Reinforcement Learning Approaches in Social Robotics [PDF]
This article surveys reinforcement learning approaches in social robotics. Reinforcement learning is a framework for decision-making problems in which an agent interacts through trial-and-error with its environment to discover an optimal behavior.
Neziha Akalin, Amy Loutfi
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A Survey on Recent Advances in Social Robotics
Over decades, social robotics has evolved as a concept that presently covers different areas of application, and interacts with different domains in technology, education, medicine and others. Today, it is possible to envision social robots in tasks that
Karim Youssef +3 more
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The AMIRO Social Robotics Framework: Deployment and Evaluation on the Pepper Robot [PDF]
Recent studies in social robotics show that it can provide economic efficiency and growth in domains such as retail, entertainment, and active and assisted living (AAL).
Alexandra Ștefania Ghiță +7 more
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Bibliometric Analysis of Social Robotics Research: Identifying Research Trends and Knowledgebase
As robotics becomes ubiquitous, there is increasing interest in understanding how to develop robots that better respond to social needs, as well as how robotics impacts society. This is evidenced by the growing rate of publications on social robotics. In
Cristian Mejia, Yuya Kajikawa
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Critical geographies of social robotics
This short commentary calls for further geographic engagement with emerging trends in social robotics and human-robot interaction. While the proliferation of social robots in the spaces of everyday life raises numerous empirical, ethical, and political ...
Casey R. Lynch
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Telepresence Social Robotics towards Co-Presence: A Review
Telepresence robots are becoming popular in social interactions involving health care, elderly assistance, guidance, or office meetings. There are two types of human psychological experiences to consider in robot-mediated interactions: (1) telepresence ...
Jorge Dias, Paulo Menezes, Luis Almeida
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Deep Q-network for social robotics using emotional social signals [PDF]
Social robotics represents a branch of human-robot interaction dedicated to developing systems to control the robots to operate in unstructured environments with the presence of human beings. Social robots must interact with human beings by understanding
José Pedro R. Belo +3 more
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Crowd of Oz: A Crowd-Powered Social Robotics System for Stress Management. [PDF]
Coping with stress is crucial for a healthy lifestyle. In the past, a great deal of research has been conducted to use socially assistive robots as a therapy to alleviate stress and anxiety related problems.
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Transforming customer experience in social robotics through explainable and interpretable artificial intelligence over a decade [PDF]
Over the past decade, the field of social robotics has witnessed significant advancements in enhancing user experience (UX) and customer experience (CX) through the integration of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) and Interpretable Artificial ...
Anshu S. Arora +2 more
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Natural language generation for social robotics: opportunities and challenges. [PDF]
In the increasingly popular and diverse research area of social robotics, the primary goal is to develop robot agents that exhibit socially intelligent behaviour while interacting in a face-to-face context with human partners. An important aspect of face-
Foster ME.
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