AASS Seminar - Collective Stance for Human Robot Interaction
20 May 2021 13:00 Zoom
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Alessandro Saffiotti
The research centre AASS arranges a seminar with Michele Persiani and Maitreyee Tewari, Umeå University.
Abstract
Some needs of human beings such as maintaining health inherently require a collective stance to deliberate or negotiate intentions with other humans or artificial agents. In the domain of social robotics, the collective stance for human-robot interaction can be formalized using a shared theory of mind. Humans complying with social robots allows them to understand their actions and to form (robotically) meaningful interactions. In this presentation we define the collective stance using two main dimensions, namely task and communication. These two are meshed in a dialogue manager that allows participants (a social robot and a human in our scenario) to mediate their intentions relative to a common task. Such structured mediation can happen in a number of ways, and here we utilise the framework of we-intentional modes from Tuomela and Miller (1988). We define dialogue strategies for we-mode and i-mode, which may or may not imply a collective stance towards the interaction.
Bio's
Michele Persiani is a PhD student at the Department of Computing Science at Umeå University where he recently got his Licentiate with title "Computational Models for Intent Recognition in Robotic Systems".
He come from Italy where he got his Master's Degree in Computer Science at Politecnico di Milano, in Milan. He also has recently been an Early Stage Researcher in the European Union's Horizon 2020 MSCA-ITN Project SOCRATES (concluded in 2020). In his current research he develops intent recognition algorithms using tools from automated planning and Bayesian modeling, that are usually complemented with a theory of mind setting on the side.
Maitreyee Tewari is a PhD student at the Department of Computing Science, Umeå University. She has also been Early Stage Researcher in European Union's Horizon 2020 MSCA-ITN Project SOCRATES. Before her PhD studies she worked as a data analyst for a Fintech start-up in Seynse Technologies, Goa, India. She was also a Research fellow in Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi, India. She has a MSc in Computing Science and International Business from University of Dundee, United Kingdom. A B.Tech in Information Technology from SSITM, Bhilai, India.
Her over-arching research objective is to create dialogue strategies following human-centric principles for interactions between human and companion robots. Currently, she is focusing on how to formalize and integrate Activity theoretical concepts of breakdown and focus shift situation (also called as miscommunications) in dialogues for HRI interactions.