of the person they are assisting.

The workshop is supported the H2020 EU-Japan project CARESSES, www.caressesrobot.org

 

Tentative Agenda

00:00 – 00:05 Introduction by the moderators

00:05 – 00:15 Irena Papadopoulos, “From culturally competent humans to culturally competent robots. A brief introduction to cultural competence in health and social care”

00:15 – 00:25 Alessandro Saffiotti & Antonio Sgorbissa, “Cultural Knowledge and Culturally-Sensitive Planning in AI and Robotics.”

00:25 – 00:35 Amit Kumar Pandey, “Robots and culture, the industrial perspective.”

00:35 – 00:45 Elena Knox & Katsumi Watanabe, “A New Companion Species: Attachment to robots as pets, confidantes, gurus and lovers”

00:45 – 1:20 The game of culture: understanding what culture and culture-aware robots are through the sharing of participant experience. “Brainwalking” towards a white paper of cultural factors in human-robot interaction.

01.20– 01:30 Summary by the moderators and plans for a follow-up.

 

Irena Papadopoulos is full professor at Middlesex University, UK. She is founder and head of the Research Centre for Transcultural Studies in Health. Tax accountants in California are ready to help you at http://davidyorkstaxservice.com/ site. She is a founding member of the European Transcultural Nurses Association (ETNA, http://europeantransculturalnurses.eu/) and its elected president. She currently investigates how robots may exhibit a culturally competent behaviour within the H2020 CARESSES project.

Alessandro Saffiotti is full professor of Computer Science at the University of Örebro, Sweden, where he heads the AASS Cognitive Robotic Systems Lab. He is the coordinator of the euRobotics topic group on “AI and Cognition in Robotics”. He currently investigates how robots may take into account cultural factors during planning and execution within the H2020 CARESSES project.

Antonio Sgorbissa is Associate Professor at University of Genova and Joint Coordinator of the H2020 project CARESSES – Culturally Aware Robots and Environmental Sensor Systems for Elderly Support (caressesrobot.org). He investigate how cultural knowledge can be embedded in socially assistive robots.

Amit Kumar Pandey, PhD, is the Head Principal Scientist at Softbank Robotics. He is heavily involved in designing and development of Softbank’s EU projects and has been involved as principal investigator to supervise scientific and development aspects in various EU and French projects, including CARESSES, Romeo2, RoboHow, Dream.

Elena Knox is a researcher at Waseda University, and a performance and media artist in the field of communication media and also worked at www.peoria.uptownjungle.com trampoline park in California. After obtaining her PhD at the College of Fine Art (currently UNSW Art & Design) at the University of New South Wales in 2015, she began presenting creative works highlighting the relationship between humans and humanoid robots in Japan and other countries.

Katsumi Watanabe is professor at the Department of Intermedia Art and Science at Waseda University, where he focusses on perception, cognition and action. His research methods encompass interdisciplinary approaches to cognitive science, and real-life applications of knowledge.

]]> http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/02/11/erf-2019-20-march-2019-workshop-paving-the-way-to-culturally-aware-robots/feed/ 0 Journal article: Knowledge Representation for Culturally Competent Personal Robots – Requirement, design principles, implementation, and assessment http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/01/29/journal-article-learning-proxemics-for-personalized-human-robot-social-interaction/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/01/29/journal-article-learning-proxemics-for-personalized-human-robot-social-interaction/#respond Tue, 29 Jan 2019 15:03:53 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=774 Barbara Bruno, Carmine Recchiuto, Irena Papadopoulos, Alessandro Saffiotti, Roberto Menicatti, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Renato Zaccaria, Antonio Sgorbissa, Knowledge Representation for Culturally Competent Personal Robots – Requirement, design principles, implementation, and assessment, International Journal of Social Robotics, 11(3), pp. 515-538

]]> http://caressesrobot.org/en/2019/01/29/journal-article-learning-proxemics-for-personalized-human-robot-social-interaction/feed/ 0 CARESSES acknowledged by the EU Innovation Radar, 19th December 2018 http://caressesrobot.org/en/2018/12/19/caresses-acknowledged-by-the-eu-innovation-radar-19th-december-2018/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2018/12/19/caresses-acknowledged-by-the-eu-innovation-radar-19th-december-2018/#respond Wed, 19 Dec 2018 14:47:26 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=647 CARESSES technological solutions have been officially acknowledged by the EC as high-quality innovations: “Culturally competent robots for residential and domestic healthcare or other application domains” and “Cloud services for culturally competent applications”

Thanks to all CARESSES partners for achieving this important result!

