The Robotics Reading Group transitioned to a new concept called Talking Robotics. Talking Robotics is a series of online talks about robotics and other relevant fields. To give a talk or to attend to a talk, visit us at Talking Robotics: https://talking-robotics.github.io

Contacts

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira (patricia.alves.oliveira (at) inesc-id.pt)
Miguel Vasco (miguelserrasvasco (at) gmail.com)
Joana Campos (joanacfcampos (at) gmail.com)
Silvia Tulli (silvia.tulli (at) gaips.inesc-id.pt)

Past Organizers

Kim Baraka
Filipa Correia

Format

The sessions are once every two weeks and are in the form of round-table discussions where everyone is encouraged to contribute and share ideas. The discussion will be guided and moderated by us, to facilitate the flow of ideas and ensure we get somewhere by the end of each session. Readings and meeting minutes will be posted online for your reference or in case you have to miss one of the sessions.

In the current edition of our meetings, participants have an active role in the selection of the papers. Therefore, we would love to hear your suggestions for the next papers!

Details

With the pandemic situation we are having virtual meetings on Zoom. If you wish to receive real-time updates do not hesitate to reach out to us by email.


Paper Schedule

Week 1 (27 May 2020)

Felipe Leno Da Silva, Garrett Warnell, Anna Helena Reali Costa & Peter Stone (2020) "Agents teaching agents: a survey on inter-agent transfer learning", Auton Agent Multi-Agent Syst 34

Presenter: Silvia Tulli

Moderators: Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Miguel Vasco

[minutes]


Week 2 (17 July 2020)

Michal Luria, Ophir Sheriff, Marian Boo, Jodi L. Forlizzi, Amit Zoran (2020) "Destruction, Catharsis, and Emotional Release in Human-Robot Interaction", ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction

Presenter: Patrícia Alves-Oliveira

Moderators: Silvia Tulli, Miguel Vasco

[minutes] - [video]


Week 3 (24 July 2020)

Giuseppe Paolo, Alban Laflaquière, Alexandre Coninx, Stephane Doncieux (2019). Unsupervised Learning and Exploration of Reachable Outcome Space.

Presenter: Giuseppe Paolo

Moderators: Silvia Tulli, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Miguel Vasco

[minutes] - [video]

Week 1 (4 October 2019)

GAIPS Meeting

Moderators: Miguel Vasco, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Silvia Tulli

[minutes]


Week 2 (18 October 2019)

Kick Off Robotics Reading Group

Moderators: Miguel Vasco, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Silvia Tulli

[minutes]


Week 3 (15 November 2019)

Kory-Westlund Jacqueline M., Breazeal Cynthia (2019), "Exploring the Effects of a Social Robot's Speech Entrainment and Backstory on Young Children's Emotion, Rapport, Relationship, and Learning", Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Presenter: Maha El Garf, Natalia Calvo Barajas

Moderators: Miguel Vasco, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Silvia Tulli

[minutes]


Week 4 (29 November 2019)

Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Silver, Andrei A. Rusu, Joel Veness, Marc G. Bellemare, Alex Graves, Martin Riedmiller, Andreas K. Fidjeland, Georg Ostrovski, Stig Petersen, Charles Beattie, Amir Sadik, Ioannis Antonoglou, Helen King, Dharshan Kumaran, Daan Wierstra, Shane Legg & Demis Hassabis (2015), "Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning", Nature

Presenter: João Ribeiro

Moderators: Silvia Tulli, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Miguel Vasco

[minutes]


Week 5 (13 December 2019)

Sarah Keren, Avigdor Gal, & Erez Karpas (2014) "Goal Recognition Design" Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling

Presenter: Rui Silva

Moderators: Miguel Vasco, Silvia Tulli and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira

[minutes]


Week 6 (17 January 2020)

Scheunemann, Marcus & Salge, Christoph & Dautenhahn, Kerstin (2019) "Intrinsically Motivated Autonomy in Human-Robot Interaction: Human Perception of Predictive Information in Robots" In book: Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems

Presenter: Filipa Correia

Moderators: Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Miguel Vasco, Joana Campos

[minutes]


Week 7 (31 January 2020)

Frank, Darius-Aurel & Chrysochou, Polymeros & Mitkidis, Panagiotis & Ariely, Dan (2019) "Human decision-making biases in the moral dilemmas of autonomous vehicles" Scientific Reports 9

Presenter: Raquel Oliveira

Moderators: Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Miguel Vasco, Joana Campos

[minutes]


Week 8 (14 February 2020)

Miguel Suguitan, Andy Gomez, & Guy Hoffman (2020) "MoveAE: Modifying Affective Robot Movements Using Classifying Variational Autoencoders", Cornell University and Honda Research Institute

Presenter: Miguel Vasco

Moderators: Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Joana Campos

[minutes]