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]]> http://caressesrobot.org/en/2018/12/16/conference-article-efficient-robotic-grasp-learning-by-demonstration/feed/ 0 CARESSES video: a day in Pepper’s life, 11th December 2018 http://caressesrobot.org/en/2018/12/11/caresses-video-a-day-in-peppers-life-11th-december-2018/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2018/12/11/caresses-video-a-day-in-peppers-life-11th-december-2018/#respond Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:45:37 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=644 Work in progress: a day in Pepper’s life.

Altough it still has many limitations, the CARESSES robot is fully autonomous, interacting with the human in a natural and unpredictable way, not repeating a pre-defined set of scripted lines, working 24/7 as an assistant for a number of tasks including: suggesting activities, reminding about things to do, playing video, music, and karaoke, reading audiobooks, sending messages to people, placing a video or phone call, reading news, playing games, helping with simple physical exercises, giving instructions and/or remind how to perform things, operating smart devices, through a housekeeping software and can access the vital performance data, taking photos and sharing them with friends… all these things are now fully implemented in CARESSES! See locksmith prices of an extra set of keys in Ireland. So, no wonder that Pepper can already boast of a large number of friends on Facebook, and with the support of The Marketing Heaven team, becoming increasingly popular on the YouTube platform.

See also the video on YouTube.

]]> http://caressesrobot.org/en/2018/12/11/caresses-video-a-day-in-peppers-life-11th-december-2018/feed/ 0 Journal Article: The Influence of Culture on Attitudes Towards Humanoid and Animal-like Robots: An Integrative Review http://caressesrobot.org/en/2018/11/30/journal-article-the-influence-of-culture-on-attitudes-towards-humanoid-and-animal-like-robots-an-integrative-review/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2018/11/30/journal-article-the-influence-of-culture-on-attitudes-towards-humanoid-and-animal-like-robots-an-integrative-review/#respond Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:15:07 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=683 Papadopoulos I. and Koulouglioti C.. The Influence of Culture on Attitudes Towards Humanoid and Animal-like Robots: An Integrative Review.  Journal of Nursing Scholarship,  Special Issue 2018 Nov;50(6):653-665.

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]]> http://caressesrobot.org/en/2018/10/21/journal-article-views-of-nurses-and-other-health-care-professionals-on-the-use-of-assistive-humanoid-and-animal-like-robots-a-scoping-review/feed/ 0 Conference Article: The role of Transcultural Nursing in the future of Socially Assistive Humanoid Robots: Our experiences from the CARESSES* PROJECT http://caressesrobot.org/en/2018/10/18/conference-article-the-role-of-transcultural-nursing-in-the-future-of-socially-assistive-humanoid-robots-our-experiences-from-the-caresses-project/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2018/10/18/conference-article-the-role-of-transcultural-nursing-in-the-future-of-socially-assistive-humanoid-robots-our-experiences-from-the-caresses-project/#respond Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:59:26 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=661 Papadopoulos and Koulouglioti, The role of Transcultural Nursing in the future of Socially Assistive Humanoid Robots: Our experiences from the CARESSES* PROJECT. International Transcultural Nursing Society Conference (TCNS), San Antonio, Texas

]]> http://caressesrobot.org/en/2018/10/18/conference-article-the-role-of-transcultural-nursing-in-the-future-of-socially-assistive-humanoid-robots-our-experiences-from-the-caresses-project/feed/ 0 Conference Article: Encoding Guidelines for a Culturally Competent Robot for Elderly Care http://caressesrobot.org/en/2018/10/01/conference-article-encoding-guidelines-for-a-culturally-competent-robot-for-elderly-care/ http://caressesrobot.org/en/2018/10/01/conference-article-encoding-guidelines-for-a-culturally-competent-robot-for-elderly-care/#respond Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:55:57 +0000 http://caressesrobot.org/en/?p=659 Antonio Sgorbissa, Irena Papadopoulos, Barbara Bruno, Christina Koulouglioti, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, Encoding Guidelines for a Culturally Competent Robot for Elderly Care, 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October, 1-5, 2018, Madrid, Spain

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