Week 1 (8 Feb 2019) - 3 short papers

Rodney Brooks. 2018. “A Brave, Creative, and Happy HRI.” ACM Trans. Hum.-Robot Interact. 7, 1, Article 1 (May 2018), 3 pages. ACM

Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2018. “Some Brief Thoughts on the Past and Future of Human-Robot Interaction.” ACM Trans. Hum.-Robot Interact. 7, 1, Article 4 (May 2018), 3 pages. ACM

Maja Matarić. 2018. “On Relevance: Balancing Theory and Practice in HRI.” ACM Trans. Hum.-Robot Interact. 7, 1, Article 8 (May 2018), 2 pages. ACM

Moderators: Kim Baraka, Shruti Chandra and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira

[minutes]


Week 2 (22 Feb 2019)

Zoraida Callejas, David Griol, Ramón López-Cózar, 2014. A framework for the assessment of synthetic personalities according to user perception, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 72, Issue 7, Pages 567-583

Moderators: Kim Baraka, Shruti Chandra and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira

[minutes]


Week 3 (1 March 2019)

Choudhury Rohan, Swamy Gokul, Hadfield-Menell Dylan, Dragan Anca D., 2019. On the Utility of Model Learning in HRI, arXiv:1901.01291

Moderators: Kim Baraka, Shruti Chandra and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira

[minutes]


Week 4 (8 March 2019)

Porfirio, David, Allison Sauppé, Aws Albarghouthi, and Bilge Mutlu, 2018. Authoring and Verifying Human-Robot Interactions, In The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp. 75-86. ACM

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira

[minutes]


Week 5 (22 March 2019)

Nicholas Epley, Adam Waytz, and John T. Cacioppo, On Seeing Human: A Three-Factor Theory of Anthropomorphism, Psychological Review

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira

[minutes]


Week 6 (29 March 2019)

Phillips, Elizabeth, Xuan Zhao, Daniel Ullman, and Bertram F. Malle. "What is human-like?: Decomposing robots' human-like appearance using the anthropomorphic robot (abot) database." In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 105-113. ACM, 2018.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira

[minutes]


Week 7 (5 April 2019)

Takeshi Kimura, "Masahiro Mori’s Buddhist philosophy of robot." In Paladyn, J. Behav. Robot. 9:72–81. DeGruyter, 2018.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira

[minutes]


Week 8 (12 April 2019)

Be right back, Black Mirror Season 2 Episode 1, 48 min

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Patrícia Alves-Oliveira

[minutes]


Week 9 (26 April 2019)

Kätsyri, Jari & Förger, Klaus & Mäkäräinen, Meeri & Takala, Tapio. (2015). A review of empirical evidence on different uncanny valley hypotheses: Support for perceptual mismatch as one road to the valley of eeriness. Frontiers in psychology.

Moderators: Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Silvia Tulli

[minutes]


Week 10 (3 May 2019)

Tehmina Amjad, Ying Ding, Jian Xu, Chenwei Zhang, Ali Daud, Jie Tang, Min Song, (2017). Standing on the shoulders of giants, Journal of Informetrics, Volume 11, Issue 1

Moderators: Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Silvia Tulli

[minutes]


Week 11 (24 May 2019)

Santos, María & Egerstedt, Magnus. (2019). From Motions to Emotions: Can the Fundamental Emotions be Expressed in a Robot Swarm?.

Moderators: Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Silvia Tulli

[minutes]


Week 12 (31 May 2019)

A. Tabrez, S. Agrawal and B. Hayes, "Explanation-Based Reward Coaching to Improve Human Performance via Reinforcement Learning," 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Daegu, Korea (South), 2019, pp. 249-257. doi: 10.1109/HRI.2019.8673104

Moderators: Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Silvia Tulli

[minutes]


Week 13 (7 June 2019)

Rosenfeld, A. & Richardson, "Explainability in human−agent systems" A. Auton Agent Multi-Agent Syst (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-019-09408-y

Moderators: Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Silvia Tulli

[minutes]


Week 14 (21 June 2019)

Gobel S. and Wendel V. "Personalization and Adaptation" from the book "Serious Games: Foundations, Concepts and Practice" by from TU Darmstadt, Germany

Presenter: Samuel Gomes

Organizers: Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Silvia Tulli

[minutes]


Week 15 (12 July 2019)

Tom Hitron, Yoav Orlev, Iddo Wald, Ariel Shamir, Hadas Erel, and Oren Zuckerman. 2019. Can Children Understand Machine Learning Concepts?: The Effect of Uncovering Black Boxes. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 415, 11 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300645

Moderators: Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Silvia Tulli

[minutes]


Week 1 (22 Out 2018)

Goodrich, M.A. and Schultz, A.C., 2008. Human–robot interaction: a survey. Foundations and Trends® in Human–Computer Interaction, 1(3), pp.203-275.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 2 (29 Out 2018)

Eyssel, F., 2017. An experimental psychological perspective on social robotics. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 87, pp.363-371.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 3 (5 Nov 2018)

Mumm, J. and Mutlu, B., 2011, March. Human-robot proxemics: physical and psychological distancing in human-robot interaction. In Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction (pp. 331-338). ACM.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 4 (12 Nov 2018)

Bethel, C.L. and Murphy, R.R., 2010. Review of human studies methods in HRI and recommendations. International Journal of Social Robotics, 2(4), pp.347-359.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 5 (19 Nov 2018)

Chidambaram, V., Chiang, Y.H. and Mutlu, B., 2012, March. Designing persuasive robots: how robots might persuade people using vocal and nonverbal cues. In Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 293-300). ACM.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 6 (26 Nov 2018)

Meerbeek, B., Saerbeck, M. and Bartneck, C., 2009. Iterative design process for robots with personality. In Proceedings of the AISB2009 Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction Edingburgh pp (Vol. 94, p. 101).

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 7 (3 Dec 2018)

Greenberg, S. and Buxton, B., 2008, April. Usability evaluation considered harmful (some of the time). In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 111-120). ACM.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 8 (10 Dec 2018)

Rothenbücher, D., Li, J., Sirkin, D., Mok, B. and Ju, W., 2016, August. Ghost driver: A field study investigating the interaction between pedestrians and driverless vehicles. In Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on (pp. 795-802). IEEE.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 1 (23 Feb 2018)

Liu, P., Glas, D.F., Kanda, T. and Ishiguro, H., 2016. Data-driven HRI: Learning social behaviors by example from human-human interaction. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 32(4), pp.988-1008.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 2 (2 Mar 2018)

Gnatzig, S., Schuller, F. and Lienkamp, M., 2012, September. Human-machine interaction as key technology for driverless driving-A trajectory-based shared autonomy control approach. In RO-MAN, 2012 IEEE (pp. 913-918). IEEE.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 3 (16 Mar 2018)

Huang, C.M. and Mutlu, B., 2016, March. Anticipatory robot control for efficient human-robot collaboration. In The Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (pp. 83-90). IEEE Press.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 4 (23 Mar 2018)

Admoni, H., Weng, T., Hayes, B. and Scassellati, B., 2016, March. Robot nonverbal behavior improves task performance in difficult collaborations. In The Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (pp. 51-58). IEEE Press.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 5 (6 Apr 2018)

Kwon, M., Huang, S.H. and Dragan, A.D., 2018, February. Expressing Robot Incapability. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 87-95). ACM.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 6 (13 Apr 2018)

Barnlund, D.C., 2011. Communication: The context of change. In Communication theory (pp. 6-24).

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 7 (20 Apr 2018)

Kahn Jr, P.H., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., Gill, B.T., Shen, S., Gary, H.E. and Ruckert, J.H., 2015, March. Will people keep the secret of a humanoid robot?: Psychological intimacy in hri. In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 173-180). ACM.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 8 (4 May 2018)

Fong, T., Nourbakhsh, I. and Dautenhahn, K., 2003. A survey of socially interactive robots. Robotics and autonomous systems, 42(3-4), pp.143-166.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 9 (11 May 2018)

Turkle, S., 2007. Authenticity in the age of digital companions. Interaction studies, 8(3), pp.501-517.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 10 (18 May 2018)

Calo, M.R., 2011. 12 Robots and Privacy. Robot ethics: The ethical and social implications of robotics, p.187.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 11 (25 May 2018)

Sharkey, A. and Sharkey, N., 2012. Granny and the robots: ethical issues in robot care for the elderly. Ethics and information technology, 14(1), pp.27-40.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 12 (8 Jun 2018)

Wang, L., Rau, P.L.P., Evers, V., Robinson, B.K. and Hinds, P., 2010, March. When in Rome: the role of culture & context in adherence to robot recommendations. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction (pp. 359-366). IEEE Press.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 13 (15 Jun 2018)

Fraune, M.R., Kawakami, S., Sabanovic, S., De Silva, P.R.S. and Okada, M., 2015. Three's company, or a crowd?: The effects of robot number and behavior on HRI in Japan and the USA. In Robotics: Science and Systems.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 14 (22 Jun 2018)

Kehoe, B., Patil, S., Abbeel, P. and Goldberg, K., 2015. A survey of research on cloud robotics and automation. IEEE Transactions on automation science and engineering, 12(2), pp.398-409.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]


Week 15 (29 Jun 2018, ALAMEDA, Pav. Informática III, Room F8)

Zeglin, G., Walsman, A., Herlant, L., Zheng, Z., Guo, Y., Koval, M.C., Lenzo, K., Tay, H.J., Velagapudi, P., Correll, K. and Srinivasa, S.S., 2014, September. HERB's Sure Thing: A rapid drama system for rehearsing and performing live robot theater. In Advanced robotics and its social impacts (ARSO), 2014 IEEE Workshop on (pp. 129-136). IEEE.

Moderators: Kim Baraka and Filipa Correia

[minutes]